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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.

Is Gamal Mubarak the best hope for Egyptian democracy?

Egypt's opposition forces and Western advocates of democracy promotion all seem to agree on one thing: Gamal Mubarak should not be allowed to succeed his father Hosni Mubarak as President

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.

Egyptian Democracy Doesn’t Need Gamal Mubarak

In a recent article for the Foreign Policy Middle East Channel, Tarek Masoud makes the provocative claim that a rigged succession from President Hosni Mubarak to his son Gamal may

Carnegie Report tries to make sense of Egypt’s electoral process

A new guide issued by The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace provides background and analysis to Egypt’s upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections.

Finding Meaning in the Egyptian Elections

It would be easy to dismiss Egypt’s November 29 parliamentary elections as just one more chapter in Egypt’s rather sad recent electoral history.

MB MP: We do not call for revolutions and believe only in peaceful change

In his statement to Ikhwanweb, Saleh ascertained that the MB does not believe in revolutions or violence, in fact they support only peaceful and legal channels for change to combat

Security harasses opposition students days before Students’ elections

Government universities have announced that Thursday October 7 will be the beginning of nominations for the Student’s body elections in Egypt. The elections are scheduled to take place October 18

Egyptians describe elections as rigged and fraud

According to the Middle East Report Information Project (MERIP), reports reveal that Egyptians believe that election results are fabricated and rigged with no integrity during elections.A recent report indicates that

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