National Journal, 7/15/11 - Just six months ago, Islam Lotfy seemed like the new face of the Muslim Brotherhood. The 33-year-old human rights lawyer and other “young brothers” lobbied the sclerotic Islamist party to join the demonstrations that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak. Lot...

 كنت أتوقع أن تثير التصريحات التى أطلقها الدكتور ميلاد حنا منذ أيام عاصفة من ردود الأفعال الغاضبة والرافضة، لما جاء فيها من عبارات تعبر للأسف عن تعصب شديد ورفض الآخر، وتغذية لدعاوى طائفية، لم يكن يصح أن تصدر عن مفكر ومثقف كبير. وحسب نص التصريحات التى تناقلتها الصحف ووسائل الإعلام عن مجلة المصو...

 WSJ - 4/9/11 Two months after Hosni Mubarak's ouster, Egyptian politics are a dervish of confused agitation. Each day, it seems, a new party forms to fill liberal, Nasserist, Marxist, Islamist and other niches. A joke has it that 10% of Egyptians plan to run for president. "All Egyptian...

Almasry Alyoum, 7/4/11 A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood has stated that the group's political party, which is still under construction, counts women and Copts among its founding members. “Founders of our group’s Freedom and Justice Party include Copts and women,” said th...

الخميس، 11 نوفمبر 2010  جاءت نتائج المجمع الانتخابى للحزب الوطنى الديمقراطى لترشيحات مجلس الشعب مفرحة للبعض ومحزنة للبعض الآخر، والمؤكد أن الكل توقف أمام ظاهرة تحدث لأول مرة فى ترشيحات الحزب، وهى الدفع بأكثر من مرشح على المقعد الواحد فى الدائرة الواحدة، ووصل الحال فى بعض الدوائر إلى طرح ثلا...

 AFP, 10/25/2010 CAIRO — The authorities in Egypt arrested 70 members of the outlawed opposition Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday as they were putting up election posters ahead of November polls, the group and security sources said. "Police arrested around 70 Brotherhood members at ...

 الإثنين، 25 أكتوبر 2010 - 19:26 يمكننى أن أعد لك عزيزى القارئ هنا فى هذا المكان عشرات الأخطاء التى ارتكبها الإخوان المسلمون على مدار مسيرتهم منذ نشأة الجماعة فى عشرينيات القرن الماضى وحتى اليوم ويمكننى أن أتقدم بكتاب لا أول له ولا آخر عن أخطاء المعارضة ورموزها سواء تلك التى تمارس معارضة حقي...

10/10/2010 CAIRO (WSJ)--The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful opposition force, said over the weekend that it will enter parliamentary elections next month, ending weeks of speculation as to whether the Islamist group would launch campaigns or join calls for a boycott of the vote. Moha...

9/8/2010 CAIRO (Reuters) - A senior member of Egypt's ruling party said on Wednesday the Muslim Brotherhood had failed to provide an effective parliamentary opposition, in the latest hint that the Islamists may be sidelined in November elections. In an interview with Reuters, Ali El Din Hillal, hea...

BBC, 8/24/2010 Egypt's opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, has launched its own Facebook-style social networking site. A senior member of the banned Islamist group says the aim is to spread awareness of moderate Islamic values. The Brotherhood's version - Ikhwanbook - looks similar to Fa...

BBC, 6/3/2010 Egypt's biggest opposition group has said it will back the former UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei's political change campaign, reports say. The Muslim Brotherhood failed to win any seats in elections to the upper legislative house on Wednesday. It alleged the vote for the...

 By Rasha Dewedar - CAIRO - Middle East Online, 4/9/10 In a report published last month on violent crimes committed against women in 2009, Karam Saber Ibrahim, Executive Director of The Land Center for Human Rights, a Cairo-based non-governmental organisation, spoke of a belief that some Egypt...

2/10/10 CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities have accused detained senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's biggest opposition group, of trying to set up training camps for staging attacks, the group's lawyer said on Wednesday. Three senior officials of the Brotherhood were among 1...

 CAIRO (AP) 1/16/2010 -- Egypt's largest opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, announced Saturday it has chosen a new leader, a conservative academic who looks unlikely to challenge the government's relentless crackdown on the group. The outlawed Muslim Brotherhood managed to make a str...

 12/21/09 CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's main opposition group announced the results of an election for its governing body and analysts said most of the 16 members are conservatives, signaling that it will reduce its role in mainstream politics. The Muslim Brotherhood's new governing body excl...

By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI (AP) – Oct 30, 2009 CAIRO — The Middle East's most powerful Islamic political movement is undergoing a leadership struggle as young, more moderate activists try to push the Muslim Brotherhood to soften its fundamentalist ideology and become a more democratic force. ...

By Samer al-Atrush (AFP) –10/20/09 CAIRO — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was swift in its rejection of reports that its leader resigned after a row with conservatives, but the crisis exposed a profound rift among the Islamists, analysts said. The Brotherhood was reacting to front page rep...

By Ashraf Khalil, AlMasry AlYoum, 8/20/09 Just four years ago, the Muslim Brotherhood was running high. Years of quiet grassroots activity, despite an official ban and routine government crackdowns, paid massive dividends at the polling booths during parliamentary elections in November 2005. Runnin...

Alarabiya.net, 5/10/09 The recent controversial statements by Mahdi Akef, the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, during a conference convened by the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc entitled "Conference on Jerusalem, al-Aqsa Mosque and the dangers of Judaization" are completely...

Wall Street Journal 5/15/09  ALEXANDRIA, Egypt -- Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is on the defensive, its struggles reverberating throughout Islamist movements that the secretive organization has spawned world-wide. Just recently, the Brothers' political rise seemed unstoppable. Candidates linked ...

