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US scholar calls on Mubarak to end unjustified attacks on students

A letter sent to President Mubarak by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America a major American academic association devoted to Middle East studies has indicated that it

Egypt: The new opposition and the ElBaradei factor

A tentative political alliance threatens to change the electoral calculus in the 2011 elections but the group is unwilling to announce its intentions without a guarantee of fair polls.

The Al-Dostour crisis

Al-Dostour’s recently dismissed chief editor, Ibrahim Eissa, was not fired due to ordinary disputes over administrative or editorial issues. The decision to remove Eissa was without a doubt political.

Activist abducted while collecting signatures for reform

State security forces abducted, activist Abdullah al-Saadawi, from the Imbaba district in Cairo while he was collecting signatures during door knocking in support of the chartered seven demands for reform.

The coming Cairo autumn

Political openings in Egypt over the last 30 years have come in waves. Swelling and then retreating, they have had little permanence.

President Mubarak warns against mixing religion with politics

President Mubarak’s annual October 6 speech addressed numerous issues concerning both regional and domestic topics.

How the Wafd Party let us down

I write this article not as the leader of an opposition party but as an Egyptian citizen concerned about my country’s affairs and as a researcher who has studied Egypt’s

MB and NAC’s online petition 7 demands for change, approaches 1, 000,000 signatures target

The number of signatures collected by the Muslim Brotherhood's online campaign "Seven demands for reform," launched by Chairman Dr. Mohamed Badie and adopted by Egypt's Opposition political powers, has so

ElBaradei: Differences with MB don’t preclude sharing goals

In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei , the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a leading democracy advocate defended his alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood in an interview

Egypt: What Will Victory Cost NDP?

In a new article at Middle East Report and Information Project, Barnard College Professor Mona El-Ghobashy explains that recent protests in Egypt are a form social bargaining between the Egyptian