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Replying to a question about recognizing Israel, Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy chief of Hamas Political Bureau, asked: which Israel to recognize?” Is it Israel which annexed Jerusalem, or Israel which annexed the Golan Heights? Where are the borders of Israel which are sought to be recognized? Does the West Bank falls within Israel’s borders? And what about the Israeli settlements: do they fall..

Turkey, Pakistan, Morocco, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Palestine ... In the course of the last two years, everywhere in the Arab-Muslim world where governments have organized democratic elections (local or national), Islamist parties have enjoyed spectacular progress. It’s a general movement, an impressive, ideologically-founded current that it would be pointless to deny a..

After the Muslim Brotherhood achieved unprecedented success in Egypt’s parliamentary elections late last year, I talked to the movement’s spokesman, Essam al-Erian. He tried to reassure me that the group is politically moderate: "We seek a democratic, parliamentary republic that respects the rights of all citizens."

He explained that the Brotherhood supports freedom of speech, assembly,..

If it is true that the captain of the doomed Egyptian ferry did indeed abandon his ship, leaving the passengers to fend for themselves, then his behaviour was an apt metaphor for the Muslim world: it is lost at sea without a captain.
In fact, the entire ferry tragedy is a microcosm of what most ails us – lack of wise leadership, lack of accountability and a cavalier disregard for human life,..

GEORGE W. Bush is not a man for second thoughts, but even he might have had some recently. Ever since 9/11, Bush has made the promotion of democracy in the Middle East the centrepiece of his foreign policy, and doggedly pushed the issue. Over the last few months, however, this approach has borne strange fruit, culminating in Hamas’s victory in Gaza and the West Bank.

Before that, we..

The cartoons aren’t exactly knee-slappers. Quite the contrary: Even allowing for the fact that political cartoons usually defy translation, no matter how funny or incisive they are, the 12 drawings published in September by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten strike me as lame and unsophisticated, crudely equating Islam’s prophet Muhammad -- and thus, by clear implication, all of Islam -- with..

No-one seems to be making the link between yesterday’s riot at an Egyptian ferry terminal following the Red Sea tragedy and the more widespread riots over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons. But in fact it throws some light on the nature of Middle Eastern politics.

Firstly, it shows why so many people in these countries vote for the likes of Hamas. They assume from long experience that their..

Only two days separated the commemoration of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination and the day on which Khaled Meshaal, member of the Hamas political bureau, spoke about Hamas’ upcoming steps, in the wake of its sweeping victory in the Palestinian legislative elections.

On 30 January 1948 , the preacher of non-violence and the leader of Indian resistance, Mahatma Gandhi, was killed when a Hin..

Alon Ben-Meir has just returned from a second extensive trip in as many months to Israel, Egypt, and Palestine where he met with scores of government officials, political party leaders, academics and ordinary citizens. This is the last article in a series of three reflecting some of his findings.

No country is better positioned than Egypt to influence Hamas to renounce violence, recogni..

Awlad Haritna should be published in Egypt

The Muslim Brotherhood won a third of the seats in the People’s Assembly in the recent parliamentary elections. The officially outlawed group would probably have won more had it not been for the violence inflicted upon its supporters by security forces and NDP thugs.

The election results surprised many Egyptian intellectuals who expres..

Areab Monir Maqbol, 26, is the youngest member of the Palestinian municipal council. Last December, she won the elections in Jenean City of the West Bank. Although her success crowns stories of patience and struggle of the
Palestinian women, it has a special favor since she is a Hamas activist, whose stunning victory in polls sparked fears of some Palestinian sectors over civil f..

In an ironic move, and while the world is witnessing a heated debate over Freedom of Expression by the press after the publication of the Prophet’s Cartoons, Daniel Ayalon, the Israeli Ambassador to the US raised eyebrows when he wrote a letter to two prominent American newspapers protesting publication of two articles by Hamas Leaders.

 Mr. Ayalon in his letter to the Washington P..

The former Syrian vice president Abdul Halim Khaddam met Ali Sadruddin al-Bayanoni, the exiled leader of the Ikhwan al-Muslimoun (Muslim Brotherhood) in Syria, in Brussels this week, informed sources told IRNA Thursday.

Al-Bayanoni lives in exile in Germany while Khaddam lives in exile in France.

The news of the Brussels meeting has been confirmed by the Ikhwan’s official webs..

This interview took place before the outbreak of protests against the publishing in Europe of cartoons depicting Mohammed.

Following the electoral victory of Hamas in Palestine, I was struck again by how many lives are devoted to beliefs, agendas and passions about which so many of us remain recklessly ill-informed. Reza Aslan, in his book "No god But God: The Origins, Evolution and Fut..

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide, Mr. Muhammad Akef, called on kidnappers of the American reporter,  Jill Carrol, to set her free in order to pass lurkers the opportunity of trashing the image of Iraqi resistance boiling it down to mere terrorist acts to justify the U.S.-led aggression.
 
In his news releases to Ikhwan online, Akef asserted the need for maintaining resist..

The Muslim Brotherhood’s MP, Muhssen Rady, proposed a bill on the amendment of the Judiciary Power Law to the Parliament Chairman. Provisions of the draft law made by the Judges’ Union in 1991 are attached. 
 
The Brotherhood’s bill suggests provisions that grantee the full independence of Judiciary from the executive branch and release the High Judiciary Council’s grab over th..