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Interview with Dr. Issam al-Iryan: Chief of the Muslim Brotherhood Political Department

This chapter features a transcript of an interview with Issam al-Iryan, chief of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political department in Egypt. Issam al-Iryan discusses the Muslim Brotherhood’s view of the US government and of US democracy and culture. ..

In Focus: Risks of excluding the Brotherhood

The military sentences issued against some members of the Muslim Brotherhood represent a turning point in the relationship between the group and Mubarak regime. This is not only because they are harsh, as they are the harshest rulings against the group since the trials that took place in the 1960s during the Nasser era, but also because they are not commensurate with the political weight of the group, which occupies 20 percent of the seats in parliament...

The Muslim Brotherhood: A Body without a Mind

This question still begs a clear answer. It has also disclosed the size of the mistakes the group is constantly committing and has undermined its popularity and the trust the people have placed in it. The group has refused to participate in the April 6 strike in which all other political forces have joined. And it has justified its position by saying that it was not invited to the strike and that it did not know the political orientation of the parties and forces that have called for..

Egypt: Local Elections…the End of the Democratic Spring

The local elections to be held on April 8 confirm the continuing authoritarian hegemony overpolitical life in Egypt, despite talk of new thinking and democratic transformation. The National Democratic Party (NDP) has insisted on monopolizing the electoral process by excluding other political forces’ candidates, whether those of the (outlawed) Muslim Brotherhood or of the legal opposition parties...

Suppressing the Muslim Brotherhood is Not a Solution

The Egyptian regime is mistaken if it thinks that it can exclude the Muslim Brotherhood from the political arena, not only because they are the only power with popular and organizational influence, but also because they represent an Egyptian cultural and intellectual state — that is, seeing religion as a means to reform and change...

In Focus: The MB and Municipal Elections: Losses without Gains

The Muslim Brotherhood group recently announced in a statement and on their official website, that it will field candidates in the April 8 municipal elections, stressing that their participation is a religious duty...

The path of centrist political Islam

For more than three decades, fundamentalist religious organisations across the Arab world – such as the Islamic Group in Egypt, the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria, and Al Qaeda – have monopolised global attention. Meanwhile, moderate currents faced – and continue to face – difficulty expressing themselves at the international level, even though they represent the mainstream essence of Islam. ..

In Focus: The Brotherhood Trial: Is it almost over?

The recent decision by the military court trying 40 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has triggered speculations as to the future of this case and the nature of its final verdict. ..

Muslim Brotherhood; An Ambiguous future

The Brotherhood favours form over substance, presumably out of a desire to maintain unity within its ranks. Those who advise unity at any cost argue that the Brotherhood has a responsibility towards its external "branches". Naïve as it is, this argument provides a pretext for Brotherhood conservatives to keep things the way they are. Several attempts for reform within the Muslim Brotherhood have been foiled and those who proposed change were cast as "unfaithful" to the Brotherhood do..

In Focus: The Autumn of Arab Islamists

Humble election results and the weakening intellectual and organizational structure of current Islamist movements beg the question...

Is “Brotherhood” with America Possible?*

“THERE IS NO CHANCE OF COMMUNICATING with any U.S. administration so long as the United States maintains its long-standing view of Islam as a real danger, a view that puts the United States in the same boat as the Zionist enemy...

The Brotherhood at a Crossroads

Ever since they opened their political party program to public debate, the Muslim Brotherhood has been in crisis...

The Islamist spring, is it over?

Political Islam seems to be running aground across the Arab world, writes Khalil El-Anani..

From Jordan to Morocco; Are the Arab Islamist Movements in Decline?

In his article .Is the Arab Islamists Spring Over,. writer Khalil Al.Anani correctly points out that what appears to be a recent decline in the influence of Islamist movements is not a sign of victory for the present political systems. ..