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Khalil Shikaki,, a leading Palestinian political expert, says recent polling among Palestinians shows most support Hamas’ refusal to recognize Israel in advance of negotiations, but a great majority indicate they would back a peace agreement setting up a two-state situation...

QUESTION: Welcome with us, Ms. Secretary. And of course, this is your third trip to Egypt. We are wondering and many are wondering what is the mission of this visit because the agenda is full. But what specifically is the purpose of this visit?

SECRETARY RICE: Well, thank you very much...

The Writer, Intellectual and Historian Tarek Al Bishri, the former senior deputy chief justice of the State Council in his interview with "Addustour"

The regime’s insistence on not amending articles 76 and 77 of current constitution means that Mubarak makes amendments only for his own sake!

The old problems of the Muslim Brotherhood disappeared; the group is now the most positive in the political action and it also adopts most national attitudes adopted by people... The constitution amendment aims at approving the terrorism law without any constitutional opposition ... canceling judicial surveillance over elections ... changing the way of the elections of the People’s Assembly to prevent non partisan powers from succeeding are amendments that aim to tighten the regime’s grip on the rule ...

In his Article "Egypt: Leap toward Reform or Succession", Joshua Stacher from the Carengie Endowment Center in Washington DC and a political lecturer at the British University in Cairo, gives us his feedback on the dynamics of the NDP fourth annual conference in September...

The Muslim Brotherhood will field candidates in 15% of the total seats for the upcoming Labor Union elections on November 2, 2006.

 In its appreciation and sensing of the dire need to reactivate the role of women in society, the group has named some of the activist feminist figures to stand as candidates in this election.

The High Court in Cairo, on Monday October 16, 2006, ordered the release of Secretary General of Muslim Brotherhood Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat and another 14 MB leaderships from different governorates.

In continuation of its flagrant violation of human rights and inhuman treatment of political prisoners in Egypt, the Al Marg Prison authorities deprived the family of an MB detainee, by name of Maher el Tarky, of seeing their breadwinner who is, along with other political prisoners, placed in solitary confinement for a long time without any of them seeing light; some of them haven’t seen light for about 15 years.

About 1500 Muslim Brotherhood workers on Thursday October 19,2006, assembled in front of the Labors’ Union premises in Cairo to protest the government suppressive measures against the Muslim Brotherhood candidates who will stand for the Labors’ Union election begining of November.

The Center on Law and Security at the prestigious NYU School of Law in New York City, held its widely publicized forum on the Muslim Brotherhood which invited Dr. Kamal Helbawy and Dr. Abdel Moneum Abo El fotoh, who were later denied entery to the country by US authorities...

A scientific conference titled ”Islamists and Democracy” is to be held in London November 2-5 under the auspices of Democratic Studies Center affiliated to Westminster University.

In continuation of crackdowns launched against the Muslim Brotherhood to prevent its candidates from standing for the Workers’ Union election, the security authorities in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Assiut held three MB candidates, withdrawing the papers of one of them and denying them access to the Assiut Directorate of Manpower and Immigration to complete his election credentials.

Six students at the Faculty of Science, headed for the office of Students Affairs to apply for to draw their candidacy papers, but they were surprised to know that they were expelled from the faculty without prior notification.

- "We did not hold secret deals with the government, domestic interests are top priority"
- "We combated financial, administrative, and moral corruption, saved a lot for the budget of the state"
- "We are keen to ally with organizations who share with us the electoral constituncies"
- "We did not field womanly figures according to their own wish"
- "The Bahraini people are pious and they do believe that the Islamic trend can bring in progress"
- "The Islamic movement and its two trends; Sunni and Shiites will constitute the majority of the next council"

Bahrain will pass a new electoral experience on 25 November 2006 on both levels: the municipal and legislative ones in 40 constituencies...

A few weeks before Israel’s latest assault on Lebanon, SF-IMC interviewed local journalist, historian, photographer, radio producer, and anti-Zionist activist, Jeffery Blankfort. For a variety of reasons, technical and other, we are only just now getting around to publishing it. We apologize for the delay...

Alastair Crooke — The paradox is that most people ask us the question “are these people” — by which they mean the Islamist groups – ”willing to talk?” and actually we find that it is they who are the ones that are most ready to talk, most ready to listen and our problem is actually getting the West to listen and the West to try and begin engagement with them...