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Surprising times for outlawed opposition

As the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s officially outlawed opposition organisation, Mohammed Mahdi Akef, 80, has grown accustomed to making political statements that buck the status quo. Last week,

MB: Strikes Are A Constitutional Right That Shouldn’t Be Hampered

In a press statement on Thursday, April 2, the MB affirmed their stance concerning Egyptian people’s right to enjoy their constitutional and legal rights.

MB Statement on the “Day of Rage” April 6th, 2009

The MB, whose roots extend all across Egypt, the honorable people of Egypt and their elected representatives in the parliament, which the regime has deprived of its role and influence,

Falk: The Palestinian people have the right to resistance

Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Palestine, stressed that the Palestinian people have the right to resistance, self-determination and the establishment of their independent state

Brothers gonna work it out?

On March 25 Mohammed Mehdi Akef, the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, told an Egyptian newspaper that he would not seek a second term and will step down within

Breaking News : The Muslim Brotherhood supports 6th April 09 Strike

I have not seen this coming to be honest , all indicators and all leaked news from the brotherhood were in to the opposite direction. I swear if it were

Texting Toward Utopia

In 1989 Ronald Reagan proclaimed that “The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip”; later, Bill Clinton compared Internet censorship to “trying to nail

Ikhwan Web News Digest 02-04-09

Gordon Brown, Britain’s prime minister, has opened the G20 summit in London, renewing calls for a common global strategy to fight the economic crisis.

UN experts condemn detention of Egyptian blogger

Experts of the Human Rights Council have concluded that the Egyptian authorities have detained blogger Karim Amer arbitrarily for his online criticisms and for exercising his right to freedom of

Democracy Digest: Event

March 27, 2009: 12:30 p.m., Democracy and Leadership in Mexico, with Roderic Camp, Philip M. McKenna professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont McKenna College. Woodrow Wilson Center, One Woodrow