Islamist parties called on military Chief of Staff Sami Anan during a meeting on Saturday to end the state of emergency, apply the Treachery Law against former National Democratic Party (NDP) members, hand over power to a civilian government before (...)
Informed sources claim a delegation of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group, headed by Deputy General Guide Khairat al-Shater, met with the military council on Monday, hours before the group announced that it would boycott Friday's million-man (...)
Islamist parties continue to make various preparations for the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled to begin in November.
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party announced it would nominate 105 of the same candidates who had (...)
Egypt's Islamist groups are divided over participation in the demontsrations planned for 9 September by a number of political groups to protest the prosecution of civilians before military courts.
While the Salafi Front has said it will not (...)
The Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood group, is likely to run for less than 50 percent of parliamentary seats in the upcoming elections, according to Wahid Abdel Meguid, elections coordinator for the Democratic (...)
Aboud al-Zomor, one of the plotters of Sadat's assassination in 1981, called on the Muslim Brotherhood group to rescind its position of non-participation in the next presidential elections and field one of its qualified cadres in them. Al-Zomor was (...)
Young brotherhood group members to revolt and dissolve the bureau and the group's Shura Council is strange and contradicts the group's ethics, the Muslim Brotherhood's Guidance Bureau said.
Young group members had called for an internal “revolution” (...)
A group of roughly 2000 young members of the Muslim Brotherhood say they are planning to stage a “revolt” against the group's authoritative Guidance Bureau and Shura Council on 17 March to demand the dissolution of the two governing bodies.
Young (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood is internally divided over whether women and Copts should be allowed to run for president. The debate emerged as a number of MB leaders are in the process of revising the political party platform before presenting it the (...)
“Political parties have the right to nominate women or Copts for the presidency,” said Muslim Brotherhood member Mohsen Radi. “But we find it unsuitable. Perhaps they should be nominated only for ministerial positions.”
Radi also said the group (...)
The coalition of the 25 January Revolution has called for a million-man celebration on Friday in Cairo's Tahrir Square and other prominent public spaces throughout the capital to commemorate those who lost their lives in the 25 January uprising and (...)
In a statement on Monday, Egypt's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said it would establish itself as a political party once the Constitution has been amended to allow it to do so.
The group asserted its confidence that Egypt's (...)
Provincial representatives of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition group were recently summoned by police and threatened with arrest if they went through with plans to stage demonstrations calling for economic, social and political reform, MB (...)
An internal opposition faction within the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest Islamist opposition group, will announce its online presence next week in the form of Ikhwan Islahyoon--the “Reformist Brotherhood.”
The faction also plans to convene by (...)
The International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood said it will take legal action against the Egyptian regime before the International Court of Justice in order to acquit the group of money laundering charges.
The Egyptian State Security Court (...)
The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) posted an article on its official website yesterday asserting that its struggle with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement was "not over" despite the conclusion of recently-held parliamentary (...)
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement confirmed this week that it would be working with the National Assembly for Change (NAC) led by independent reformer Mohamed ElBaradei.
The statement came in response to remarks made by ElBaradei (...)
The internal opposition front within Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is expected to propose amendments to the group's official bylaws at a conference slated for late this month.
The front will then submit the proposed changes to the MB's (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood internal opposition front said the group's candidates still had a chance to withdraw from the parliamentary elections, calling on both winning and losing candidates to step down in light of widespread electoral (...)
Parliamentary elections on Sunday will be “decisive for Egypt,” said General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood opposition movement Mohamed Badie.
Badie went on to say that free and fair elections were "essential to the legitimacy of parliament, which, (...)
The opposition front within Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) movement has called on the group to pull out of Sunday's parliamentary elections following the recent arrest in Alexandria of thousands of MB members.
Since the MB had already suffered (...)
The international wing of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) movement has urged its Egyptian counterparts to withdraw from next weeks' parliamentary elections due to an ongoing crackdown on the group's parliamentary candidates by Egyptian security (...)
A dissident Muslim Brotherhood faction intends to take to the streets in civilian disobedience in a move to press for political change, sources said.
The unnamed front says it is actively lobbying Brotherhood members, political powers, and citizens. (...)
Local experts on Islamic movements express doubt that al-Qaeda would carry out threats to attack churches in Egypt as it has allegedly done in Iraq, especially given that the terror group has no organizational infrastructure in Egypt.
“The Al-Qaeda (...)
Muslim Brotherhood MP Haitham Abu Khalil, leader of the Brotherhood's opposition front and election boycott advocate, has urged members of the group's guidance bureau to abolish the slogan "Islam is the Solution" from the campaign trail.
Abu Khalil (...)