Egypt’s upcoming public referendum vote on extensive constitutional amendments has sparked a political battle between President Mubarak’s government and Egypt’s largest opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood. Carnegie experts have released

The Egyptian community in Vienna demonstrated on Friday at president Mubarak’s repressive constitutional amendments that his NDP parliamentarians approved, widening the gap between this autocratic regime and all Egyptians.  Many members

The Bush Administration has painted itself in a narrow corner in the Middle East, indeed in the entire Muslim world,...

The Egyptian government has warned critics of the constitutional referendum scheduled for Monday not to stage any protests on the day, the Information Ministry said Wednesday. In a statement published

On December 26, 2006, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak proposed a package of amendments to the Egyptian constitution with the purported aim of introducing more democratic freedom into Egypt’s sclerotic political

On June 20, 2005, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stepped onto the arabesque campus of the American University in Cairo, built around a former pasha’s palace, and delivered a call

In a meeting held yesterday, a number of human rights and media organisations, and bloggers agreed to start a defence campaign for freedom of expression and to intercept attempts to

At a joint panel of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) today in Washington, regional experts expressed concern over

I still do not have full information, but it seems around 10:30am Central Security Forces have stormed the neighborhood of Qale’t el-Kabsh in Sayyeda Zeinab, and clashed with the citizens,

Yusuf Islam, the man who was once Cat Stevens, talks about his first pop album for almost three decades, about metamorphosis and about happiness.