Last Thursday, I returned to my country, Egypt, after several weeks in the United States on a Freedom House fellowship. I came home full of anxiety. I feared that the

 Egyptian security forces are still harassing people and MB candidates ahead of the Shura Council elections to allow the ruling NDP candidates to unjustly win these elections.  Kafr El Sheikh

The State Security Police in Kafr Al-Zayat, Gharbiya, added more to the Egyptian violations to human rights after a state security officer, Walid Ammar, tortured a Muslim Brotherhood detainee this

The US government appears to have changed its course away from where it stood in November 2003. Then, in a speech at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC,

Egyptian authorities agreed yesterday to license a political party led by a prominent defector from the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) of President Hosni Mubarak. The party affairs committee of

The Islamic Action Front, Jordan’s main political party, on Thursday conceded that its secretary general, Zaki Bani Ershaid, had met with personnel from a US-based democracy expert group as part

The late Palestinian elections took place last year faded away the shades of the type of democracy that United States of America, and to some extent Europe, definitely wishes to

EGYPT ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT Head of state: Muhammad Hosni MubarakHead of government: Ahmed NazifDeath penalty: retentionistInternational Criminal Court: signed At least 18 people were killed and more than 100

The Middle East Christians Association (MECA) has released a statement condemning the Coptic Church of Egypt’s actions surrounding Muslim-Coptic relations. Nader Fawzy, the head of the international organization, wrote on

Asharq Al-Awsat- Dr Salman al Oudah, a prominent Islamic preacher and the General Supervisor of ‘Islam Today’, was banned recently from entering Switzerland by the Swiss authorities. Al-Oudah spoke to