Moderate Islamists

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The 500 most influential Muslims of the world?

The Amman, Jordan-based Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in collaboration with the Prince Alwaleed BinTalal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Georgetown University, Washington DC, has issued a list of

Sawasya: Increased discrimination against USA’s Muslim Systematic

The Sawasya Centre for human rights and anti-discrimination in a recent study stressed that racial discriminations against U.S. Muslims are rising.

US should engage Islamists to push democracy in Arab world, says expert

The US should engage with Islamist groups in the Arab world if it is serious about promoting democracy in the region, says Shadi Hamid, deputy director of the Brookings Doha

Islamist Politics at MESA

Greetings from the 2009 annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, where I’ve had the pleasure of attending four panels so far, all of which were interesting.

Political analysts: Muslim Brotherhood suitable model of moderate Islamists.

Dr Foad Alsaeed researcher at the National Research Centre asserted in a conference that the Muslim Brotherhood Movement and the Turkish Adala Party are an excellent example of moderate practicing

Moderate Arab Islamists struggle to steer a democratic course

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

Crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood students deepens.

In a new round of arbitrary arrests, the Egyptian government has expanded its crackdown against members of the Muslim Brotherhood students. This time aiming its measures against 2 Azhar students

The Internet Islamist Politics in Jordan, Morocco, and Egypt

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

Tariq Mehanna: Obama’s Latest Muslim Target

Post-9/11, Muslims have been victimized, vilified, and persecuted for their faith, ethnicity, prominence, activism, and charity. They've been targeted, hunted down, rounded up, held in detention, kept in isolation, denied

Egypt’s Brotherhood is knocking

Reporting from Cairo - He doesn't seem a radical or a troublemaker, but to the Egyptian government, Abdel Fattah Rizk, a surgeon with a graying mustache and hands pink from