The great showing of the Muslim Brotherhood in the last parliamentary vote set a new chapter for the group whose history can be divided into three phases:1-     The era of

The Brotherhood actually are as close to modernist liberals as anyone in the spectrum of Egyptian politics will come. They resemble a European party of Christian Democrats. Yes, they emphasize

Egyptian blogger Big Pharaoh gave me an insider’s tour of Cairo and the ghastly political situation facing his country today. He took me down 26 of July Street on foot

IN last month’s Saudi Arabian municipal elections, the nation’s first experiment in real democracy, many were worried because Islamic activists dominated their secular rivals. Indeed, we have seen a similar

THE NEWS from Egypt this week was more of the same: On Wednesday, the final, chaotic day of nationwide parliamentary elections, police shot rubber bullets and tear gas at crowds

On Tuesday, 70 of Egyptian pharmacists staged an open sit-in in the headquarters of el-Dakahlya syndicate in solidarity with their colleagues that were put under arrest in the course of

Israel has become concerned over the rising power of the Islamic opposition in Egypt. Israeli officials have concluded that the gains achieved by the Muslim Brotherhood in parliamentary elections in

On Sunday, the Muslim Brotherhood’s representative of Ashmon City, Ashraf Bader el-Dean, paid a visit to Ashmon Coptic Orthodox Church where he met public Coptic figures along with the church

’We take nobody’s permission’The Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide Mohamed Mahdi Akef tells Amira Howeidy the group will not change tactics, and does not trust the US "So do you refer

In Egypt, the twilight of an era The headline of the state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram described December 7, the last day of voting in Egypt’s month-long, three-stage parliamentary election, as "the