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Mumbai Attacks: The Messages and Challenges

and freelanced as a copywriter for advertising agencies in Mumbai. Every time I got a new gig, I would celebrate by going to the Taj for a buffet or a breakfast. For a 23 year old, it was a thrill to be able to afford the atmosphere of the Taj..

Gaza: A Human Tragedy Under Siege

The Gaza Strip has been living under an Israeli 16-month-old despicable siege, which is now reaching its most harshly shocking pinnacle. In addition to blocking the flow of food, medical supplies, and basic needs, Israel has recently barred the fuel supplies from reaching the impoverished strip...

Pirates Thrive in Lawless Somalia

As Somalia descends into a blood-soaked spiral of chaos and suffering, the international community largely unstirred and hopelessly oblivious has instead focused its attention on the real life fruition of boyhood tales of piracy and crime on the high seas. Pirates, who have been steadily ratcheting up attacks as of late, are also becoming more and more audacious in carrying out their operations. The recent capture and subsequent sagas of the Faina and the Sirius star have barreled onto..

Egypt’s Political Economy

Egypt’s political community is scratching its head over the next Egypt’s president: Gamal Mubarak or Omar Soliman? Is it the son of the president, or rather the powerful head of the Egyptian Intelligence ?..

Islamic Movement in Nigeria: When Groups, Orders, Sects Meet

Muslim Cooperation is a well-known group in Nigeria. It is basically formed of young Muslim men and women, and includes students of Arabic and English schools, both local and public, and some university graduates. The main ideas of the group revolve around preaching for God insightfully, rectifying the confusion in faith and the destructive doctrines prevalent in this Islamic society, and also leading those who went astray back to the fold of Islam...

US Leaders Recommend Muslim Diplomacy

A diverse group of 34 US religious, business, military, foreign policy and academic leaders are recommending more diplomatic engagement and a more robust investment in economic development to help improve relations with the Muslim world. ..

Islam Vs. Secularism on Facebook

CAIRO — Devout Muslims and secularists are using the world’s second largest social networking website Facebook to debate the role of Islam in their societies, reported the Los Angeles Times on Friday, September 19. "Secularism is refused by all means," Mohamed Amer, an Egyptian, writes in a ..

Brotherhood Blogs: Windows To Revelation, Criticism And Organizational Rise

“Brotherhood blogs" appeared as a new media outlet several years ago. After a short period of their appearance, they formed a new phenomenon that has its media impacts and interactions with reality, not only in Egypt, but around the world through the universality of the web...

Active US Muslims Fight 9/11 Stigma

CAIRO — For many US Muslims, pro-activity and engagement with the wider community have proved the best way to counter an image as the enemy within in ..

Europe’s Muslim Brotherhood, Long Path that Needs Review

We hope that the movement’s scholars and intellectuals in the West reconsider the content of the central idea- of reviving life in light of Islam and that Islam rules as it was -which emerged when the group was first founded. This is because every one knows that targets of the Islamic mission in the West doesn’t include that Islam rules in it or that life is maintained in the light of Islam. Because these societies have never been ruled by Islam and majorities are none Muslims, and Mus..

Is The Muslim Brotherhood Losing Internal Balance?

I believe every organization or institution has an equation for maintaining its internal balance. Internal balance refers to the organization’s ability to maintain its function, methods, and goals; its ability to develop its discourse, methods, and plans; its ability to adapt to different situations and circumstances surrounding it; its ability to persist, survive, and be effective; and its ability to deal with the status quo using different methods suitable for different times. In a ..

Is The Muslim Brotherhood Losing Internal Balance?

I believe every organization or institution has an equation for maintaining its internal balance. Internal balance refers to the organization’s ability to maintain its function, methods, and goals; its ability to develop its discourse, methods, and plans; its ability to adapt to different situations and circumstances surrounding it; its ability to persist, survive, and be effective; and its ability to deal with the status quo using different methods suitable for different times. In a ..

Do Muslim Brotherhood Paths Contradict?

It is natural that the Muslim Brotherhood has an internal diversity in viewpoints. This diversity takes shape sometimes in specific trends. Observers often care for knowing trends inside the movement. Here we see many analyses around these trends ..

The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe and a Course of Reviews, UK an Example

The Muslim Brotherhood Movement has emerged in Europe since the early 1950s. It started to take an organized shape in some western countries like Britain in 1963. The movement was formed in most European countries by some Muslim Brotherhood..

In Egypt, Beware Everyone Is Watched Online

Sitting as usual at a small table in his café beside a window overlooking the American University in Cairo whose students are most of his customers, with a cup of Nescafe and laptop, Khaled ( 21 years ) starts to pointedly surf websites to know latest news of the world. He opens his e-mail and writes new posts in his weblog that records his daily routine as a student in the American University in Cairo . ..

"Will the Muslim Brotherhood Fall Apart?" ,(1/2)

Deeply-rooted in history and wide-spread, the Muslim Brotherhood is considered an effective and basic component in the social and political fabric of Arab and Islamic countries. In spite of this effective presence which extends to several other countries across the world, its continuity is beginning to be questioned, how far the Muslim Brotherhood will continue and how far their effective role will continue...

Brief Account of (previously Islamic) Song in Egypt

Thus, the nashid (or religious chant" was following a social movement in the making. It was therefore completely depending on politics: Its militant words written by sheikh Ahmed Hassan Al Baqouri, others written by Abdul Hakim Abdin, the founder’s brother-in-law. The nashid (religious chant) was used in and gatherings and festivals in religious events like the Prophet’s birth, the new Hegira year and the feast. All members were during these occasions doing the same movements and were ..

Turkish Islamist Intellectuals at Left-Leaning Crossroads

What is currently taking place in the Turkish Islamic arena is only a tip of an iceberg, a unique domestic debate that may soon lead to an unprecedented radical change in the Turkish Islamic movement and all Islamic movements in general, specially if we know that it signals a rise in a growing trend that calls for a change of historical coalitions of Islamists to move closer to the Left, a previously primary foe for all Islamic movements. ..

A Reading into Al-Qaradawi-Muslim Brotherhood Relation

Al Qaradawi has been defined by the Muslim Brotherhood Movement perhaps as much it is defined by him. They have been related in all stages of his life. When you read his memoirs (released in three parts so far), you feel that his writing not about himself but about the history of the group. You feel also that he was writing about himself when he wrote a book about the history of group entitled: "The Muslim Brotherhood 70 years in Mission and Education"...

Revisions Add to Islamic Moderation, Interview with Rafiq Habib

Dr. Habib urged the heralds of those revisions to establish visions based on peaceful change, where this change itself can become a form of struggle that gathers the Islamic and national powers together, so that no violence happens anymore...