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A Panel Discussion sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Panelists:
Michele Dunne, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Emad Shahin, American University in Cairo and Georgetown University
Amr Hamzawy, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Moderator:
Nathan Brown, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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In light of efforts to plant democracy in the Middle East, it is important to understand something of the history of the Muslim Brotherhood.  This is important because the Islamic movements in the Arab countries are variations of the Muslim Brotherhood, and would probably follow its example.

So, what can we expect if the Islamists, by way of legitimate democr..

Nobel laureate hails Islamist success in Egypt

 Egyptian writer and Nobel Prize for literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz has welcomed the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in his homeland where they secured 20 percent of parliament in recent elections.

"Exclusion breeds fanaticism, whereas inclusion encourages give and take," he was quoted as saying in state-owned newspapers on ..

Can the Islamists win?

BARRY RUBINHow far can Islamist movements go in gaining power in the Arab world? This is an urgent question given massive gains by Islamists in Egyptian, Palestinian, and Iraqi elections.
  The answer depends on the specific country but also on some other interesting factors that are usually ignored.

  First, most Arab Muslims are what mig..

Bush must keep in check Egypt’s desperate despot
U.S. president cannot allow Mubarak to derail democracy, says Haroon Siddiqui

First in Turkey and then in Iraq, Islamists swept the elections. In Lebanon, Hezbollah won seats in areas where it’s active. Now in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has made historic gains, despite official intimidation, fraud, thuggery and the killing of 11 and..

Egypt’s Ugly Election

THE LAST DAYS of Egypt’s month-long parliamentary election were shameful. Government security forces and gangs of thugs from the ruling National Democratic Party blockaded access to dozens of polling sites where opposition candidates were strong. In several cases they opened fire on citizens who tried to vote; 10 people were reported killed. Inside the election sta..

Look Who’s Getting Votes
Egyptian fundamentalists are gaining clout through the ballot box. Is this the future of Arab democracy?

Posters on the wall herald the march of Islam, but tonight the Cairo headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood is a different kind of war room. Essam el-Erian, chief political strategist for the banned but officially tolerated fundamentalist group, perfor..

Egypt’s MB Conditions US Talks on Govt. OK

 
“It (dialogue) should take place under the supervision of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry,” Habib said

 
Additional Reporting By Ahmed Fathy, IOL Correspondent

– Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has set as a condition a state supervision over any possible dialogue with the United States, after the group’s stunning perf..

Muslim Brotherhood victory worries Egypt

If the Muslim Brotherhood had its way, alcohol would be banned in Egypt and violators punished with up to 30 lashes and tough fines.

Though the proposal was defeated four years ago, it illustrates an Islamic fundamentalist agenda many in Egypt fear.

A small but outspoken band of 15 Brotherhood lawmakers in the outgoing parliament ..

A war and its fearsome consequences: How the world has changed post-Iraq
President Bush said yesterday that ’the year 2005 will be a turning point in the history of freedom’. But since the start of the war the days have been littered with unintended consequences.

Iran

The Iraqi elections provided a classic illustration of the law of unintended consequences: the Americans ov..

Jihad or Ballot-Box?  
   
 
 
 
George W. Bush’s policy of encouraging democracy in the Middle East has hit a bump in the road in the last few weeks. Elections to the Egyptian People’s Assembly had promised to be another step toward democratization in a country that Mr. Bush has looked to as a pathbreaker for the region. But several rounds..

The Brotherhood is coming!

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood achieved spectacular gains in the parliamentary elections. This success was more than they could have hoped for despite the best efforts of the ruling National Democratic Party.
The outlook is worrying. One witnessed government candidates failing to retain their seats as other unknown candidates won. Across Egyptian..

Is the Egyptian government at war with its people?

  
  
 
When riot police point rifles loaded with rubber bullets at Egyptians trying to vote we have to ask: Is the Egyptian government at war with its people?
When women huddle in a corner out of fear of these same security forces, we have to ask are we in Egypt or in Iraq, from where Arab media dai..

Embracing The Brotherhood

   
Rami G. Khouri is editor at large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune.

The moment of reckoning about the next stage of Arab political development is upon us faster than anticipated, with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt winning 88 seats out of a to..

Wink, wink, nod, nod

 --  Washington’s characterization of Egypt’s recent parliamentary election as another important step on the road to democracy is trumped only by President Hosni Mubarak’s cynical demand for a review of the election’s widespread violence and voter disenfranchisement.

Like the aging ruler had no knowledge of why at least 10 people were killed a..

Israelis Grow Troubled by Bush Priorities

 Despite their mutual enthusiasm for ousting Saddam, Israel and the
United States appear increasingly at odds over what to do about the larger Middle
East region.

While the administration of President George W. Bush favors, or is at least
indifferent to, the collapse of the Ba’athist regime of Syrian President Bashar <..

Democracy, it turns out, is a double-edged sword in American hands. How can one make spreading democracy the ostensible basis for conducting foreign policy while invading and occupying another country; maintaining that the United States is above international law; disregarding the Geneva Conventions through a semantic exercise so that terrorism suspects can be tortured in third countries; m..