Morocco sees the rise of ’acceptable’ Islamist party

Lahcen Daoudi is a curious kind of Islamist. A top leader in Morocco’s Party of Justice and Development, a legal Islamist movement emerging as a political force, he fights off

Muslim Brotherhood Challenges Ban on Rallies

Muslim Brotherhood’s leader Mohammed Mahdi Akef said on Wednesday his organisation "will organise new public demonstrations despite the ban issued by the [Egypt’s] ministry of interior."

MB poll: Majority thinks Brotherhood is moderate

I came across this unusual poll on the Muslim Brotherhood English-language website: Obviously this is not representative of anything, but I find it interesting that the MB would ask this

Islam and Democracy Conference

For two days, the seventh conference for Islamic and democratic studies was held in Washington D.C., it was attended by several American university professors and students of politics and human

Interview With Zaki Bin Arshid Secretary of the ILF in Jordan

Excerpt of an interview with the new Secretary General of the Islamic Labor Front Party (ILF), the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan We share views with the

A Stand to Support The Judges on Thursday May 25th

As a way to protest on the unjust way, the honored judges were treated with because they refused to submit to the government and approve the forging actions during elections

Journalist arrested for taking photos without permission

Reporters Without Borders today called for the release of Hamada Abdul Latif, the correspondent of the independent weekly Al Karama in the province of El-Dakahleya, who was arrested on 21

Al-Katatny to Ikhwanweb : Nazif’s Statements are Unconstitutional

The Egyptian prime minister statements that Muslim Brotherhood (MB) deputies will not be allowed to act in parliament as Muslim Brothers and that any succes

Political Parties in Egypt

Egypt’s political parties did not evolve from within society, but rather as tools within the arena of political power, which is under the complete control of the individual ruler. The

Davos Forum and Support for Arab Dictatorships

On the occasion of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East (Davos), Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif made statements in which they considered that