US military unveils heat-ray gun

Fellow Egyptians, if you show up for a demo in the future, and you find the Gestapo standing far away without intervening in the protest, but suddenly you feel you

An Egyptian liberal looks at an Iraq-Egypt parallel

Egyptian authorities arrested more Muslim Brotherhood members yesterday, continuing the regime’s intensified campaign to intimidate and weaken the group. There was a lengthy analysis by Fahmy Howeydi recently in Asharq

The Ideologue

Churchillian it was not. Yet the State of the Union seemed a success if Bush’s purpose was to buy time from Congress to wait and see if his surge of

Journalist Ahmed Ezzuddin Suffers Slipped Disc in Prison

Journalist Ahmed Ezzuddin, the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian Al Shaab newspaper and Kuwaiti Al-Mujtamaa magazine had a slipped disc inside Tora prison . 

Human Rights Organizations Condemn Gov’t Crackdown on Opposition

Eight human rights organizations issued a joint statement in which they condemned the policy of detentions that the Interior Ministry escalated in last period, specially against the Muslim Brotherhood group.Th

Muslims see no conflict between Islamic law and democracy: poll

Muslims worldwide believe Islamic law is compatible with democracy and most admire values championed by the US but doubt Washington is serious about implementing them overseas, according to a poll.

Lebanon’s Islamic Group Lashes out at Opposition, Army on Thursday Incidents

Al-Masri criticized strongly the role of the Lebanese army as it maintained its unjustified negative attitude; it did not open streets and did not try to help citizens to cross

7 MB Behira Members Detained Amid Fresh Security Escalation

The state security forces arrested, on Wednesday, seven persons from the Egyptian governprate of Beheira on charge of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood group.

Helwan University Dismisses MB Students for 2 Academic Yrs

The disciplinary board in the Faculty of Commerce, Helwan University, punished 13 students by dismissing them for two full academic years, and four students for one academic year, and punished

Eng. Al Shater, 36 Others Jailed 15 More Days

Cairo-based Higher State Security Prosecution prolonged, on Wednesday Jan. 24, 2007, provisional detentions on 37 Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including Eng. Khairat Al Shater, the deputy chairman of the group.