Egyptian voters cast their ballots Tuesday for the Shura council, the country's upper house of Parliament, amidst widespread allegations of vote-rigging and outright government violence and intimidation.

The popular adage that the most concise book title is also the most attention grabbing isn't always true. A title like "The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a

Over the past 10 years, conditions in Egypt’s notorious jails have been steadily improving, said Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsoud, a lawyer for the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political organisation.

Several days ago, Nathan Brown, a political science professor at George Washington University, and I completed the manuscript for a book that will be published soon by the Carnegie Endowment

Amnesty International on Thursday called for a retrial of 26 defendants, criticizing the use of an emergency court.

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Mohamed ElBaradei has taken Egypt's stagnant political scene by storm since his reincarnation two months ago from Nobel Peace Prize–winning international nuclear watchdog to domestic reform campaigner.

Senior Azhar scholars called on Grand Imam Dr Ahmed Al-Tayeb to resign from the NDP Policies Committee.

Newly appointed top cleric Dr Ahmed Altayeb maintained that he appreciated the role of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement in Egypt.

“Islamists are trying to steer a course between governance, political processes and resistance,”