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MB Sweep the Jordanian Engineering Association

The Islamic candidate Abdullah Obeidat won the position Head of Engineers until the year of 2010, with significant difference number of votes as he got 3509 to 976 of his opponent Marawan El-Hadidi the candidate of the National Movement...

Somali MB Calls For Dialogue and Immediate Cease-Fire

The movement also stressed in its statement the importance of “working together to achieve peace and national accord in Somalia, primarily the capital,” as well as the importance of “working with international organizations delivering aid to the harmed and bringing residents back to their homes.”..

IOA issues new batch of demolition orders in O. Jerusalem

The Israeli occupation authority on Tuesday issued demolition orders against 31 Palestinian apartments in a number of suburbs in occupied Jerusalem, local sources reported. ..

Jihan El-Sadat: My Husband Was A MB Affiliate

Yes, El-Sadat was a member of the MB, and even I, in my childhood, greatly believed in them as they started out in Manyal El-Rawdah neighborhood in Cairo where I used to live and late MB Chair Hasan El-Hodeiby used to be our neighbor. They were ethical youth who enjoyed true faith and upheld the ideals and values of the Egyptian society,” Jihan said in response to a question on El-Sadat’s relation with the MB referred to in her book. ..

Egyptians Hold Least Favorable Veiws of Obama

The institute’s poll was conducted during March with a sample of 7,000 Arabs from Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Kuwait to explore Arabs’ point of view on the U.S., and the American President Barack Obama and his policies under his slogan declared throughout his presidential campaign, “Change.”..

10 Cairo University Students Expelled, 70 Transferred To Investigations Before Exams

In a new escalatory step, Cairo University’s administration expelled ten MB students for periods ranging from a week to a month without laying any real accusations against them and transferred 70 others to investigations from the Dar El-‘Ulum, commerce, and sciences faculties...

Egyptian Authority Prevented A European Convoy From Entering Gaza

The Egyptian Authorities has prevented on Sunday May 8, a British medical delegation from entering Gaza through Rafah Crossing. The spokesman of the medical group stated that his group is saying in crossing for many days and refusing to come back until they get into Gaza...

Angry protest against Egyptian police violations

Dozens of lawyers and their clients yesterday demonstrated in central Cairo’s Talaat Harb Square against violations of Shubra al-Khaima police officers. It came after security forces prevented demonstrating in El-Shahid Abdel Moneim Riad Square. ..

Ayman Nour’s speech to US Congress: I reject trial of Khairat Al-Shater’s group before martial court

Dr. Ayman Nour, former leader of Al-Ghad Party, said in a speech by telephone from Cairo to the U.S. Congress during a special session on the development of democracy in Egypt day before that he supports the decision to increase the U.S. aid to Egypt by $360 million without conditions. At the same time, he expressed satisfaction at the draft law condemning human rights violations in Egypt. ..

Sadat’s widow: My Husabnd was member of the MB

In an interview on Al-Arabiyya channel Friday night on the occasion of the recent publication of her new book “My Hope for Peace,” Jihan El-Sadat, widow of the late Egyptian President Anwar El-Sadat, affirmed that her husband, during part of his lifetime, used to be a member of the MB which she described as “moderate..

Egyptian Delegation Meets with American-Jewish Leaders in Preperation for Mubarak’s Visit to Washing

A high- level Egyptian delegation in Egypt recently has carried out discussions with one of the largest Jewish lobby organizations in USA, in preparation for the expected visit of President Hosni Mubarak to the US as the first of its kind in six years which is expected late this month...

A Former Official in the US Administration, Reasons For Cairo-Washington Tension

Dr. John Alterman (Director of the Middle East Centre in the Centre for Strategic and International Studies) that there is tension in the Egyptian- American relations, attributing this to the fact that both parties do not feel that they are getting paid back for what they provide the other with. ..

MB Chair: Netanyahu Not Welcomed In Egypt

MB Chair Mohamed Mahdi Akef refused the visit of “Israeli terrorist” Benjamin Netanyahu to Egypt “at a time when the hands of Israelis and their political and military leadership remain stained by the blood of our Palestinian brothers in Gaza,” and while criminal and brutal violations committed by the Israeli occupation continue in the West Bank and Jerusalem...

SSI arrests 2 MB activists in Luxor

State Security Forces have arrested two residents of Esna city (55 km south of Luxor).They are teacher Badr Reda Yassin, 30, and, 35, Abbas Mohammed Badri teacher also ..

Palestinian activist Habib to hold hearing on Gaza in European parliament

Activist in the European campaign to end the siege Sameh Habib intends to visit the European parliament in Italy at the invitation of Luisa Morgantini, the deputy speaker of the parliament, to talk about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip...

Rossi: The Israeli siege is the most hideous crime in human history

Italian senator Fernando Rossi condemned Saturday the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip as the most hideous crime in human history, calling on the European parliament to actively and urgently intervene to end the criminal blockade imposed on one and a half million Palestinians. ..

MP: actions not words to change US image among Muslims

Subhi Saleh (MB parliamentary bloc Geographical sectors chief) emphasized that the tattered US image will not be changed among Muslims unless they feel the US administration to respect their rights and demands..

Bani Ershaid: Jordan’s Islamic movement committed to democratic practices

Zaki Bani Ershaid, the Secretary General of the Islamic Action Front emphasized that Jordan’s Islamic movement is coherent, stressing that whenever external and internal pressures increased coherent and harmonization..

Egyptian Authorities Burn the Aid of Human Relief Committee

This morning Egyptian authorities burnt food substances of the Human Relief Committee in Al-Arish and Rafah, the substances which was supposed to reach to the people of Gaza months ago but Egyptian authorities kept it under guarding because it contained some rations donated by ordinary Egyptians to their brothers in Gaza. Although the small amount of food supply was not more than 20Kg out of 200,000 tons of food supplies, the government used it as an excuse to prevent the flow of aid..

Egypt’s pigs, What a waste

IN A city not much noted for efficiency, Cairo’s traditional rubbish collectors, or Zabbaleen, have long been something of a paragon. While failing to keep Egypt’s teeming capital very clean, the Zabbaleen, nearly all of them members of Egypt’s 6m-plus Coptic Christian minority, do an excellent job of processing waste. Trucking refuse to the half-dozen rag-picking settlements that ring the city, they carefully sift out recyclable glass, paper and plastic. The rest is fed to pigs. ..