A court ruling due within 48 hours may help lawyers oust their syndicate council, Mona El-Nahhas explains

What good is a free media when the preferred recourse is to demagoguery, asks Amr Hamzawy*

In a renewed wave of state repression, security forces raided the house of Muslim Brotherhood leader Ihab Turk arresting him and 4 other MB members who were at his home

All opponents of Egypt's decades-old authoritarian government know that the country's elections are a sham of democracy, but they're divided on how to respond to November's parliamentary elections.

In an interview with Voice of America News, Shadi Hamid discusses the recent announcement of Egypt's al-Ghad Party to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections.

The Muslim Brotherhood, whose English website is shown above, is Egypt's largest opposition group and has developed one of the strongest Web presences in the country.

Wafd Party leader Al-Sayed al-Badawi, announced that he would not run in Egypt 's upcoming parliamentary or presidential elections, stressing that his priorities were to restore the party's former glory.

A recent report pointed to a power struggle inside the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) over nominations for the upcoming People’s Assembly (PA) elections taking place this November.

A recent report from the American human rights organization published by Freedom House has listed Egypt as one of the most repressive countries worldwide.

The misnamed "Ground-Zero Mosque" debate continues with verbal religious attacks from all sides. Responding to claims that Political Islam is the new communism, Zachary Karabell offers a pre-9/11 American view