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Egypt‘s Parliamentary Elections:
An Assessment of the Results
Egypt’s Parliamentary elections are finally over, after a long, three-stage campaign brought about by the court ruling earlier this year requiring judicial personnel to monitor all the voting. The results are, on the one hand, highly predictable: the ruling National Democratic Party will, as usual, have the overwhelming majori..

The Egyptian Movement for Change

Kefaya
 
A Collaborative Gathering in Response to Alexandria Sectarian Events

The Egyptian Movement for Change (Kefaya) invites all Egyptians of all the political spectrum; intellectuals, artists, professionals, students, workers, laborers, men and women to join a collaborative gathering in response to the recent sectarian events in Al..

Michele Dunne"Michele Dunne, the editor of the Arab Reform Bulletin, published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says the Egyptian parliamentary elections, which are now in the final phase, has produced surprising electoral triumphs for the Muslim Brotherhood, which while not allowed to campaign as a party, is likely to win as many as 25 percent of the seats...

Rice warns Mubarak world will watch elections in Egypt
Debate rages in Washington over amount of pressure should be exerted on Egypt...

Egypt presidential campaign winds up
Judiciary overrules electoral commission ban on monitoring by independent local NGOs inside polling stations.

 
By Jean-Marc Mojon - CAIRO

Egypt’s first contested presidential campaign wound up Sunday, after three weeks that saw an unprecedented political debate but left doubts hanging over the transparency of the poll.

Egypt chooses leader in landmark vote
Veteran leader all but certain to head off all challengers amid reports of widespread irregularities.
By Jean-Marc Mojon - CAIRO

Egyptians voted Wednesday in the country’s first contested presidential election with veteran leader Hosni Mubarak all but certain to head off all challengers amid reports of widespread irregularities.

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Opposition claims massive fraud in Egypt poll
Observers predict incumbent president will seek to tamper with election results to ensure sufficient legitimacy.
By Joelle Bassoul - CAIRO

Indignant opposition candidates and independent monitors claimed Thursday that incumbent Hosni Mubarak’s camp had massively violated electoral law during Egypt’s first contested presidential poll.<..

The memory of Al-kiblah .. Changing and the beginning of a new school year
The Word of Al-Morshed
The memory of Al-kiblah

Changing and the beginning of a new school year

A message from Muhammad Mahdi Akef, the guide of the group of Moslem Brothers

Published on 09/15/2005

Praise is to Allah! The Lord of the worlds, and the prayer and the peace on the deleg..

But when asked if the regime will legalize the Muslim Brotherhood,
Egypt s most popul..

Egypt Opposition Unites Against Mubarak
By NADIA ABOU El-MAGD
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt -- Leaders from 10 of Egypt’s major opposition groups agreed to put aside their deep enmity for one another and join forces against President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling party in next month’s parliamentary elections.

Conspicuously missing from the National Front for Change that was forme..

Is the U.S. Ready for Egyptian Democracy?
By Geneive Abdo
In the wake of Egypt’s reelection of President Hosni Mubarak on Sept. 7, the chattering classes have been pouring praise on Mubarak’s government for a vote they view as a first step toward shattering a half-century of authoritarian rule. For the first time in Egyptian history, multiple candidates were allowed to stand in the elect..

US shifts toward caution on reform in Egypt
CAIRO (Reuters) - The U.S. approach to political change in Egypt has shifted in favor of those who advocate caution to keep Islamists out of power until they clarify or modify their policies, diplomats and analysts say.

Another school of thought, pressing for rapid change regardless of consequences, appeared to be in the ascendant earlier t..

This was one of only two occasions in my journalistic career that I have been asked to wear a scarf to conduct an int..

MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN CRISIS?
By Evgenii Novikov
On January 14, 2004, the Arab television station Al-Jazeera broadcast a report about the death of Mamoun El Hodeiby, the “spiritual leader” of the influential Egyptian fundamentalist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimoon). The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is often regarded as the forerunner of many of today’s more extreme an..

 
"We have candidates who are capable of ruling the world and not just Egypt," Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Mahdi Akef told Al-Ahram Weekly. Akef’s self-assured declaration reflects his confidence in the pop..