In a report released March 23, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace outlined contradictions between the democratic appearance and authoritarian reality of the current constitutional amendments and analyzed the Mubarak

Disheartened by `democracy project,’ Arab Muslims seek new source of hopeFor prominent Syrian career woman Luna Rajab, the moment of truth came last Ramadan at an evening social gathering of

The Islamic Action Front Party (IAF) decided to take part in the coming Municipal elections scheduled to be held next summer, said Rahil Al Ghraeba the IAF press spokesman. The IAF’s

Families of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) detainees at Burj Al-Arab prison complain of the bad conditions which they face while visiting their loved ones behind bars. The road to the

The sit-in organized by Kefaya started Sunday,3/25,07, at the press syndicate continued under siege until late Monday. After

The official results of the Egyptian referendum have been announced:  27.1% participation, 75.9% voting yes.  Al-Ahram, the official mouthpiece of the Egyptian regime (it used to be "semi-official" until a

What would George W. Bush and Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) do without a good old "Islamist threat" to lean on? Here’s a stupid question: is the "Arab World" Islamist? Is it

I have been doing some research on the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimeen) for some time and am still a little bit unsure about whether to classify them as a moderate

Here’s a video of government officials in Belqas, stuffing ballots in yesterday’s glorious referendum… Also, the Sandmonkey called in to say he was so excited about the carnival of democracy

The Higher State Security Prosecution in Cairo released sheikh Azmi Ahmed Abdul Tawwab on 100 pounds bail. Sheikh Azmi, a Muslim Brotherhood detainee in Al Fayyum, appeared before the prosecution on