The Arab political scene is a multi-layered reality; at times a complex of contradictory dynamics, with no easy answers, writes Amr Hamzawy* Lebanese in their thousands, top, took to the

Human rights cannot be regional or selective: Guantanamo, Belmarsh, Laz Oghli and Facility 1391 stand or fall together The story of Maajid Nawaz, Ian Nisbet and Reza Pankhurst, the three

A recent wave of arrests of members of the Muslim Brotherhood party by Egyptian security officers reflect a shift in strategy towards the outlawed Egyptian group. More than 20 members

State security forces continued its vicious campaign against Muslim Brotherhood activists and sympathizers. Twenty people from all walks of life have been arrested, so far, in another episode of oppression

Kamal Habeeb, the coordinator of the National Initiative for the Release of Political Prisoners, stressed that the initiative persists in bringing up the issue of detainees to the Egyptian political

March 6, 2006 EGYPT Former housing minister withdraws defamation complaint against journalists Reporters Without Borders notes the decision of the former housing minister, Mohamed Soliman to withdraw 37 defamation complaints that he had

Egyptian security forces have rounded up a number of Muslim Brotherhood members after briefly banning the Islamist party’s mouthpiece publication, a spokesman for the Islamist movement said Wednesday. In another

 Vice President Dick Cheney delivers his remarks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Tuesday. (AP)   Vice President Dick Cheney told an influential pro-Israel group Tuesday that the United

Egyptian police detained four more members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday and a senior member of the Islamic group said the authorities had closed down a weekly newspaper

Today, the Parliament discusses the urgent question lodged by the Muslim Brotherhood’s MP Muhssen Rady concerning the suspension of Afaq Arabia weekly which articulates the Brotherhood’s views. The pretext of