Mohammad El-Sabbagh wanted nothing to do with the violent clashes that erupted between police and the general public on the final day of parliamentary elections in Egypt last Wednesday.

More than 200 opposition supporters protested here yesterday against what they said were rigged parliamentary elections in which President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling party won some three quarters of the seats.

In The Name of Allah The Most Beneficent the Most Merciful On the Occasion of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights Day The Muslim Brotherhood’s Statement " Together Against Torture."

Embracing The Brotherhood     Rami G. Khouri is editor at large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune. The moment of

Partial results from Egypt’s month-long parliamentary elections reveal large gains for the powerful but banned Muslim Brotherhood opposition movement; however, the ruling National Democratic Party retains a two-thirds majority.

Is the Egyptian government at war with its people?      When riot police point rifles loaded with rubber bullets at Egyptians trying to vote we have to ask: Is the Egyptian

Egypt completed the final round of balloting in legislative elections on December 7. The first round of polling took place on November 9; all told 5,414 candidates vied for 444

The Brotherhood is coming!   Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood achieved spectacular gains in the parliamentary elections. This success was more than they could have hoped for despite the best efforts of

Jihad or Ballot-Box?        George W. Bush’s policy of encouraging democracy in the Middle East has hit a bump in the road in the last few weeks. Elections to the Egyptian People’s

A war and its fearsome consequences: How the world has changed post-Iraq President Bush said yesterday that ’the year 2005 will be a turning point in the history of freedom’.