Has anyone watched the English-language version of Al Jazeera lately? The Qatar-based Arab TV channel’s eclectic internationalism—a feast of vivid, pathbreaking coverage from all continents—is a rebuke to the dire

Complete dissatisfaction was illustrated in the tones of Mohamed Morsy member of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Executive Bureau who voiced his opinion on the upcoming visit of Israel's former Prime

Within a given country, the make-up of the blogging cluster turned out to be quite varied. The Egyptian cluster, for example, "is characterized by secular reformist bloggers" on one hand,

Reflecting on recent trends in the Middle East, what do you see as the most important objectives for U.S. policy overall in the region? What are the issues and areas

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In the first high-profile meeting between top Sunni and Shiite scholars, Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the head of Iran’s influential Expediency

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The Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc met on Wednesday November 22, 2006, with a European Union (EU) parliament delegation at the bloc’s headquarters at Manial el Roda, Cairo.