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Statement on International Campaign Against Sudan and Its President

The secretariat-general of the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) received with deep concern the call of the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor for an arrest warrant against the Sudanese president, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, claiming he is responsible for crimes against humanity committed in Darfur. ..

Political Islam and Muslim hip hop

There is much talk about political Islam and its future these days. The ascendancy of political movements with clear Islamic agendas is being watched closely from Egypt and Lebanon to North Africa. ..

Is Turkey’s Justice and Development Party a future model for the Arab world?

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) is now engaged in a political struggle with the country’s secular establishment, and the outcome is unclear. Western governments had hoped the party’s leaders could create a model of governance for Islamic parties in the Arab world...

Palestinians see Obama as agent of change

JERUSALEM -- With Barack Obama touring the Middle East and leading in the polls ahead of the U.S. presidential election this fall, many Palestinians are beginning to hope that the Democratic candidate might really represent change they can believe in. And some Israelis are starting to fear exactly the same thing...

Political Islam in the Middle East and North Africa

To date, there has been very little formal dialogue with political Islamist groups in the Middle East and North Africa on the part of European and North American governments and limited thought given to an appropriate and productive form of engagement with them...

Call for Dr. Ayman Nour’s Freedom

In my name and on behalf of my family, party and supporters I express our sincere gratitude for this interest in my case and condition. ..

Rights Groups Unite Against Controversial Media Law

As a result the human rights organizations which signed this release confirm that the "regulating audio and visual transmission" law is going to threat the right of opinion and expression, and ask the Egyptian government represented by the ministry of information for a public discussion of the "regulating audio and visual transmission" law. ..

The heretic

In May 2007, a fax arrived at the London office of the Arabic newspaper Asharq al-Awsat from a shadowy figure in the radical Islamist movement who went by many names. Born Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, he was the former leader of the Egyptian terrorist group al-Jihad, and ..

The rise of political Islam

’The central axis of world politics in the future is likely to be... the conflict between ’the West and the Rest’ and the responses of non-Western civilisations to Western power and values’. So wrote prominent American intellectual Samuel P Huntington, in a much-hyped article in 1993, later a book, entitled The Clash of Civilisations. Influential though the theory was, as the United States and its allies have bombed Afghanistan they have been at pains to distance themselves from it, fo..

In memoriam: Dr Abdelwahab El-Messiri

Thursday morning, July 3, 2008, Dr Abdelwahab El-Messiri passed away after a long bout with cancer. Dr El-Messiri was from the small Egyptian town of Damanhour in the Nile Delta, but when his brilliance was discovered by teachers in high school, they helped him to apply for a Fulbright fellowship to attend Columbia University, where he received a masters degree. He went on to complete a PhD in comparative literature at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He returned to Egypt to teach lit..

EGYPT’S FACEBOOK FACE OFF

This week Dateline invites you into the virtual world of Egypt’s online community. While it’s supposed to be a social networking site, Facebook has become the front line tool for the country’s struggling democracy movement, as Sophie McNeill reports...

Is the World Ready for a Black American President?

"Will Americans vote for a black man?" I think I’ve been asked this question by foreigners of various origins a dozen times—or maybe three dozen times—since the U.S. presidential campaign began for real in January. Now we have the answer: Yes, Americans will vote for a black man. Which means that it is now time to turn this rather offensive question around the other way: Will foreigners accept a black American president?..

Joel Brinkley: Bush gave Egyptians false hope

CAIRO, Egypt — President Bush’s second inaugural address, in January 2005, included rhetorical flourishes that certainly brought smiles to the faces of his speech writers as he delivered them from his podium in the House of Representatives...

Muslim Brothers: If You Can’t Beat Them…

Egypt’s political life is being damaged by a clash – now in its third year – between government forces and the Muslim Brotherhood. A far better option to the confrontation, a new study by the prestigious International Crisis Group shows, is to work toward a long-term goal of integrating the Brothers into the political mainstream...

Seven Questions: Western Promises

In the current issue of Foreign Policy, Geneive Abdo argues that the leading organizations heading up an interfaith dialogue between Muslims, Christians, and Jews are terribly misguided. Now, she answers FP’s questions about the efforts that have so far characterized the attempts to bridge East and West. ..

Hassan Zalat: Fourteen Months in Prison Hospital

Ikhwanweb is publishing a series of interviews that were conducted with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members who were acquitted from the most notorious military tribunal last April. After some 70 court sessions in a period of fourteen months which observers and media were not allowed to monitor, and after civil courts dropped all charges against defendants and deemed them “politically motivated” the verdict session was held in the absence of the accused and their defense panel who di..

Egypt’s Muslim Brothers Confrontation or Integration

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS The Society of Muslim Brothers’ success in the November-December 2005 elections for the People’s Assembly sent shockwaves through Egypt’s political system. In response, the regime cracked down on the movement, harassed other potential rivals and reversed its fledging reform process. This is dangerously short-sighted. There is reason to be concerned about the Muslim Brothers’ political program, and they owe the people genuine clarifications about s..

The Conservative Movement: From Failure to Threat

U.C. Berkeley tenured law professor John Yoo epitomizes the failure of the conservative movement in America. Known as "the torture professor," Yoo penned the Department of Justice (sic) memos that gave a blank check to sadistic Americans to torture detainees at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib...

Challenge to Cairo: Is the Muslim Brotherhood a Moderating Influence in Egyptian Politics?

The Muslim Brotherhood was formed in Egypt in 1928, initially part of the resistence to British control. However it was banned as a political party by Gamal Nasser in 1954 over the role of Sharia and a subsequent assassination attempt. Both Anwar Sadat and current president Hosni Mubarak have tried to include the group in mainstream politics without success. Yet in 2005, although not allowed to run as a party, individual members won 88 out of 454 seats in parliament. Does this mean the..

The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza

Attached are two files (pdf and powerpoint) for a slideshow prepared by Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations about the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza Strip in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. All the included data is based on the United Nation’s (UN) Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports. ..