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Sisters in the Muslim Brotherhood

More female members of the Muslim Brotherhood are seeking ways to increase their numbers in senior positions in the movement itself and, in time, to participate more in the country’s politics, notes Omayma Abdel-Latif...

Justice not equality

The mark of power is often presented in the form of the helping hand. Amid invasions and occupation, focus has fallen, too, on more subtle means of advancing the agendas of foreign powers. One such means is targeting the generative essence of societies, wherein women stand at the centre. What role do women in Islamist movements play in defending the cultural particularity and sovereignty of the Arab and Muslim world?..

Abdel-Moneim Abul-Futuh: A different kind of syndicalism

Following riots on 7 January, 1977 president Anwar El-Sadat met student leaders from across the country.The government was having a hard time containing the fallout from the riots and wanted to gauge students’ reactions. Abdel-Moneim Abul- Futuh was, at the time, head of Egypt’s Students’ Union and he had one question he wanted to ask El-Sadat. ..

The shape of things to come

The shape of things to come
By taking their case for political reform to the street the Muslim Brotherhood are helping to reshape the politics of dissent, reports Omayma Abdel-Latif

 When Mohamed Mahdi Akef, the Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme guide, told a press conference last Wednesday that the group was planning to hold a rally to protest the current political stalemate, one r..