The first round of the Egyptian Shura Council midterm elections started today morning, on Monday, June, 11, 2007, amid a heavy security presence in election committees of constituencies in which

President Bush waxed eloquent about democracy in Prague’s majestic Czernin Palace last week, pledging to the assembled dissidents from 17 countries that the United States "will never excuse your oppressors"

The Supreme Administrative Court , headed by judge Al Sayed Nofal, issued a landmark ruling rejecting a request by the Election Committee (EC) to exclude 8 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) candidates from

Sayyed Hassan Al Banna [Hassan al Banna was born in 1906 in Egypt into a family of scholars. In 1928, he formed Ikhwan al Muslimeen (the Muslim Brotherhood organization). This

The Role of Muslim Women in an Islamic Society and the stand of the Muslim Brotherhood regarding Womens’ rights to vote,be elected, occupy public and governmental posts, and work in

The Muslim Brotherhood is the largest Islamic group in the world. It exists in more than 80 countries. It is also one of the most important groups that have adopted

The civilizational defeat of Arabs and Muslims, especially after the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate, had a deep effect on the spirits of many Muslim preachers and reformers, like Gamal

The Arab and Muslim worlds currently witness continuous and persistent attempts aiming at imposing a change from the outside. These attempts take the form of force sometimes and strong pressures

Administrative Justice Suspends Elections in 3 Monofiya, Beheira Constituencies   Hours before the kickoff of the Egyptian Shura Council midterm elections, the State Court issued a ruling of stopping elections in

Baheyya.blogspot, An Egyptian Voice that Soared High, Then Disappeared !!!Well-known Egyptian journalist, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, was a regular reader of baheyya.blogspot’s analyses that have been anatomizing the political and cultural