When the election for a new parliament began Nov. 9, Egypt’s secular opposition and democracy advocates in Washington hoped the results would produce a more open system in which political

ARABESQUE: A Thinly-Veiled Display of "Democracy" The Egyptian government has long made it clear that its citizens should be happy with a limited, shall we say "symbolic", political participation.  All

Hamas coordinates with ’Brotherhood’           Hamas and Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood organization, which have historical ties, have begun coordinating their moves ahead of next month’s parliamentary elections in the Palestinian Authority,

Cold War, Holy Warrior News: Ike was president. Washington was desperate for Arab allies. Enter an Islamist ideologue with an invitation to the White House and a plan for global

Devil’s Game News: A reporter tells the story of how U.S. policies in the Middle East spurred the rise of Islamic

 When Iraqis swarmed to the polls last week to cast ballots in parliamentary elections, the Bush administration hailed a democratic victory in a region creaking under the weight of corruption,

Islamism - The Tsunami of the future? ( The Zionist, MideastWeb)In almost every country in the Middle East, Islamist parties seem to be creeping ever closer to power, despite, or

Mubarak sends message to Egypt’s Islamists  Egyptian leader stresses his firm commitment to respecting precedence of citizenship over religion. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sent a thinly-veiled message to the Muslim

The Egyptian President, Muhammad Mubark, promised to perform numerous political and legislative reforms. Acknowledging vote irregularities, he added that these negative aspects come under the general designed plan of political,

The List of Fraud-Committing Judges The Egyptian Bar Association released a list of judiciary personas who were involved in vote fraud in the course of the outgoing parliamentary polls. The list