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Brotherhood Students Wounded, Arrested At Egyptian University

Egyptian security forces at the University of Fayoum clashed with a number of students from the Muslim brotherhood on Tuesday after the forces chased them down, wounded five of them and arrested three in the process. One of the wounded students is at a local hospital where he sustained a concussion. ..

POMED-SAIS Event on Islamist Political Participation in Turkey and Morocco

POMED and the International Development Program at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) co-sponsored a panel discussion today of recent developments in Turkey and Morocco, focusing on the pressing questions of Islamism and democratization currently facing the Middle East and North Africa...

Is Spreading Democracy in Middle East a Bad Idea?

Ever since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has said that one of its key rationales for overthrowing Saddam Hussein was that an Iraq with a freely chosen, representative government could serve as a model for spreading democracy in the Middle East. ..

Three days on Islam slated for Middlebury

"Islam and Politics in a Globalizing World" is the topic of the 2007 Nicholas R. Clifford Symposium. College officials established the symposium in 1993 to honor the distinguished career of Professor Emeritus Clifford. Clifford was a member of the college’s history department from 1966 through 1993. He also served as vice president for academic affairs on three occasions: 1979-85; 1989; and from 1991-93. A former Middlebury College trustee, Clifford was co-chair of the college’s bicent..

REVOLUTIONARY LESSONS:

compares two examinations of the Palestinian struggle. ..

The POMED Wire, Upcoming Events

Check out POMED’s Event Calendar to see a list of events in the D.C. area relevant to democratic reform, U.S. foreign policy, and the Middle East. Tue, Sep 25, 2007 10:00 Former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto will be giving a presentation on the Political Situation in Pakistan in the Russell Senate Building, MEI President Wendy Chamberlin will moderate. Wed, Sep 26, 2007 9:45 AEI: The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam’s Threat to the West. Lee Harris will present his book, followed..

EVENT: Islamist Political Participation and Democratic Development

Islamist Political Participation and Democratic Development, The Case Studies of Turkey & Morocco ..

The International Religious Freedom Report Part 5: The Muslim Brotherhood

The most hilarious part in his interview was when he said that if we compare between rights given to our Coptic brothers in Egypt, with rights given to Muslims in France or any other western country in general, we will find that situations in Egypt are much better that many other countries...

The Podhoretz Cavalry

President Bush has endured the usual amount of abuse from liberals and leftist extremists. Republicans must expect that. ..

Egyptians Stand For Freedom Of Press In Cairo

Scores of Egyptian intellectuals took to the steps of the Press Syndicate building to protest the recent court decision to imprison four of the country’s leading independent editors. They called on the government to allow freedom of the press...

Has this year’s brotherhood Ramadan banquet been banned?

Earlier: Brotherhood leader El-Arian still in custody... Amnesty worried about brotherhood military trial detainee leader’s health, speaks up about government treatment of the greoup...

Egypt: Worker militancy shows pressing need for political voice

THE EGYPTIAN working class over the last year has jumped into action, coming out in mass strikes, blockading their work-places and more importantly, establishing independent workers’ organisations, set apart from the corrupt General Federation of Trade Unions. ..

Egyptian journalist probed over Mubarak health rumours - Feature

In a country regularly shaken by political paranoia, Egyptian investigators are probing a popular opposition journalist for allegedly spreading "dangerous" rumours about the health of President Hosny Mubarak which have gripped the nation in recent weeks...

Independent newspaper editor to be tried for reporting rumours about president’s health

Reporters Without Borders condemns the charges that state security prosecutors yesterday brought against Al-Dustour editor Ibrahim Issa for publishing articles referring to rumours about President Hosni Mubarak’s health. Issa was accused of “spreading false reports likely to disturb public security and besmirch the country’s reputation.”..

Examining the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood at NORTHCOM

Last week I was invited to Colorado Springs, Colorado to deliver a lecture on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt at the USNORTHCOM headquarters located on Peterson Air Force Base. My lecture was based on an academic paper (PDF) I delivered earlier this year at the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy’s 8th Annual Conference. The program itself was divided into a 45-minute lecture followed by 45 minutes of questions and answers...

Egypt Renews Crackdown on Islamic Opposition

The Egyptian government has renewed a crackdown on suspected members and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned Islamic organization that has long been the main opposition movement in the country. Some say the crackdown is a legitimate response to a security threat; others say it is simply to stifle dissent. VOA’s Sonja Pace reports from our Middle East bureau in Cairo...

CSID EMAIL BULLETIN

EVENTS: 1. Preaching Hatred in America ,2. Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the OIC on “The Role of the Media in West-Islam Relations” - Sept. 21, 3. My Trip to Al-Qaeda - by Lawrence Wright - Sept. 22-24..

US-backed attempts to weaken Hamas failing

On August 28, the Palestinian Authority (PA) “caretaker” government headed by Salam Fayyad announced that it would outlaw 103 charitable societies in the Israeli occupied West Bank. Fayyad, who was appointed on June 15 as PA prime minister by PA President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah party after Abbas dismissed the elected government of PM Ismail Haniyeh of the Hamas party, told Palestinian media these charities, most of them are affiliated with Hamas, had committed administrative and fi..

Hide Your Cell Phone: Digital Activism is Criminalized in Egypt

In June, Egyptian blogger Abdel Monem Mahmoud was released after spending 46 days in prison on charges of belonging to an illegal organization, creating and possessing images destructive to public order, organizing secret meetings with the aim of disturbing public order...

Apples and Oranges

In a recent article, Dr. Abdel Moneim Said, director of Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, imagines how things would look like if the Muslim Brotherhood would run the country...