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MB Warns of Aftermath of Egyptian Parliamentary Election's Quake

Dr. Essam El-Erian, the Brotherhood's media spokesman and member of the Executive Bureau, has warned of serious consequences of the so-called ‘earthquake’ that took place in Egypt's much-criticised parliamentary elections...

Ghad Party Leader Warns of Greater Violence following denials to fraud

Dr. Ayman Nour, leader of Egypt's Al-Ghad Party, believes that President Hosni Mubarak's negligence to the opposition’s demands for dissolving the new parliament will close peaceful paths to change...

Rights group urges Egypt's prosecutor to investigate edict against ElBaradei

A recent religious edict issued by Mahmoud Amer, head of Egypt's Al-Sunna al-Mohamadiya religious group, calling on former IAEA chief Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, to "repent" for inciting civil unrest and calling for a popular boycott of next year's presidential elections has been met with controversy and skeptism...

Vulnerable Muslim Youth: The Challenge of Counter-Radicalisation

Atlanta, Georgia - Many of us are still bewildered by the bizarre news of the 19-year-old Somali-born American citizen, Muhammad Osman Mohamud, arrested on 25 November for attempting to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon...

Egypt’s Old and New Opposition – And Why They Need Each Other

The Arab world has proven stubbornly resistant to democratic change...

WikiLeaks - Another Perspective

According to recent polls, Israel is seen as the greatest threat to world peace, yet Wikileaks is distracting people’s attention away from Israel, focusing on Iran as the biggest threat. Arab opinion shows that Israel is seen (80%) as the major threat to world peace, while the US takes second place (77%), and, Iran comes in third with only 10%...

Close to 6000 Appeals and Lawsuits Threaten “Fraudulent Parliament”

The number of cases and appeals against the 2010 parliamentary elections reached 4299 lawsuits including 1426 cases in the Supreme Administrative Court alone...

Media Attacks by NDP against Parallel Parliament

The National Democratic Party (NDP) is studying a plan to besiege the parallel parliament which was formed by the opposition and former MPs in a clear message objecting to the results of the recent parliamentary elections...

WikiLeaks: Officials behind stock market collapse

A document sent from the US Embassy in Cairo to the US State Department, released by the WikiLeaks website, said an article that appeared on March 23 in the maverick independent paper Al-Dostour attacked Gamal Mubarak from a new angle...

Qandil's Lawyers Slam Unfair Trial

According to Gamal Eid of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, the defense lawyers for the prominent Egyptian journalist Hamdy Qandil, currently being tried for allegedly defaming Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, was not allowed to make its pleas...

Mubarak Oblivious to Opposition Outcries

During President Hosni Mubarak's address to the newly seated People's Assembly Sunday, the leader defended the policies of the ruling National Democratic Party and dismissed all the opposition's outcry...

Media Men Denied Access to the IDSC Silver Jubilee Celebration

Journalists, newspapers and TV channels were blocked from attending the celebration of the Egyptian Cabinet's Information and Decision Support Center Silver Jubilee, after 25 years of its establishment...

Lawsuit Demands Egyptian Government Suspend Upcoming Presidential Election

Former Wafd MP, Mohamed El-Omda, filed a lawsuit to the Supreme Administrative Court against President Mubarak...

MB students enter day two of open ended sit in

Muslim Brotherhood students from the Zagazig University, have entered the second day of an open-ended sit protesting against the continued series of oppression against the students by the university's administration...

12 MB detainees released including AlJazeera reporter

Qatar-based news network Al-Jazeera has reported that Egyptian authorities have released reporter Mohamed Badr arrested in the run-up to Egypt’s parliamentary elections. Badr was also the husband of the Muslim Brotherhood's women candidate Azza Algarf...

British MP: Tzipi Livni is a war criminal, daughter of a terrorist

When discussing before the House of Commons a change in British law that would ultimately harbor war criminals, MP Gerald Kaufman labeled former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni “the daughter of a war criminal and terrorist”..

IOA forces Jerusalemite to raze his own home

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) forced a Jerusalemite citizen to knock down his own home in Thawri suburb in occupied Jerusalem...

Asian convoy to break Gaza siege to land in Syria Monday

A Gaza-bound humanitarian aid convoy dubbed Asia Convoy 1 has landed in Turkey and is scheduled to make its next stop in Syria on Monday before heading out to Egypt's Al Arish port and then reaching its final destination...

Police Officer Beats Up Professor At Zaqaziq University

A first lieutenant police officer assaulted a university professor while he was sitting with his fiancée, a student, at the Faculty of Arts, Zaqaziq University...

Elections of the Judges Club between the “Independent” and the “Change”

Fierce competition is taking place between the “independent” and the “change” before the third-renewal election next Friday. The two streams used the case of Councillor Waleed El-Shafei who revealed that the elections were rigged in Badrasheen constituency to get judges to their sides...