Muslim Brotherhood
Elections Monitor: Administrative justice rulings change electoral map
Egypt
November 25, 2010
Elections Monitor: Administrative justice rulings change electoral map
Three days before elections day, a series of administrative justice rulings are threatening to gerrymander the electoral map in several…
Brotherhood adopts novel campaign tactic to maintain traditional slogan
Egypt
November 24, 2010
Brotherhood adopts novel campaign tactic to maintain traditional slogan
Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary candidates on Wednesday distributed packs of medicines plastered with their traditional slogan "Islam is the Solution" while…
Election Monitor: Egypt fertile ground for Wafd gains, experts say
Egypt
November 24, 2010
Election Monitor: Egypt fertile ground for Wafd gains, experts say
As parliamentary elections approach, experts agree the Wafd Party is poised to win the largest number of seats within Egypt's…
Wednesday’s papers: Mubarak in the Gulf and Boutros-Ghali on the campaign trail
Egypt
November 24, 2010
Wednesday’s papers: Mubarak in the Gulf and Boutros-Ghali on the campaign trail
State-owned flagship daily Al-Ahram leads things off with a curious editorial decision on Wednesday. With parliamentary elections looming on Sunday…
Egypt’s Islamists will lose to liberal Wafdists in elections, say politicians
Egypt
November 23, 2010
Egypt’s Islamists will lose to liberal Wafdists in elections, say politicians
With polling stations are set to receive millions of voters on Sunday, Egyptian politicians and observers expect the new parliament…
Elections Monitor: NDP-Muslim Brotherhood accusations
Egypt
November 23, 2010
Elections Monitor: NDP-Muslim Brotherhood accusations
Several Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary candidates gathered their supporters and organized marches on Monday in an effort to incite security forces,…
The real election battle
Opinion
November 22, 2010
The real election battle
If a visitor to this country saw all the campaign banners that presently fill the streets and the election headlines…
Elections Monitor: ‘The Devil preaches!’
Egypt
November 22, 2010
Elections Monitor: ‘The Devil preaches!’
“We are not in need of American lessons in democracy or religious freedoms,” writes Ossama Saraya, editor-in-chief of state-run Al-Ahram…
Monday’s papers: Denial of Bush’s memoir claims, 55 new MB detainees, Al-Wafd electoral platform
Egypt
November 22, 2010
Monday’s papers: Denial of Bush’s memoir claims, 55 new MB detainees, Al-Wafd electoral platform
Today’s major state-owned newspapers share identical reports on Egyptian presidential spokesman Suleiman Awad’s response to allegations that President Hosni Mubarak…
More than 1200 Muslim Brotherhood members arrested, group says
Egypt
November 21, 2010
More than 1200 Muslim Brotherhood members arrested, group says
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamist opposition group, on Sunday said security authorities have arrested 1206 of its members, including eight…