The Muslim Brotherhood’s Leader, Muhammad Akef, asserted that the group gains its legitimacy from the Egyptian people, adding the government-owned media intends to hide the group’s parliamentary achievements.

On Sunday, the Judges’ Union held an emergency meeting to discuss the government insistence not to preview the union with amendments made by the official High Judiciary Council on the

Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif urges the world to respect the results of the Palestinian election, and he defends his government’s handling of the Ayman Nour case.

‘It is truly the first peaceful change of power of such fundamental proportions in the Arab history’ HAMAS’S stunning Palestinian election victory this week signals that democratic change is possible

The Muslim Brotherhood’s MPs withdrew from today’s parliamentary session protesting the Parliament Chairman’s unjustified decision of ejecting Mustafa Muhammad Mustafa of the Brotherhood, after insisting in discussing the status of

For the first time, the government admitted, in an official account submitted to the parliament, torturing accused and imprisoned convicts. Hassan Hamdy, a Muslim Brotherhood’s MP, tabled a question in

Opposition Islamist lawmakers walked out of Egypt’s parliament on Saturday to protest at the expulsion of a fellow MP who had criticised the government for letting a French warship through

International donors threatened to withdraw millions of dollars in aid from the Palestinian Authority today unless Hamas renounces terrorism after its stunning victory in parliamentary elections. The United States said

Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt’s Nobel Prize-winning author, is seeking   permission from the country’s highest Islamic authorities to publish   one of his most controversial novels, a move which has staggered   friends and

I’ve been recalling an editorial from the Chinese People’s Daily   Online that I read last month. It suggested that while many   westerners trumpet the concepts of "freedom and democracy" as