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Archives: Muslim Brotherhood

Given Fundamentalist impact on Syria, Women’s Freedoms in Doubt

By Manal Ismael | ( Global Voices Online ) | - - In early September 2017, a piece of paper with a potent message targeted against women, held by a group of…

The top 4 Challenges facing the Arab World

By Tarek Osman | (Project Syndicate) | - - LONDON – Fifty years after the Six Days War, the Middle East remains a region in seemingly perpetual crisis. So it is no…

Saudi v. Qatar: Will Turkish intervention cause Escalation?

By James M. Dorsey | (Inter Press Service) | - - SINGAPORE (IPS) - Turkey’s parliament is this week fast tracking the dispatch of up to 3,000 troops to Qatar, home to…

Why We Need Political Islam

By Shlomo Ben-Ami | (Project Syndicate) | - - MADRID – US President Donald Trump has put on the back burner an executive order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a…

Aqsa Crisis: PM Netanyahu wants Israeli Forces to use Live Fire against Rock Throwing Demonstrators

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Thousands of demonstrators came out in Jordan on Friday to protest what appears to be a new Israeli assertion of authority over Muslim…

US Air Force Absent as Daesh/ ISIL advances on North Aleppo against Sunni Rebels

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - Daesh (ISIL, ISIS), the murderous terrorist organization that has taken over the eastern desert of Syria and the western desert of Iraq, along with…

Egypt: Executing Muslim Brotherhood leader Morsi for “Terrorism” will Fuel… Terrorism

By Ebrahim Deen | (Informed Comment) | -- ‘In contemporary Egypt, due process is often not granted, evidence is often not considered, and impartiality and independence are often not maintained.’ The…

Death Sentence for Morsi: Egypt’s Junta takes another step toward being N. Korea

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - That the only freely elected president Egypt has ever known has been sentenced to death is only to be expected from the current military…

Egypt: Sisi’s struggle with the Muslim Brotherhood and his Strikes on ISIL/ Daesh in Libya

By Henry Clements | (Informed Comment) - Egyptian president Abdel Fatah El-Sisi wants to rally the international community against terrorism in the Middle East. In a televised speech earlier this week he…

Egypt’s Cover-Up: Rabia Massacre One Year Later

By Sarah Leah Whitson Published in: Open Democracy “Forget about Morsy, forget about Rab`a,” my Egyptian neighbourhood grocer told me the other day, expressing the loyalty to the president, Abel Fattah al-Sisi,…

Second Libyan Revolution, this Time Against Political Islam, Extremist Militias

Second Libyan Upheaval, this Time Against Political Islam, Extremist Militias

(By Juan Cole) In Benghazi on Monday morning, fighting resumed between the "Libyan National Army" forces of Col. Khalifa Hifter and fundamentalist extremists. The latter fired rockets at the Benina military airport…

GOP holds hearings but in the Real Benghazi a Retired Gen. is bombarding Extremists

GOP holds hearings but in the Real Benghazi a Retired Col. is bombarding Extremists

(By Juan Cole) As congressional Republicans prepare to have yet another round of investigations into the September 11, 2012 attacks on a US "consulate" in Benghazi, Libya, it is hard to see…

In Egypt, Industrial Scale Death Decrees

(By Amy Austin Holmes) A single judge in a single court in Egypt has sentenced more people to death this year than the total number of people who were executed last year…

Egyptian Judges shock world again, condemning 683 Muslim Brothers to Death

Egypt's judiciary accused of being arm of repression (via AFP) A wave of mass sentences in Egypt, including hundreds sentenced to death this week after a rushed mass trial, has sparked charges…

Will the US side with Saudi or Qatar in the Great Gulf Civil War?

(By Omar Ali) The Saudi strategy of offering military support to the US while exporting Muslim militancy and portraying itself as the protector of the two holiest sites in the Islamic world…

Cole @ C-Span: Egypt and the Birth of al-Qaeda (video lecture)

(By Juan Cole) My class lecture, "Egypt and the Birth of al-Qaeda," was filmed by C-Span in February and has been shown on television; it is now available on the web (click…

The Great Urban-Rural Struggle over the Constitution in Egypt

(By Juan Cole) The tale of two constitutions, 2012 and 2014, in Egypt has to be seen in my view as significantly an urban-rural struggle. Neither referendum had a big turnout, but…

How Egypt’s Revolution veered toward Authoritarian Crackdown

(By Mohammed Fadel) In response to a December 24 bombing in the town of Mansoura, the Egyptian government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. The decision, which came despite the fact…

“Terrorism” tag is tool of Political Repression in Egypt

(By Human Rights Watch) (New York) – The Egyptian government’s designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization appears to be aimed at expanding the crackdown on peaceful Brotherhood activities and…

The Iraqization of Egypt: Two Large Bombs Rock Security Bldg in Mansoura, kill 14, wound 130

(By Juan Cole) Two large explosions at the state security building in downtown Mansoura, Dahqaliya Province, killed at least 14 persons and wounded 130 on Monday, reducing some of the edifice to…