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cattered violence as Egyptians vote in run-offs
(Reuters)

15 November 2005

CAIRO - Scattered violence and allegations of vote-buying and intimidation on Tuesday marred Egyptian parliamentary run-off elections, many between the Islamist opposition and the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).

A woman was shot and injured outside a polling station ..

Sawasia Keeps an Eye on the 2005 Parliamentary Election
The First local report
Coincide with the beginning of running for 2005 parliamentary election, Sawasia (equals in Arabic) Center for Human Right and Anti-discrimination received an account of the process of running for the election, in numerous Egyptian governorates.

Cairo:

The riot police dispersed c..

Sawaseias Report Rejects the Violates in the Election Process
Ikhwan online
By Monir Adeeb
Sawaseia (means equals in Arabic) Center for Human Right and Anti-discrimination has released its first report on the contraventions that were committed on the first day of the process of running for 2005 parliamentary election. The report, entitled ’ an Eye on the Parliamentary Election’, drew..

Egypt lets rights groups monitor vote
  

President Hosni Mubarak won a fifth term with 89% of the vote
 

Egyptian rights groups will be allowed to monitor the parliamentary elections that begin in November, including watching vote counting, the committee overseeing the polls has said. 

Egyptian groups also monitored the September presi..

Akef: Reform in Egypt is Inevitable and the Eternal Rule is rejected
Ikhwan online 

 Muhammad Akef, the Supreme Guide of the Moslem Brotherhood, affirmed that the movement goes on its cooperation with all political and national powers to put an end to all patterns of corruption and deposition along with the consolidation of a comprehensive political and social reform.

A symposium Discussed (Islam is the Solution) Slogan
Ikhwan online
By Hussam Mahmmud
A symposium was held, on Oct.23, to discuss the essences of the slogan of the Moslem Brotherhood, ’Islam is the solution’. The participants hailed the choice of this slogan by the MB in its election campaigns for the parliamentary election, scheduled on the Nov.9.

At the beginning of the symp..

The Political Dialogue of the Moslem Brotherhood
Ikhwan online
By Ahmed el-Talawy
The new approach of the Moslem Brotherhood stimulated a series of possibilities to analyes the potential factors behind the movement’s revival.  This vivacity boosts its superiority over the opposition and placed it along with the National Democratic Party on the top of the political action.
The..

The MB Candidate’s Daughter is Attacked by the State Security
Ikhwan online By Muhammad Redaa
Muhammad el-Hawary, the Moslem Brotherhood’s standby candidate in Faqous, Sharqyia governorate, said that his daughter, a student at Al-Azhar University, has been beaten. A detective of the Sate Security has attempted to kidnap her in her way to the collage.
This incident is a threatening mas..

Tip of the iceberg
Jailan Halawi seeks clues amongst political analysts about why last week’s incidents occurred, and what they might foretell

 
A play performed two years ago at a church in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria has somehow sparked a riot that ended with three dead, scores injured, and -- most ominously -- a tangible rise in the tension between Muslims and Ch..

Akef Warns against Using Hariri’s Assassination for the US Benefit

Ikhwan online

By Muhammad el-Shreef

The Supreme Guide for the Moslem Brotherhood, Muhammad Akef, warns against the US intention to exploit the assassination of the Lebanese former prime minister, Rafeq el-Hariri, to achieve its planes that avail Israel or to use it as a means of pressure to end certain p..

Ikhwanul Muslimun’s standing on Muslim women in Islamic Society
Muslim Brotherhood on Muslim women in Islamic Society
The Role of Muslim Women in an Islamic Society

The Role of Muslim Women in an Islamic Society and the stand of the
Muslim Brotherhood regarding Womens’ rights to vote, be elected,
occupy public and governmental posts, and work in general.

Th..

Hosni Mubarak
Elections or no, he’s still Pharaoh.
By Tamara Wittes
Imagine that after Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974, Gerald Ford became president—for life. Imagine that over the next 24 years, he declared a state of emergency and ruled over a tame parliament and hobbled opposition, holding on to power through clever politicking, brute force, and good luck. Something like this sc..

Muslim Brotherhood Tech-Savvy in Egypt Polls

 The slogan of the Muslim Brotherhood in the upcoming elections.
 
By Mohamad Gamal Arafa, IOL Staff

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is getting tech-savvy in its preparations for the parliamentary elections in November with candidates posting their platforms on the Internet and launching an online radio to reach out t..

What turned Brent Scowcroft against the Bush Administration?
 

At eight o’clock on the morning of August 2, 1990, President George H. W. Bush assembled his National Security Council in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Thirteen hours earlier, Saddam Hussein had sent his Army into Kuwait, and the Administration was searching for a response. Brent Scowcroft, the President’s nat..

The Promise of Arab Liberalism 
 Tamara Cofman Wittes, Research Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies

Reprinted by permission of PolicyReview, (June & July 2004, Number 125).

The Middle East is, according to Freedom House, the least free region on the globe. It resisted even the third wave of democratization that swept through Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe ..

The 2005 Egyptian Elections: How Free? How Important?

Saban Center Middle East Memo #8

Tamara Cofman Wittes, Research Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy

On September 7, 2005, for the first time in their history, Egyptians will have a choice of candidates in a presidential election. When President Hosni Mubarak, who was elected to four previous terms in ’ye..

Behind the Ballot Box: Electoral Engineering in the Arab World
Marsha Pripstein-Posusney
The last decade has seen multi-party competition for elected legislatures initiated or expanded in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon and the Palestine Authority. Executive authority in most cases remains an uncontested, if not completely unelected, post. Nevertheless, i..

Egyptian Human Rights Organizations in Solidarity with Tunisian
Activists on Hunger Strike
 
Egyptian human rights organisations today expressed solidarity and support for Tunisian activists on a hunger strike for over ten days. The Egyptian NGOs have placed the blame on the Tunisian government and Tunisian President Zeinelabidin Bin Ali and hold them responsible for the safety of..

Waiting in the Wings
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

 By Azizuddin El-Kaissouni & Dina Abdel-Mageed**
Staff Writers – IslamOnline.net

 
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Deputy Supreme Guide Muhammad Habib in his office (photo from www.ikhwanonline.com)

 
The unassuming office that serves as the headquarters ..

Invitation to Breakfast

We, the mothers, wives, and children of detainees in all of Egypt’s prisons, have the pleasure of inviting you to a group iftar on Tuesday, 22 Ramadan, 25 October 2005, in front of the Egyptian Interior Ministry. We invite you to join us in preparing for the iftar by starting our protest march at noon on that day.

The iftar is composed of:

1. Mea..