Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website

TWO years ago, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s president, told fellow Arab leaders to reform, or risk being swept away in a global tide of democratisation. “Trim your hair now,” he warned them, “or someone w..

In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb following the landslide victory achieved by candidates of the Islamic Constitutional Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood chapter in Kuwait, the assistant Secretary General Dr. Nasser el Saneh expressed his gratitude to the Kuwaiti people for thei..

Alberto Gonzales, one of Bush’s legal architects of torture in the current war on terror has honoured us with a visit to Cairo, where he defended “extraordinary renditions” of Islamist suspects, but refused to confirm Egypt was (and is) one of..

Since the end of legislative elections in December 2005, the ruling elite of National Democratic Party (NDP) has been striving to shrink the spaces of political relaxation which came as a result of two-year struggle and efforts. This political relaxation reached its apex when Muslim Brotherhood (MB) won 88 seats of parliament. This striving can be easily evidenced by the series of resolutions t..

Kefaya is holding a press conference, 12 noon, publicizing the
findings of its report on Corruption in Egypt. The detailed report is the product of months of work by a group of the movement’s youth,academics and economists.
The conference will be held at the Egyptian Center for Studies,
building #15, 26th of July Street, behind Grand Hotel in Ramsis.

MOND..

More than 9,300 Palestinian prisoners live in inhumane conditions in about 30 Israeli prisons, with no attention given to them by the international community. Two months ago, former Palestinian prisoners, who headed most of the governmental and NGOs Palestinian organizations caring for the Palestinian prisoners, launched a comprehensive campaign to free the prisoners and appealed to the Interna..

11 leading states topped by the US stand behind torture in Egypt and Middle East countries. 

Why did scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamu prisons pass the Arab countries unnoticed?
Th..

Among the ironies of Egypt’s stalled process of political reform is that it is inextricably linked to the future of 42-year old presidential scion Gamal Mubarak. The younger Mubarak fashions himself as a ..

The Kuwaiti parliamentary elections (KPE) represent a critical turning point towards real democratic

Recent editorials in the New York Times and Washington Post (among others) about how the Palestinians are getting their come-uppance in the current bombing of Gaza are so far removed from any semblance of reality and attempt at neutrality you have to wonder whether these newspapers don’t live in an alternate reality. They’re not even worth linking to, but

I don’t know when, but it was likely sometime during the 1990s Dirty War that the Egyptian Interior Ministry decided to change its motto, usually printed on dusty signs that top police stations’ entrances, from “The Police is in Service of the People,” to “

Money transfer agencies like Western Union have delayed or blocked thousands of cash deliveries on suspicion of terrorist connections simply because senders or recipients have names like Mohammed or Ahmed, company officials said.

In one example, an Indian driver here said Western Union prevented him from sending US$120 to a friend at home this month because the..

The Muslim Brotherhood is pressing on with arguably its most ambitious endeavor to date. A movie. The theme is the life of the outlawed group’s founder, social and political reformer Hassan Al Banna. A life and times of the embattled leader, as the cliché goes.

In much the same way that Banna’s own life and death was controversial, the prospect of a film has tr..

The issue of modernization and imitation rises from time to time. This issue is often put forth as a form of criticism for MB on the grounds that the group refuses modernization.

In some analyses, some MB cadres are looked at as symbols of political modernization within the group and those who hold this view believe that such cadres do not represent the MB. Actually, this view, circulat..

A delegation from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood MPs topped by Dr. Hamdy Hassan, spokesperson of the MB Parliamentary Bloc, and his deputy met with Ms. Geneve Abdu, the researcher with the UN Secretary General Office, who conducted a dialogue with the MB representatives concerning their vision toward some political issues which the UN Secretary General will count on for his evaluatio..