التجربة الشخصية تعبير له من السطوة والمصداقية الكثير.. ولكنه يحمل أيضاً نفس القدر من الخداع والمراوغة.. هى كلمة سحرية ولكن ذات شراك، مغامرة ولكن بأنياب.. فإذا كانت كتب التجارب الخاصة والسير الذاتية تحظى بأعلى نسب الترويج والتوزيع، إلا أن المحصلة لطرفى المعادلة وهما المؤلف والقارئ قد تكون مختلفة وبلا...

علمت «المصرى اليوم» أن جماعة الإخوان المسلمين انتهت من تعديل برنامج حزب الإخوان، وأنها ستعلن الصياغة النهائية خلال شهر. كشف المهندس سعد الحسينى، عضو مكتب الإرشاد، عضو الكتلة البرلمانية للإخوان، لـ«المصرى اليوم»، عن تسليم اللجنة المنوط بها إعداد البرنامج النسخة النهائية لمكتب...

Al-Masry Al-Youm learnt that the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has amended the platform of its party. The final text would be announced in a month. Saad Al-Husseini, member of the MB Guidance Bureau and the parliamentary bloc, told the daily that the platform will be made public within a few months, wi...

AP, Dec. 18 2008 CAIRO, Egypt: An Egyptian security official says police have rounded up 22 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group. The official says all are accused of belonging to a banned group. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to th...

May 30, 2008 - by Holly Fletcher, US Council on Foreign Relations Introduction Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), a militant Islamist group which emerged in the 1970s, changed its focus in 2001. Originally bent on installing a religious government in Egypt, the group joined forces with Osama bin Laden...

محمود عبد الرحيم الحوار مع مرشد الإخوان المسلمين مهدي عاكف لم يكن سهلاً، فالرفض كان الرد الأول على طلب المقابلة، ثم مع الأخذ والرد والإلحاح على مدى ثلاثة أسابيع جرى تحديد موعد... كنت اشك في الوفاء به لآخر لحظة، على خلفية الحديث المتواتر عن تحجيم عاكف سياسيًا وإعلاميًا، خاصة مع زلات اللسان التي ت...

As translated from the original by Mahmoud Abed ElRehiem The dialogue with the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Mahdy Akef, was not easy. The first request for an interview was denied, and after speaking with him and nagging him for three weeks, finally we had an appointment. I doubted...

Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2008; Page A16 - by Bret Stephens What if Gaza were to conquer Egypt? The possibility is not as remote as it may seem just by glancing at the map. Egypt has more than 50 times the population of its former colony and 2,800 times the landmass. But Gaza is sovere...

On June 20, 2007, the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research convened a meeting of U.S. intelligence officials to weigh the prospect of formal engagement with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood,[1] known in Arabic as al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin. The session was the result of several y...

Is it possible to acclimate the “Islamic” movements with the democratic traditions? Firstly, Answering this question is not predicting the unknown. Though, the answer to this question deals with the prediction frame of reference. Futuristic assumptions are a science itself. How...

كتب محمد مجاهد ٧/١١/٢٠٠٧ وجه المهندس نجيب ساويرس، رئيس مجلس إدارة شركة أوراسكوم تليكوم، انتقادات حادة لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين. قال في مؤتمر صحفي عقده مساء أمس الأول: «لا يوجد مسيحي في مصر ينتظر من جماعة الإخوان أن تتفضل وتتنازل لتمنح القبطي الحق في...

At a press conference the day before yesterday, Orascom Telecom CEO Naguib Sawiris lashed out at the Muslim Brotherhood, saying that no Christian in Egypt "expects the Brotherhood will kindly deign to give a Copt the right to be a president because as Copts we need no one to teach us the rights...

Islamization is a worldwide ideology identical to the “International Communist” ideology. Just as International Communist wanted to spread communism around the world, Islamization wants dominate over the world and convert the world to Islam. But the danger is that it uses Islam as a...

الإسلامية الدولية هى ايدلوجية عالمية مثل الشيوعية الدولية، وكما كانت الشيوعية الدولية تبغى نشر الشيوعية حول العالم فإن الإسلامية الدولية تبغى السيطرة على العالم وأسلمته ولكن خطورتها إنها تستخدم الإسلام كدين لبسط هذه السيطرة وتبرر كل شئ بمبررات دينية، وتقول أن هدفها فى النهاية هو هدف دينى بمعنى تحويل...

  The US has a long-standing “no negotiation or dialogue” policy when it comes to terrorist groups, and it is clear that the Muslim Brothers share many of the ideologies of a terrorist group.  On the Muslim Brother’s website, Imam Albanna briefly states the goals that th...

Our series on the 2006 International Religious Freedom Report on Egypt continues emphasizing the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood and the policies of the Egyptian Government. The Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian Government USIRF report: The Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist politi...

حوار مجدي مهنا المذيع : نناقش ما جاء في كتابك التكفير بين الشيعة والوهابية والصوفية . هل الاقباط كان معهم بعض الحق في ردود الفعل واستنكارهم فيما جاء في الكتاب خاص بهم ام لا ؟ د/ عمارة: ليس هناك أي حق لاي إنسان في هذا الذي حدث لماذا ؟ أنا كتبت كتاب عن فتنة التكفير يعني ضد مبدأ التكفير لكنه في د...

I nominate Dr. Sorour to be the next leader of the Muslim Brothers due to his comments during the crisis following the Minister of Culture’s remarks on the veil, and due to the following statement: “The Constitution includes rules that are above the constitution itself. The Constitution ...

What do the Muslim Brothers really want in Egypt? According to the newly published program details on their website, the Muslim Brothers are applying to form a civil political party with an Islamic reference. This party will successfully avoid the constitutional amendment that prohibits any religi...