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Egypt: dynamics of regime and opposition
 Amr Hamzawy
Hosni Mubarak landed a sweeping victory (88.6 percent) in Egypt’s first multi-candidate presidential election on September 7. The election represented a step forward toward opening up a persistently autocratic regime. It revitalized the political scene and partially minimized citizens’ apathy toward politics. However, to describe..

Female Islamist eyes Egyptian parliament seat
WORLD BRIEFINGS
By Sharon Otterman
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
 CAIRO
    Soft-spoken Makarim Eldery hopes to become the first female Islamist elected to the Egyptian par-liament. The 55-year-old widow and mother of six is officially running for parliament as an independent, but her true affiliation -- with the banned Mu..

About the Election: A voter’s guide 
 

By Sabry Abdul Bassit and Atef Awad Hassan

The answers to these questions were provided by the 2005 Political Rights Law with assistance from Atef El Banna, professor of constitutional law at Cairo University and Abd El Gafar Shoukra, vice president of the Arab and African Research Center.

Q: What is different about..

Mubarak says turnout will be key to elections
 
Agencies
 
Cairo: Turnout will be the main measure of success for the parliamentary elections kicking off this week, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in an interview published yesterday.
"Participation and turnout are key to the success of the elections in the same way they were key to the success of the president..

Opposition in Egypt
Performance in the Presidential Election
and Prospects for the Parliamentary Elections

By Amr Hamzawy

Hosni Mubarak landed a sweeping 88.6 percent victory in Egypt’s first multicandidate

presidential election on September 7, 2005. The election represented a step forward on the

road to open up a..

Egyptian election campaign heats up

SALAH NASRAWI

Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt - After sunset, young campaign workers fan out in a middle-class Cairo neighborhood, wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "Islam is the solution" and playing audio tapes on which singers declare, "The world is thirsty for Islam."

Banned in Egypt for decades, the Muslim Brotherho..

Egypt’s Copts feel neglected as election nears

By Mohammed Abbas

CAIRO (Reuters) - Coptic Christians and Muslims clapped, cheered and beat drums at a rally for a Coptic candidate in Egypt’s November parliamentary elections, but amid talk of unity some spoke in hushed voices of sectarian tensions.

A Coptic candidate in Alexandria withdrew his name last month after three p..

The Muslim Brotherhood  Demands Two Moroccans to be Released

Ikhwan online
The Muslim Brotherhood appealed the kidnappers of the two Moroccans, in Iraq, to release them immediately. The two hostages are Abdel Raheem Bualam, 55 years, who is a driver at the Moroccan Embassy in Baghdad and Abdel Kreem El-mahafzy, 49 years, who is a technician.

The Supreme Guide for the M..

Egypt readies for legislative election
  
A pedestrian passes al-Ghad party election posters in Cairo
 
 
Egyptians are preparing to vote in legislative elections that start on Wednesday, two months after President Hosni Mubarak swept to a fifth six-year mandate with 88.6% of the vote.

The three-phase election is to begin with eight go..

Egypt ordered to give poll monitors unfettered access
CAIRO - A Cairo court ruled on Sunday that human rights and civic groups should be given unfettered access to monitor this month’s parliamentary elections after several filed suit against the electoral commission last week.

The court acknowledged “the right for civic organizations to monitor the vote inside and outside polling..

Muslim Brotherhood Woman Seeks Egypt Seat
 By NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD,
 Associated Press Writer

 
The hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters marching and waving posters touting their candidate for parliament were mostly men. The few women there were segregated at the back of the line — except for one: the candidate herself.

Makarem Eldery, 55, is the only w..

Egypt detains Muslim Brotherhood candidate

Egyptian police have arrested and detained a member of the Muslim Brotherhood running for a seat in next week’s parliamentary elections, interior ministry and Brotherhood sources said.

Issam Mokhtar became the first candidate from the banned but usually tolerated Islamist group to be detained since campaigning for the November 9 polls ..

Egyptians vote Wednesday
Egyptians begin voting for a new parliament Wednesday. The legislative election is seen as a crucial test of Egypt’s democratic reforms. Most of the main opposition parties have united into a single coalition, and they are hoping for a dramatic increase in the number of opposition seats in the People’s Assembly.

Egypt’s opposition parties have gotten togeth..

Dubious Democracy on the Nile

CAIRO -- President Hosni Mubarak’s overwhelming victory in Egypt’s presidential election in September came as no surprise. But it raised an important question: Will this month’s parliamentary elections, which most Egyptians regard as the true test of recent political reforms here, be more fair and transparent -- and less predictable in their outcome?

Moslem Brotherhood and the Methodology of Reform (23)

By Mahmmud Ezet, the Secretary General of the Moslem Brotherhood

Ikhwan Online 

Why does the Moslem Brotherhood insist to apply the Islamic version of reform? This question was answered in the last article where we stated eight general characteristics of the Islamic reform:

1-    It covers..

The Moslem Brotherhood’s Methodology of Reform (13):
By Mahmmud Ezet, the Secretary General of Moslem Brotherhood.

Ikhwan online

 Reform is unquestionable. Its methodology ..

Referendum: The Muslim Brotherhood Candidates are leading
By Yasser Hady

A plebiscite held by the well-known site, www.mooga.com, shows the Muslim Brotherhood candidates leading other nominees of the parliamentary election.

The site posed a question; who will you elect in the upcoming parliamentary election?  ..

The Moslem Brotherhood’s Methodology of Reform (33)

By Dr. Mahmmud Ezet, the Secretary General of the Moslem Brotherhood

In order to give a complete answer to the question; why does the Moslem Brotherhood insist on the Islamic ideology of reform? We have shown eight prime features of Islamic reform, and then we refute the justifications of choosing another method..

Islam Takes Center Stage in Egypt Election

CAIRO, Egypt
(AP)

 (AP) After sunset, young campaign workers fan out in a middle-class Cairo neighborhood, wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "Islam is the solution" and playing audio tapes on which singers declare, "The world is thirsty for Islam."

Banned in Egypt for decades, the Muslim Brotherhood is making ..

Egypt’s Opposition United for Parliamentary Poll
By Challiss McDonough

United opposition hope to loosen the grip that Mr. Mubarak’s National Democratic Party holds on parliament with 80 percent of seats
Egyptians begin voting for a new parliament Wednesday. The legislative election is seen as a crucial test of Egypt’s democratic reforms. Most of the main opposition parties have..