For much of its 80-year history, the Muslim Brotherhood's very name symbolized promotion of a violent, anti-western movement bent on strict imposition of Islamic law. Much of the first generation

The end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first saw a dissemination of the Internet as a center of communication, information, entertainment and commerce. The spread of

The Muslim Brotherhoob bloc in Gharbeya governorate organized a mass conference, on 29.10.09 at the Doctors Syndicate headquarters in Gharbeya, in solidarity with al-Aqsa under the title “al-Aqsa is our

Mr. Mohamed Mahdi Akef, Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, has ascertained that the Israeli occupation authority’s (IOA) attempts to set fire on the blessed precincts of al-Aqsa Mosque is a

Few academics attain the kind of status that Juan Cole enjoys today. Cole's award-winning blog Informed Comment is a necessary daily stop for any serious student of the Middle East;

Bigotry is one of the most serious matters that can easily sow division and enmity and set the fire of war within societies and even among members of the same

It is appropriate to adopt caution, and to beware making hasty analysis, when it comes to passing judgment on problematic issues, whose dimensions, meanings and significance are unclear: One such

Peace is holy, war is not. Nevertheless, holy war is today a main theme in the Western media. Wrongly seen by Westerners as an Islamic innovation, for Muslims it is

Political guests and researchers convened in Cairo to discuss the Al-Qaeda Movement on September 30. The seminar was attended by a number of researchers interested in studying the Islamic movements

Wahhabism and the Muslim Brotherhood are two distinct forms of Sunni Islamism. They have separate histories and separate worldviews. In reality they are not even the same type of movement.