A crackdown on Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has put the movement center stage as the government yields to demands for reform, but the conflict between the state and the Islamists is

Justice Ahmed Mekki, one of the chief whistleblowers of the alleged widespread and well-reported vote-rigging that marred, respectively, Egypt’s September and November 2005 presidential and parliamentary elections, vowed Wednesday to

Are US-Egyptian relations about to assume a new direction, asks David Dumke in Washington The recommendation of legislation by a powerful US congressional committee which, for the first time since

Post-prison roads: Situation of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience in Syria after Being Released from Custody Since the creation of authority and the appearance of active political and social

 The Bush administration is quietly weighing the prospect of reaching out to the party that founded modern political Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood. Still in its early stages and below the

Mansoua prosecution ordered detention of several Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members prolonged on charge of belonging to the Egyptian moderate group and supporting its candidates in the elections, said MB lawyer

From ancient times to 1922 the lands to the east of the Jordan River were culturally and politically united with the lands to the west of the river. Muslims conquered

Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. It is indeed an honor for me to share my views about religion and democracy tonight. There has not been any other time in the

Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Distinguished Senior Fellow, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, and Senior Associate, St Anthonys, Oxford University

Saad Eddin Ibrahim is an unlikely optimist about the future of democracy in the Islamic world. The sociologist spent nearly three years in the courts and prisons of his native