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After years of success, our Arab world reporter’s strategy of avoiding the Christmas buzz backfires.
I consider myself a curmudgeon-in-training (I don’t have enough gray hairs to claim the actual title). Around this time of year, I tend to identify with Scrooge, the Grinch, George Bailey (prior to the angel’s arrival), and other fabled grumps.

For many years I’ve taken pleasure in l..

Three leading figures of the Middle East have rushed to revise and re-read the Holocaust from a completely immoral and inhumane perspective. Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad began by denying the massacre against Jews ever took place. Soon after, leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, reiterated the same ideas to be followed by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’’s supreme guide, Mahdi Akef.
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 Dec 26, 2005
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Essam el-Arian, a leading persona of the Muslim Brotherhood, voiced the group’s willingness to separate its D’awah (preaching) and political activities, only if the Egyptian political atmosphere provides an appropriate ground. Starting from this viewpoint, the Muslim Brotherhood securitizes the possibility of forming a political party, may be conserva..

In the farm work of cooperation with opposition MPs, the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc studies a draft law pertaining to Parties Law, prepared by the president of the Unified National Front for Change, Yahya el-Gamel, a Professor of constitutions at Cairo University.
 
The new bill designs a new formula for launching parties that grants a release form the government control. ..

Commenting on what he called President Ahmadinejad’s challenge of the existence of the Zionist state, Auzi Benzman wrote, on 14 December 2005, in the Haarez Daily Newspaper, “One of the reasons why Sadat acquiesced to Menachem Begen’s swindlings was the intransigent picture given of the Likud’s chief and the group of ministers surrounding him, including former chiefs of staff of the army and pr..

The Middle East appears to be changing. Its dictators are no longer immune from international justice. Their palaces are exposed to international pressure and their reign to increasing scrutiny by the people who already showed us that they can march in the streets of Lebanon, Egypt and even Syria. Elections have taken place not only in Iraq and the Palestinian Authority but also in Saudi Arabia..

Brotherhood’s Information Request on Government Refusal to Register Egyptian Medicines

The Muslim Brotherhood’s MP, Gamal Kearney, said he will introduce an information request to the new government’s premier and health minister relating to the refusal of the Investment Ministry to register 500 Egyptian medical preparations. This measure was a result of pressure exerted by the American ..

I was in Egypt when the Judge Noha el-Zeini bore her historic witness on the ballot rigging of Damanhore constituency during the recently concluded parliamentary polls. In spite of the critical situation where Mustafa el-Faqy is a heavyweight in the National Democratic Party and his competitor is the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, Gamal Hashemite, she persisted to disclose the reality. In..

The spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood’s parliamentary bloc, Hamdy Hassan, denies any decisions made by the group’s leadership concerning a halt of the bloc’s questionnaire to the government.  
 
: , el-Misery el-Youm daily has headlined boldly’Akef No Questionnaires’. In addition, the article author, Ragab Ramadan, quoted fake relevant statements of the Brotherhood’s lea..

In accordance with its scheme for continues political development, the Muslim Brotherhood ran training courses for its lawmakers in order to upgrade their parliamentary performance. The courses were held under the supervision of Muhammad Morsy, the head of the MB’s bloc in the outgoing parliament.
 
The training program included the explanation of the parliament’s regulation and its ..

The Muslim Brotherhood’s MP, Azab Mustafa, presented the first urgent account over the competencies of the new government.
 
In his account, he referred tothe Premier and the Finance Minister, he questioned the new procedure of merging the ministry of the Social Insurance, featured by social role, to that of the Finance, which merely concerns with economical co-operation. By the vir..

He is the Brotherhood’s smooth media man, the go-to guy journalists like to talk to when they need a fresh quote or want to know what the Brotherhood stands for and thinks. He spent time in Egypt’s dungeons, not because he’s a terrorist (he isn’t) but because, like Egypt’s liberals, he is an..

The Muslim Brotherhood’s MP, Gamal Carney, introduced an information request to the Premier and both ministers of Investment and Industry. The request pertains to the selling of Delta Company for Sugar to a foreign investor and its repercussions on the national sugar industry.
 
Actually, the state owns 58% of the company’s shares that are mortgaged for banks in loans of 360 million..

For those who wonder why the Egyptians, in describing their elections, use the Arabic word for "battle" rather than "campaign," the recent parliamentary elections provided a useful explanation. During the

final round of elections in early December, and facing gains by its foes, the Egyptian regime gave up all pretenses of openness and resorted to brute force. Some towns, particularly M..

No doubt the recent parliamentary polls resulted in profound changes in the Egyptian political map. The Muslim Brotherhood, officially outlawed, emerged at the forefront of the Egyptian opposition, picking up 88 seats while other opposition powers took 15 seats. Its stunning success unquestionably had manifold ripples. It broke the MB’s privacy putting it under the national and international mi..

Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary bloc succeeded to have The Port Said Free Trade Zone resolution defeated on the parliament floor pending further modifications before resubmission.

After stiff resistance from Brotherhood parliament members lead by Mr. Akram Elshaer, representative of the Governorate of Port Said, the government has decided to withdraw the draft of the new resolution wh..

Al Qaeda’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said in a video aired on Friday that U.S. President George W. Bush’s plans to withdraw troops from Iraq meant Washington had been defeated by the Muslims.

He also criticised Islamist groups, including Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood, for believing in Western-style democracy and taking part in elections.

"Bush, you must confess that you..

A group of political and human-rights personas of eight Arab nationalities announced the formation of ’the Arab Democrats’ Network’ established to foster political and peaceful reform in the Arab world.
 
’The new network is established to be a democracy beacon for advocates of peaceful and rational political reform in the Arab world. It is, in addition, intended to provide communica..

The rise of "political Islam" is intrinsically associated with the birth of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is why it is so crucial to study the history of this organisation. Founded in 1928 by Hassan El-Banna, its first supreme guide, the Muslim Brotherhood’s calling spread so rapidly that within a matter of years it evolved from a locally based group of proselytisers to a tightly structured soc..