Articles tagged with: Muslim Brotherhood
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Tuesday, 21 May, 2013
In an interview last month, Egyptian politician Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh displayed the poise and good humor of a man who had the foresight to step off a bus before it rolled into a ditch. The former Muslim Brotherhood member spoke confidently about newly democratic Egypt, which he said would succeed so long as it remained true to its ecumenical, secular traditions.
"Religion should change society indirectly through inspiration, not directly through politics," he said from his office in subu...
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Sunday, 19 May, 2013
Actor Waleed Hammad dressed up as a woman and walked Egypt’s streets for an investigative television report into what it feels like to be sexually harassed. The program aired earlier this month, and perhaps best exemplifies one of the major achievements of the January 25 revolution: the heightened awareness of the endemic sexual harassment of women on Egypt’s streets. Hammad’s video footage of his secret assignments, as well as the widespread coverage his story has received, would have...
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Sunday, 12 May, 2013
Whoever became Egypt's first Arab Spring president would have faced almost insurmountable challenges in realizing a stable and successful transition. Egypt's uprising emerged from ...
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Monday, 29 Apr, 2013
It was clear from day one that President Mohamed Mursi and his government would face a daunting task at the helm of the Egyptian state. Hosni Mubarak’s civil order was mostly...
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Monday, 29 Apr, 2013
BEIRUT, Asharq Al-Awsat—After being banned in Syria for more than thirty years, Muslim Brotherhood leaders have decided to officially return to the embattled country and open...
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Tuesday, 23 Apr, 2013
Out of all the places to meet Zuheir Salem, the number two man of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (SMB), a David Brent-style office in Alperton, north London, is probably the least e...
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Friday, 29 Mar, 2013
The Atlantic magazine’s recent profile of Jordan’s King Abdullah has embarrassed the royal court and unleashed a wave of criticism against the monarchy. Despite the embarra...
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Thursday, 21 Mar, 2013
Bottled water shortages, daily street battles and citizen militias: this is part of the reality in which Egyptians must conduct their daily affairs, two short years after a swe...
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Tuesday, 19 Mar, 2013
ISLAMABAD/CAIRO, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi paid the first official visit of an Egyptian leader to Pakistan in four decades on Monday, before moving on...
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Tuesday, 19 Mar, 2013
Walid Saffour is sitting in a light, minimalist office overlooking Hyde Park. A representative of the Syrian National Coalition of the Revolutionary Opposition, he seems like a cro...
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