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Zogby Then and Now

The resignation two weeks ago of Mazen Asbahi, Sen. Barack Obama’s Muslim outreach coordinator, sparked outrage among several self-appointed leaders of the "organized" Muslim and Arab community. Ahmed Rehab, mouthpiece for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), claimed ..

Remembering a Towering Personality

Long before Francis Fukuyama published his famous article by the end of last century, an Arab thinker coined the term "End of History" in a different context. As it was in Arabic, it did not attract a lot of attention and the author was not much credited. That was one of the early books of Dr Abdul Wahab Al Messiri, who died in Cairo on the 3rd of July 2008, aged 70...

Pervez Musharraf leaves a fractured Pakistan

When Pervez Musharraf seized power in 1999, he was besieged by American demands that his military stop supporting the Taliban in Kabul and help them apprehend Osama bin Laden...

Egyptian Muslim Brother says Mauritania coup reflects crisis in Arab democracy

[Article by Dr Isam al-Aryyan: "the coup in Mauritania and the crisis of democracy."] The 10th coup was not a surprise to the people of Mauritania. Its political and military elite was expecting the coup. However, the coup was a shock to the ..

On Common Ground

Do not ask, ’Is he or she one of us,’" says Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the world’s most respected Muslim scholars, "but, ’Is he or she one of his?’" ..

Muslim hails tolerance among U.S. Christians

I WAS ONCE again reminded this summer of the amazing degree of religious tolerance that many Christians in this country display habitually...

Cowards and patriots

Today we must ask ourselves whether America is safer because the Wall Street Journal outed and exposed to the world an honest patriot volunteering for a cause he believes in and partaking of democracy which is his right as a concerned citizen...

Letter from a Cairo Jail

Writing from Tura Prison near Cairo, former Egyptian MP Ayman Nour pens a letter on the future of Egypt, the usefulness of Islamic fundamentalism in justifying authoritarianism, and the impact of the Iraq War on reformers in the Arab world. ..

‘Inside Egypt’

I’ve been semi-permanently based in Egypt for about a decade (apart from a two-and-a-half-year stint in Saudi Arabia from a few months before September 11, 2001, when I was the managing editor of the English-language daily Arab News). I speak ..

New Media and Persuasion, Mobilization, and Facilitation

There’s a lot of talk about the Internet as a tool to broadcast information. For many groups today, the media is as essential as oxygen, without it they suffocate and fade away. Not only do they need the media to highlight their cause and influence decision makers, but more importantly they need it to build support for their actions and propagate their message. In other words, it is for advertising the cause and intimidating the competition. ..

The Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt

Last month President George W Bush told the Arab world to democratise and allow opposition parties to take part in the political process. It was a pointed remark to make in Egypt, where the main opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, has been banned for 50 years. ..

10-Day Postponement of School Year an Offence to Islam?

Because he is keen to maintain the good image of Islam and Muslims, I’d like to attract the minister’s attention to some measures taken in the Ministry of Higher Education. These measure so much distort the image Islam more than calling off the school year for 10 days. These measures include for example: ..

Gallup Center for Muslim Studies

The Gallup Center for Muslim Studies is a nonpartisan research center dedicated to providing data-driven analysis, advice, and education on the views of Muslim populations around the world. It will draw upon Gallup’s unprecedented global research initiative, the Gallup World Poll and the Gallup Poll of the Muslim World*, to enable global leaders, institutions, and the public to make more informed decisions. ..

Social Networking Threatens to Topple Regime?

Facebook, blogs, and political participation in general are apparently huge threats to the Egyptian government...

Mubarak hangs on

For those too caught up in the drama of on-again, off-again Israeli-Palestinian talks, the Iraq and/or Iran debates, and Lebanon’s political paralysis to pay close attention, Egypt seems like the one part of the Middle East that is not teetering on the brink. The team that Husni (and Gamal) Mubarak put in place to transform the Egyptian economy has produced impressive results...

Many Turks, Iranians, Egyptians Link Sharia and Justice

The first article analyzed public attitudes about the role of Sharia as a source of legislation, concluding that although perceptions vary greatly across the three countries, most Iranians and Egyptians (and even many Turks) believe Sharia should be a source of legislation...

Kissinger - We Must Not Repeat The Tragedy Of Vietnam That Followed Our Withdrawal

The American presence in Iraq should not be presented as open-ended; this would not be supported by either Iraqi or American domestic opinion. But neither should it be put forward in terms of rigid deadlines. Striking this balance is a way for our country to come together as a constructive outcome emerges. Thirty years ago, Congress cut off aid to Vietnam and Cambodia two years after American troops had been withdrawn and local forces were still desperate to resist. Domestic divisions ..

Acts of War

The war between the United States and Iran is on. American taxpayer dollars are being used, with the permission of Congress, to fund activities that result in Iranians being killed and wounded, and Iranian property destroyed. ..

“Crystal Clear Difference between the MB’s Ideology and that of the Al-Qaeda Network

Statement from the Muslim Brotherhood Highlighting the “Crystal Clear Difference between the Muslim Brotherhood’s Ideology and that of the Al-Qaeda Network” ..

Two in one: dual platform on religious dialogue

It was a cultural Binali, or in the words of one participants “the awakening of conscience”. The conference that took place over two days in London (July 1 & 2) was not merely a gathering of pro-Islamic unity enthusiasts, nor was it an event to exchange superficial good wishes and sweet words while brushing aside “serious” differences amongst adherents of various schools of thought and jurisprudence within the realm of Islam. ..