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FJP: No Alliance With Salafist Al Noor Party

The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) denied alleged alliance with the Salafist al-Noor Party, and confirmed that the only electoral coalition now is with the Democratic Alliance which includes 11

Commentary: “The Revolution Will Not Be Fetishized”

If the revolutions in the Arab world exposed any one thing, it’s the ease with which social media tools distribute sub-standard levels of commentary on the Middle East to large

Nat’l Consensus Conference Calls on Military to Protect Secular Nature of State

A meeting on Sunday ended with Egypt’s National Consensus agreeing that the new constitution should incorporate an article that presents the armed forces with the role of protecting Egypt’s civil

Syria – A Chink in the Armor?

Arab youth are full of hope as uprisings throughout the Middle East remove one tyrant after the other. However, while Tunis and Egypt have had a relatively smooth sail into

MB condemns the demolition of shrines

Dr. Abdel Rahman Al Barr from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Executive Bureau criticized recent actions by some members of the Salafist groups who engaged in destroying shrines in Egypt.

Does Optimism with Egyptian Revolution Fade with the Return of Sectarian Violence?

No one in Egypt would have imagined that with the outbreak of the revolution on January 25, many of the chronic problems that the Egyptian society had suffered for decades,

Tony Blair and the great Islamic threat

People often wind up believing their own cover story. Former British prime minister Tony Blair, for example, is trapped forever in the rationalizations he used in 2003 to explain why

Anti-incumbency feeling rises in Bahrain

As Bahrain heads toward elections for the lower house of Parliament in September or October, a climate of public unhappiness with the incumbents prevails.

Kuwait: Interview with Dr. Badr Al Nashi, president of the Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM)

Interview with Dr. Badr Al Nashi, president of the Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM) How has participation in Kuwaiti governments since the 1990s affected the ICM? Cabinet formation is different in