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Morsi Praises Role of Rights Groups in Strengthening Civil Society

Morsi asserted that the FJP welcomes initiatives supporting the civilian society, which is significant for any progress craved by Egypt, adding the party will benefit from laws regulating the work

Dr. Morsi to Norwegian Envoy: Situation in Egypt Improving

Dr. Mohamed Morsi, Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), on Sunday afternoon, met with Jon Hansen Bauer, Norwegian Foreign Minister Envoy to the Middle East, and Tor Wennesland,

After The Revolution: Egypt Pursues Japan, Learns Lessons of Its Renaissance, Inspires It With Revolution

I visited Japan, almost a year after the tsunami, and after experiencing the Egyptian revolution – right from its inception, and until the moment that marked the passage of one

Tunisia and Egypt One Year On by ESAM AL-AMIN

January 25 marked the one-year anniversary of the inception of Egypt’s revolution against the dictatorship of the Mubarak regime, eleven days after the success of the Tunisian revolution, when its

FJP Elects Hussein Ibrahim Majority Leader

The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Parliamentary Commission nominated – during its first meeting on Sunday afternoon – Dr. Mohamed Saad Katatni as the party's candidate for the Speaker of

Political Islam and Democracy, by German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle

In an opinion article, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle addresses the role of Islamic political parties in the changes underway in North Africa and the Arab world.

MB & FJP: We Seek West-Like Union, Not Traditional Caliphate

Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Barr, member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Executive Bureau and Dean of Al-Azhar University’s Faculty of Theology and Da’wa (Islamic reach-out) in Mansoura, clarified that Dr. Mohamed Badie,MB

Esposito, Al-Ahram: The Real Questions for Egypt

In an interview with Ezzat Ibrahim, John L. Esposito*, a leading American scholar of Islamic affairs, examines the aftermath of the upheavals of the Arab Spring and the rise of

Ikhwanweb: Tony Blair’s MB Comments Out of Touch and Misguided

Mr. Blair’s skepticism of the Muslim Brotherhood’s commitment to genuine democracy by stating that “not clear that the type of democracy they [Muslim Brotherhood] would create would be a genuine

Why Islamists Are Better Democrats

If the Arab Spring was seeded by a liberal insurrection, the Arab Fall has brought a rich harvest for Political Islam. In election after election, parties that embrace various shades