Cairo conference: Anti-imperialists, Islamists and pan-Arab leftists gather in Egypt

The Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation and other human rights groups will host a protest at the Egyptian embassy as part of the ....

The US Senate has joined the House of Representatives in approving legislation that would withdraw combat troops from Iraq over the next 11 months - a plan certain to be

The astonishing electoral success of Hamas in Palestine last year sent shock waves around the Middle East, and silenced those commentators who argued that political Islam was burning itself out.

In  March, the RAND Corporation issued a 217-page report titled "Building Moderate Muslim Networks

Forty top members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder] went before a secret military court in Egypt [JURIST news archive] Thursday on c

Is the US softening its stance towards the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood? Gihan Shahine digs into the controversy surrounding the first known meeting between the US and the group since 9/11

As most readers of this website will know, the BBC is very concerned for the safety of our correspondent Alan Johnston who was abducted in Gaza on 12 March. More

Because most conference participants face repressive conditions in their homelands, individual’s names are omitted

Mohamed Abu Roman, one of the smartest Jordanian writers on Islamist issues, turns his attention today to Hamas Iraq. Like me, Abu Roman places the appearance of Hamas Iraq directly