Extensive efforts are being made, at the intellectual level, to place democracy and stability at opposite poles. There is no stability under democratic conditions, and no democracy before securing stability.

Many years ago, a frustrated Jordanian leftist and Christian political activist told me that he was ready to join the Islamic Action Front.   The Muslim Brotherhood’s political party, he said,

Amidst the first signs of change, longing competes with mistrust of Western democracy Early rumblings: Students of Egypt’s Al Azhar university call for more freedom and the ending of the

THE WILL to silence free speech is a defining trait of autocratic and dictatorial regimes. The rulers of such states do not merely fear the contagion of dissent, they become

An Egyptian military court jailed, on Sunday, policeman Mohamed Khalaf Hassan Ibrahim for 6 months, because he refused to guard the embassy of Israel in a Giza residential building. The policeman, 38

Damu prison administration sent accountant Mostafa Atiya, a Muslim Brotherhood detainee in Al Fayyum, west of Cairo, to the public hospital, after he suffered a heart attack; he received the

Friendly dictators have nothing to fear. The Bush administration is back to its old ways in the Middle East. So much for all the noise about democracy, reform, and good

In an article that surprised many, the Kuwaiti Islamist writer Abdullah al Nafisi called upon the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to disband because it has become a burden upon Islam, asking

This interviews has been conducted by fellow journalist Mohamed Al-Behery of the Egyptian Al Wafd newspaper with the Egyptian legal expert, Dr. Ibrahim Darwish, in which he confirmed that the

The Islah movement welcomes the AU decision of sending AU peacekeeping forces to Somalia. Somali Islah (reform) movement, the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot in Somalia, welcomed the African Union decision of sending