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18 Candidates Manage to Register For Shura Council Elections

Despite widespread intimidations by government officials to prevent candidates affiliated with the MB from registering for the upcoming Shura Council elections, 18 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) managed to

Ain Shams MB Students Acquitted of Riot Allegations

An Egyptian court acquitted 8 university MB students from riot charges. Cairo-based- Al-Waily Criminal Court acquitted yesterday 8 Ain Shams University students belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood group charged of assaulting

Turkish military rules but not governs, says expert

While the European Union reform process has anchored Turkish reform and constrained the military, as popular support for EU membership in Turkey declines, the military has greater room for political

Habib: Election Rigging Expected To Reach 99-100%

The Higher Election Committee closed on Sunday evening May, 20, 2007,  nominations for those who want to run for the Shura Council midterm elections. The Interior Ministry is expected to declare

Silencing Monem ?

 We demonstrated for Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine... but we did not demonstrate for our own freedom.Abdel-Monem

Miracle in Mauritania

It has been a sobering year for Middle East reform.Sectarian strife in Iraq has largely silenced calls for democracy to replace dictatorship. Lebanon, whose March 14 movement once seemed to

Islamist MPs In the Dock

In another escalation of the government’s ongoing campaign against the Islamist opposition, two MPs from the Muslim Brotherhood were stripped of parliamentary immunity this month after being briefly detained by

Cheney of Arabia

Is Dick Cheney coming back for more? The Vice President has just completed a week-long tour of the Middle East that eerily retraced the visits he made to Arab capitals