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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.

Poets and political activists: the case of Liu Xiaobo

Paul J. Balles considers the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award Chinese dissident and poet Liu Xiaobo the Nobel Peace Prize by looking at the qualities that are common to

Jordan: MB offshoot members released without charge

35 members mainly students, of the Muslim brotherhood offshoot the Islamic Action Front in Jordan were released by police after being detained following their call to boycott next month's parliamentary

Opposition trends condemn MB arrests

National political opposition in the Daqahleya governorate denounced the unjust arbitrary arrest of 10 Muslim Brotherhood members hours after the group’s chairman announced it would take part in the elections.

Cultural resistance: Gilad Atzmon in conversation with British music icon Robert Wyatt

Gilad Atzmon talks to legendary British jazz icon Robert Wyatt about music and “people power” as facilitators of change, support for the Palestinian cause and the fear of democracy and

Arab Doctors Union discuss Nile ‘s sharing agreement

The seminar comes in the light of the negative repercussions of the agreement signed by 4 of the Nile Basin countries without the notable presence of Egypt to regulate water

MP’s anticipate verdict for Emergency Law extension

Politicians will assemble in parliament to hear the government's final verdict regarding the extension of the Emergency Law which is set to expire May 31st.

Rashwan: Amendments to electoral districts will benefit ruling party

"New amendments did not take into account the voter's proportional representation as they equated between low population constituencies and high population ones, which proves the imbalance in the constitutional amendments.

Parliamentarians and politicians at the MB parliamentary bloc’s workshop to shape Egypt’s upcoming polls

Dr. Saad el-Katatni, member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Executive Bureau and head of the MB parliamentary bloc, has emphasized that Egypt's unfortunate political stalemate, endless social and economic problems and

The unpolitician

The genius of Mubarakism is that it remains anti-political.