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Surani: Goldstone’s report enjoys implementation mechanisms

Raji Al-Surani, the head of the Palestinian center for human rights, stated Wednesday that the new thing which sets Goldstone’s report apart is its talk about specific implementation mechanisms for the first time in the UN history...

UNGA to discuss Goldstone report on Wednesday

The UN General Assembly is to hold a session on Wednesday 4/11 to discuss the Goldstone report that was tabled by a UN fact finding mission on Israel's war crimes during its war on Gaza...

Journalists demand rescheduling of Syndicates Elections.

Journalists unite objecting to the date set by the Judiciary for the Press Syndicate's elections. The date set coincides with the Adha Eid where many journalists will still be performing the Hajj rituals...

The Future of the Muslim Brotherhood

In an exclusive interview with The Majalla, Mahdi Akef, General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood admits that he is under great pressure inside the Brotherhood to go back on his decision to step down. Akef, who is over eighty, refused to name the most prominent candidates nominated to succeed him, stressing that it is all up to the World Shura Council of the Muslim Brotherhood...

Egypt's Relationship With The US Is On An Upswing Following US President Barack Obama's Speech In Cairo

Egypt’s relationship with the US is on an upswing following US President Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo on June 4 and President Hosni Mubarak’s subsequent trip to Washington, his first in five years...

A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties

The following essay represents, in my opinion, the accurate and detailed plan of the present Zionist regime (of Sharon and Eitan) for the Middle East which is based on the division of the whole area into small states, and the dissolution of allthe existing Arab states...

Schisms within the Jordanian MB

Writing in The Daily Star, Oraib Al-Rantawi describes the current internecine conflict within Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood over relations with Hamas...

Egypt Brotherhood calls on government, rebels to stop fighting

Egypt's Brotherhood has called on the government and the Houthi rebels to stop the fighting in northern Yemen and urged them to provide safe routes to help relief agencies to reach the affected people...

Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan: Hamas in Ascendance by Hassan Barari

Jordan's MB has always been divided ideologically between hawks and doves, a division that historically has benefited and strengthened the MB. The doves -- mainly East Bankers -- served as both the movement's leaders and as a cushion that insulated the regime from the organization's more radical base. Until recently, Jordanians of Palestinian origin never filled leadership positions...

In Re: [Mona Eltahawy] A Book Burner for Unesco?

After studying the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood, I have the impression that it encompasses two somewhat different currents: Westernizing Islamic modernists and Salafist reformers, who want to go back to primary Islamic principles in order to find an Islamic path to modernization...

Egypt: Blogging Farouk Hosni’s Defeat

Egypt's Culture Minister Farouk Hosni has kept bloggers busy over the previous few days. His failed bid to secure a seat at the helm of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has polarised the blogosphere, with some even cooking up conspiracy theories to justify his defeat...

Bouthaina Shaaban: The Ugly face of my Homeland

My homeland : a place I never lived in, a place I have visited three times as child each time no more than 3 weeks...

Muslims Widely Seen As Facing Discrimination

Eight years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Americans see Muslims as facing more discrimination inside the U.S. than other major religious groups...

"Enough is Enough: A Rebuttal"

Ikhwanweb stresses the importance of freedom of speech, which should be recognized and respected as a fundamental human right and is imperative for the development of human societies. We understand that there are two sides to every story, hence we are committed to publishing comments and views from both opinions, whether this is in support or against what we have written. However, there must be a balance between the right to freedom of speech and the need for decency, truth, honesty and goodness...

BM News: MB Deputy calls for Egypt action in Libya case

An Egyptian member of the Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary bloc, Abdel Fatah Eid, called for an “urgent” inquiry to be conducted and given to Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Aboul Gheit over what he called the fai..

And the Dam Cracks...

After eight long years of mixing oranges and apples, the Europeans appear to have finally learned the distinctions between constituency-based and societally-active Islamist militant movements, on the one hand, and takfiri,..

Comment from a Reader: Ikhwanweb’s indifference to the plight of Uighur Muslims

try to follow ikhwanweb on a regular base to keep me updated on the Egyptian politics and Islamic movement. I have to address my disappointment regarding your indifference to what happened in Eastern Turkistan. Aren’t they part of the ummah? Your site does not have any official condemnation of what happened. Besides, you did not cover the incidence at all. Isn’t our obligation to be concerned with the oppressed whether they are Muslims or not? Should not we take part on the side of ju..

Gaza: 1.5 million people trapped in despair, ICRC Report

Six months after Israel launched its three-week military operation in Gaza on 27 December 2008, Gazans still cannot rebuild their lives. Most people struggle to make ends meet. Seriously ill patients face difficulty obtaining the treatment they need. Many children suffer from deep psychological problems. Civilians whose homes and belongings were destroyed during the conflict are unable to recover..

MB - Turning the other cheek?

On the other hand, blogger Mahmoud Abdel-Monein sees the crackdown as part of the ongoing attempt to weaken the movement ahead of the coming transfer of the presidential post from Mubarak to his son. He goes on to criticize the weak response of the movement to recent crackdowns, pointing out that even when high leaders received harsh prison sentences in military tribunals last year, the movement left the campaigning on their behalf to their female relatives and younger bloggers. "Why d..

Egyptian bloggers put new face on dissent

Human-rights groups say the public’s fear is a testament to mass arrests, torture, and other violations of civil liberties against political opponents in a nation that has been under a state of emergency for three decades. ..