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MB's coming task

"The Brotherhood believes in gradual reform which can be achieved only through peaceful and constitutional struggle based on persuasion and dialogue."..

Conservative stranglehold

The name of the Muslim Brotherhood's new supreme guide is due to be announced on Saturday...

Education ministers face down critics

Yosri El-Gamal and Hani Hilal, the ministers of education and higher education, faced a torrent of interpellations submitted by nine opposition and independent MPs on Saturday...

Hawkish coup

Conservative members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood swept the board in the outlawed group's internal elections on Monday in what many viewed as an internal Brotherhood coup...

Endless crisis?

Dozens of engineers gathered on Monday noon in front of the Cairo Southern Court in Bab Al-Khalq calling for a lifting of the 14-year-long judicial sequestration imposed upon their syndicate...

Back to the future

It would be no exaggeration to say that the resignation of the Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) supreme guide (or more accurately his delegation of his responsibilities to his deputy) has ushered in the worst leadership crisis the Islamist organisation has experienced in over half a century. The last time it seemed in such disarray was during the leadership of the second supreme guide, Hassan El-Hodeibi, during the confrontation between the MB and the Nasserist regime in 1954. That crisis ended with the dismissal or departure of a large number of MB leaders, most of them from the Al-Azhar contingent...

On the brink of implosion

What became of the Arab state? In one way or another, argues Khalil El-Anani*, it has managed not just to fail, but to fail miserably..

What Islam is ?

Dalia Mogahed talks about bridging the gap between the US and the Muslim world..

In spite of Islam

Moataz-Bellah Abdel-Fattah explains why democracy is severely lacking in Muslim-majority countries even though its principles are deeply-rooted in the basic tenets of Islam..

Don’t exploit the martyr

The banner headline of the weekly independent Al-Fagr read, ’The martyr of Nazi Germany; German police seized Marwa’s personal copy of the Quran to use as evidence that she is a member of Al-Qaeda and that she is a suspected terrorist; psychiatrist Ahmed Okasha urges Marwa’s parents to tell her son that his mother went to God and that she is now sleeping there’. Al-Fagr published several photos of El-Sherbini while playing with her son Mustafa in a city playground in Dresden where Axel..

Chinese whispers

The widely debated step of dissolving parliament might prove unlikely despite the latest police crackdown on the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood...

Seize the day

Obama has opened the door, if but a little, to Islamist movements in the Arab world. The question now is if they have the foresight to walk through it..

’The bottom line’

John Esposito tells Amira Howeidy now that Barack Obama is president of the United States and not a hopeful candidate he needs to move forward, get new faces into his administration and deliver..

Jihadist revisions

What can be learned from the state’s confrontation with violent Islamist movements in the 1980s and 90s? ..

The war on prices

On Sunday, the government of Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif fell under heavy parliamentary fire. As many as 11 opposition and independent MPs launched a scathing attack against the Nazif government, alleging that its policies are always designed to serve the business elite loyal to the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP). As a result, asserted MPs mostly belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group and to leftist parties, not a single day goes by in Egypt without demonstrations, s..

A tale of two expectations

Optimists and pessimists alike on the future of the Middle East alongside Obama have little to go on yet..

Is business a liberalising force?

The ascendance of a business class in other parts of the world has fostered democracy. Can the same happen in the Arab world..

Silencing Dissent

Whenever an Arab voice is raised calling for a critical assessment of the tactical choices and practices of Hamas and for an examination of the extent of its responsibility for the death and destruction rained on Gaza during the Israeli offensive it is drowned by the outcries of the manufacturers of resistance and rejectionist narratives, swamped by a barrage of insinuations regarding loyalties and motives. As varied as these responses are in tone, which ranges from calm and reasoned t..

Between ideology and tactics

There is another tactical dilemma Islamists face when participating in the political process. How many candidates should they field at any one time? Theoretically, Islamists like other opposition parties, want to gain the greatest number of seats possible in an assembly. However, the record of contemporary Arab history offers sobering advice. The electoral victory of the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria in 1991 and the Hamas victory in Gaza and the West Bank in 2006 cautions Islamist..

A reluctant Middle East

As far as Washington is concerned there are four aspects to the crisis in the Middle East. Firstly, it is exacting an enormous political price -- especially the US military presence in Iraq -- in terms of military expenditure, loss of life and the daily attrition on the US army...