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Muslim Brotherhood: Alliance for survival
   By Doha Al Zohairy in Cairo, Egypt 

 
Essam el-Erian says media pressure aided his release (file)
 

On 16 October, the Egyptian authorities released four members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including Essam el-Erian, a senior leader of the banned, but tolerated Islamic group.

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..

Islamic Movements at the End of the 20th Century: Where Now?

By Michael Collins Dunn

Senior analyst of the International Estimate, Inc. and editor of its bi-weekly newsletter, The Estimate.

It is possible to discern certain trends and characteristics in the evolution of Islamic movements from which we can extrapolate a few inferences about future developm..

Abdul Fattah Ali the chief editor of the weekly publication..

commitment to democracy is absolute
A top State Department official said Thursday the Bush administration’s commitment to expanding democracy in the Arab world is ``absolute and very firm’’ because U.S. national security is at stake.

Elizabeth Cheney, deputy assistant secretary of state for the Near East, said this month’s multicandidate election won overwhelmingly..

The Committee for Opinion-related Prisoners Demand Dr. El-Brinse to be Released
Ikhwan Online

By Yasser Hady
The Committee for opinion-related prisoners called the human right organizations and the free, independent officials for helping Dr. Hansen El-Brinse, a professor in Medicine School at Alexandra University, to be released as soon ..

Protests, organized by the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement, were held at three major universities in Cairo: Cairo University, Ain Shams and al-Azhar.

Demonstrating students wore black and white shirts reading "free un..

A Message from a Political Prisoner
By Dr Mohamed Abdol Rahman Al Morsi Ramadahn- specialist Heart Consultant

Al-Mansorah, Egypt and currently under contingent imprisonment in Al-Mansorah General Prison since 14/05/2005 under case No 4272

What happened of breaches by the Egyptian regime to human rights and law guarantees against demonstrators calling for fre..

Abu el-Fotooh: the Upcoming Election will be falsified:
Ikhwan Online

Abu el-Fotooh, a leading figure in the Moslem Brotherhood, affirmed that the purpose of the National Front, which consists of all political parties and movements, is not to form a parliamentary list to contest in the forthcoming parliamentary elections. Actually, this is unattainable because of the time element..

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood students push for free polls
Some 3,000 Islamists students staged a demonstration at Cairo University on Tuesday to press for increased freedom on campus and free and fair union elections next month.

"We don’t want security forces on campus, we don’t want the regime to intervene and rig student elections on November 11," said one of the organizers, Abdulmo..

Al-Ahram: the Moslem Brotherhood is the Leading Opposing Power in Egypt.......The Moslem Brotherhood comes on the top of the most popular political parties and movements in spite of the security tight measures and pursuits exercised on it.