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The Supporters of the MB Candidate in Quesna are Attacked
Ikhwan online
By Moneer Adeeb

A massive marsh to show the support to the Moslem Brotherhood’s nominee of Quesna, Essa Abdel Gafar, was attacked by the supporters of the National Democratic Party’s candidate, Nabeel Hanko.

About 6000 persons went in this marsh that started after the Night Prayer. The Supporters of ..

The MB Marsh in el-Wasety is attacked
Ikhwan online
By Muhammad Sho’ab

The supporters of the National Democratic Party candidate, Essam Khallaf, have attacked the supporters of the Moslem Brotherhood’s nominee, Muhammad el-Deeb, in Akfer Abteeg, Bany Sowaf governorate.

Former female prisoners ripped the posters of the MB candidate. They also insulted and threw stones on h..

Views on the MB and Islamist Movements
By Rafeeq Habeeb
Ikhwan online

Due to many aspects, it becomes crucial to discuss the relation between the Moslem Brotherhood with other Islamist movements. The widespread controversy over the modern Islamist current caused by international and local changes is on one side. The Islam application to everyday life is on the other side.

Abu el-Fotoh: Reform is Product of Cooperative Efforts
Dr. Abdel Monam Abu el-Fotoh, a member of the Supreme Council of the Moslem Brotherhood and the General Secretary of the Arab Physicians’ Union, proclaimed that the upcoming parliamentary election is the turning point of the Egyptian political life. He also stressed that the Moslem Brotherhood, in participation with other political power..

The NDP Candidate in Abu el-Matameer Threatens to Jail people
Ikhwan online

Detention is the last choice for the National Democratic Party in Abu el-Matameer district to halt the increasing popularity of the Moslem Brotherhood’s candidate, Abdel Wahab el-Deeb. He vowed to report the State Security if any one sticks the MB nominee’s posters.

On Oct.28th, while the residents ..

The Posters of MB Candidate in Faquos are Ripped
Ikhwan online
By Muhammad Reada

The electoral posters of the Moslem Brotherhood’s candidate in Faquos, Ismail Abdel Haleem, and the MB nominee in Ashker, Amgad Mahmmud Abdel Aziz, were ripped. It is said that the police is the real perpetrator.

It is remarkable that this act is committed in rival-free districts. Therefore,..

voter boxes in Egypt

 Cairo - Egyptians will cast their ballots in transparent boxes in parliamentary elections scheduled for November, the electoral commission decided on Monday.

"Transparent boxes will allow everyone to see what goes inside and this in every polling station and throughout the three-stage parliamentary elections," the official Mena news agency reported. <..

Syria’s Assad pardons 190 political prisoners
Source: Reuters
 By Suleiman al-Khalidi

DAMASCUS, (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday pardoned 190 political prisoners in a step widely seen as aiming at broader internal reforms to deflect U.S. pressure, rights groups and officials said.

The measure, which the state news agency SANA said was meant to..

Court battles keep Egypt’s Nour from vote campaign
By Edmund Blair
Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour began the parliamentary election campaign with a hectic schedule. But he wasn’t busy winning over voters.

The leader of the Ghad (Tomorrow) party was fighting legal battles which his party says the state has timed to derail his campaign for the parliamentary polls in November ..

Mubarak: Polls to boost legislative reform
Egypt

Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak said that the parliamentary polls, scheduled to start on November 9, complement the drive for constitutional and legislative reform.

He added that the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) was seeking majority in the Parliament in order to back the government in achieving transformation to democ..

Why the Brotherhood disappoints Filed under

 Egypt,

 Issandr El Amrani

 As many of you know, there was a Muslim Brotherhood organized protest on Wednesday evening, with one of the bigger turnouts we’ve seen in a while in Cairo (turnouts in the governorates–the areas of Egypt outside of Cairo–tend to be higher, especially when Brotherhood-led). Although som..

Elections in Egypt: Time to Back Up Our Rhetoric with Action
Posted by Shadi Hamid
Lorelei Kelly has asked me to guest blog this week. For more about me, click here. Over the course of the next few days, I will be discussing the upcoming Egyptian parliamentary elections and, more generally, the sorry state of democracy in the Arab world . The question I will be asking throughout is how t..

 Democracy also means that Islamists are allowed to vote 
 
 
When Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced recently that Egypt would, for the first time in its history, hold a multi-candidate president election, the international community reacted with collective surprise. Some, perhaps prematurely, hailed this as a courageous move. Others, particularly in the U...

Remarks at the American University in Cairo

Secretary Condoleezza Rice
Cairo, Egypt

Thank you very much, Dr. Hala Mustafa, for that really kind and warm introduction and your inspiring thoughts about democracy here in the region. I am honored to be here in the great and ancient city of Cairo.

The United States values our strategic relationship and our strengthening e..

Reform without reformers
Is the influence of the NDP’s pro-reform wing ebbing, asks Omayma Abdel-Latif
Hossam Badrawi, head of the outgoing People’s Assembly’s Education Committee and an NDP candidate, appeared in no mood to mince his words when asked to speak about the elections during a seminar last week. In what was interpreted as an acknowledgment of the growing frustration within th..

Challenges and Prospects of Political Liberalization in Egypt
By Amr Hamzawy 
House Committee on International Relations
Hearing “Redefining Boundaries: Political Liberalization in the Arab World” 
  
 The Arab world is changing. Confronted with increasingly disenchanted domestic populations and Western efforts to promote democracy in the region, a repr..

The shape of things to come
By taking their case for political reform to the street the Muslim Brotherhood are helping to reshape the politics of dissent, reports Omayma Abdel-Latif

 When Mohamed Mahdi Akef, the Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme guide, told a press conference last Wednesday that the group was planning to hold a rally to protest the current political stalemate, one r..

Democratic Change in Egypt?

JONATHAN MANN, CNN HOST: Have Egyptians had enough? As the regime swings between signs of reform and repression, a small democracy movement is gaining confidence. Can it convince the country to follow and force Hosni Mubarak’s hand?
Hello and welcome.

Here’s a quick look at an activist’s agenda for Wednesday in Cairo. The Egyptian Doctor’s Sy..

Democracy in the Arab world: an assessment
 Rami G. Khouri
Much as it has been for the past century, the Arab world remains caught, and nearly politically immobilized, between three forces that define and confound it: the self-interested interventions of foreign powers, the self-preservation instincts of its small ruling elites, and the frustrated self-expression yearnings of its ow..