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Government Denies Former US Attorney General Access to MB Trial

Egyptian security authorities in the military region of Huckstepp prevented the former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark from entering the military tribunal to monitor the twenty sixth session trying 40 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders....

Politicians Voice Worries towards NDP Annual Conference

All sections of the Egyptian society are speaking nowadays about the National Democratic Party’s (NDP) conference and the political surprises resulting from it . ..

Families of MB Detainees Concerned Over Their Deteriorating Health

The latest session of the Military Tribunal against Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders witnessed the growing absence of some detainees, up to 9, in the last session on Saturday, Oct, 27th, 2007 ...

Lynch’s Meeting Agenda

November 12: The Institute for Middle East Studies Inaugural Year continues, with a research conference on theme of citizenship in the Middle East. Lynch will chair and also present research at a panel entitled "Egypt: Challenges of Islam, Democracy, and Citizenship." The other speakers are Ellis Goldberg and and Mona el-Ghobashy. 10:00-12:00, at the Elliott School. ..

Egypt’s ruling party amends bylaws, opening possible path for succession

Egypt’s ruling party changed its bylaws Saturday in a move many think further paves the way for President Hosni Mubarak’s son to legally succeed him...

Egypt ruling party keeps Mubarak

Party delegates voted overwhelmingly to retain Mr Mubarak for another five years in an uncontested secret ballot. ..

In God’s name

THE four-hour journey through the bush from Kano to Jos in northern Nigeria features many of the staples of African life: checkpoints with greedy soldiers, huge potholes, scrawny children in football shirts drying rice on the road. But it is also a journey along a front-line. ..

Egypt’s Copts, Muslim Brotherhood Reject Copts Problems Solved Abroad

The US city of Chicago hosted on Saturday, October, 20th, a conference entitled "The Coptic Issue...A New Treatment", organized by a group of Copts in diaspora topped by engineer Adli Abadir and included a number of top Christian figures...

What the Muslim Brotherhood’s Platform Means

Mohammed Herzallah and Amr Hamzawy, in an article in the Daily Star, call the Muslim Brotherhood’s new platform a step forward, “making major strides toward a comprehensive public policy program espousing freedom of expression and pluralistic politics - ideals that were previously immaterial to Islamist discourse in Egypt.” They argue that changes in the Brotherhood “in the hopes of becoming legitimate political actors resembles the kind of raw and authentic progress that has been larg..

UK Conference: Only Solution for Egypt’s Democracy Crisis is MB Participation

Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, UK, headed by Dr. Simon Gose, held conference entitled "Struggle for Egypt’s future" as part of its program "Islam and Democracy "on Wednesday, October, 24th, in the university building at Regent Straight st. London...

George Ishak Asks About MB Leaders View to Rule Inheritance Issue

George Ishak, the assistant coordinator of Kifaya Movement, denounced that the Muslim Brotherhood group doesn’t have any sufficient presence in the political arena...

Party time

IT’S that time of year again. No, not Halloween. Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) is about to convene its annual conference. It’s hard to figure out why the party (such as it is) even goes through the motions. There aren’t too many Egyptians who take the three day confab very seriously...

Fayyum College Students Rearrested after Prosecution Release

In an unjustified escalation, the state security arrested them again after the prosecution released them on the second day of their detention...

Al Shater’s Trial Adjourned till next Tuesday

The 24th session of the military tribunal trying 40 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders including the second deputy chairman of the group, engineer Khairat Al-Shater..

The Arabic Network concludes its Journalists Training Course

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information concluded last Thursday , October 25,2007 its 9th training course for journalists and activists in using the Internet and working in compliance with human rights standards in journalistic writing..

Civil liberties group challenges US visa ban for Muslim intellectual

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenged in federal court Thursday the US government’s refusal to grant a travel visa to Swiss-based Muslim academic Tariq Ramadan...

4 Helwan MB Students Dismissed

The dean of the Faculty of Social Work, Helwan University , issued on Wednesday Oct, 24th, 2007 , of decision dismissing 4 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) students for a semester. The dismissed students are Ali Abdul Razek Ali, Mostafa Abdul Halim, Muhammad Abdul Aati, Ali Al Saeed. ..

Social Gathering for Families of MB Detainees on Friday

The Association of Families of the Detainees Referred the Military Court invited families of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) detainees and all media outlets to attend a social party on Friday Oct, 26th, 2007, the Lawyers Club overlooking the Nile cornice, at 1.00 at noon ...

Inside Hamas

Last month in a safe house in Gaza City, Clancy Chassay had dinner with two senior Hamas leaders - and was a rare western witness to a debate on the issues that divide the Palestinian organisation..

London Hosts Seminar on MB Party Platform next Saturday

The London-based Society of Abrar (Pious People) declared organizing a seminar in cooperation with the society of Risalat Al-Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood Message)....