State security forces in Sharqeya arrested 5 Muslim Brotherhood leaders after the Friday prayers today.

As Egypt moves towards its parliamentary elections in November, each day brings fresh evidence of the profound problems now endemic in our political life.

The European Commission had earlier accused the government of stifling public debate over the proposals, while backing Ankara's attempt to reorganise the judiciary.

Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has called for a boycott of parliamentary elections unless President Hosni Mubarak's government makes reforms. That would be a mistake.

Why the Egyptian government's propaganda version of CSI revealed more about its own paranoia than about its enemies.

In an unprecedented move, the governing National Democratic Party has delayed nomination of its parliamentary candidates to 29 September.

Egypt's most serious presidential challenger has accused President Hosni Mubarak's government of posting Facebook photos of his daughter in a swimsuit in an attempt to discredit him, a local newspaper

Officials from Jordan 's Muslim Brotherhood offshoot the Islamic Action Front met with the National Unity Party to discuss an imminent unified boycott of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections.

A television series can cause uproar, raise a debate or start a dispute that would require the intervention of courts of law to be settled.

When Wahid Hamid announced that he was writing a television serial about the organisation of Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimoun (the Muslim Brothers) over a year ago, there was much hubbub all across