The Egyptian security authorities on October 13, 2006, detained 8 members of Muslim Brotherhood from Menofya Governorate, north of Egypt, after they stormed their homes, broke contents of their apartments,

Hassan Al-Banna, who founded Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, has left a lasting ideological legacy, but the movement today bears many differences to the one founded in 1928. On Saturday, members of

 Mohammed Mehdi Akef changed face of underground movement into openly active player on political scene. In almost three years as supreme guide of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Mehdi Akef has

The rising interest in Islamic movements in the West may be fully justified on grounds of national interest. However, there is a creeping danger of neo-Orientalism in the garb of

Straw’s View towards Veiled Women, between, Roy’s Theory and Putnam’s ProphecyIn his book, Globalization of Islam, the French Oliver Roy argues that the Jihad ideology that worries the new Europe

Reporters Without Borders voiced shock at an armed attack on the privately-owned Iraqi TV station Al Shaabiya today that left at least eight employees dead and several wounded. The press

Some may have become things of the past, but the ’isms of the post-Revolutionary era have been instrumental in shaping today’s political, cultural and intellectual debates

Increasing calls for media independence are part of the new political reality in the Arab world; such calls have been particularly strong regarding media coverage of elections. In response, some

Elevated to the presidency in the wake of Anwar Sadat’s assassination, few Egyptians can have predicted in those turbulent times that their then-vice president, Hosni Mubarak, would still be in

Dear sir, I am writing to you regarding the article "The Road to the Muslim Holocaust" by Ghali Hassan dated 11 October, which I came across on your website. While I