The Muslim Brotherhood must be incorporated within the political process, argues Amr Elchoubaki*. But this requires movement by both the organisation and the regime
Sometimes it appears that conflict between the government and the Muslim Brotherhood (...)
A real war on terror would be a campaign built on justice, peace and development and would target Washington's allies as much as its foes, writes Amr Elchoubaki*
Five years is not such a short time and the impact of Bush's war against terrorism in (...)
Hizbullah has emerged from the Lebanese conflict as the major moral force within the region, writes Amr Elchoubaki*
In a recent recording released by Al-Qaeda, Ayman El-Zawahri vowed solidarity with the Lebanese resistance. The world's second most (...)
How can the US justify talking to radical Islamists in Iraq while boycotting Hamas in Palestine, asks Amr Elchoubaki*
Not since the rise and fall of the Nasserism in the 1950s and 1960s has the Arab region been hit with a tremor such as that which (...)
Sinai-style terror, delinked from doctrine, is difficult to handle and necessitates addressing the social and political reasons of grievance, writes Amr Elchoubaki*
The face of terror is changing in this country. Call it neo-terrorism if you will, (...)
The dismal performance of Egypt's opposition parties calls attention to a crisis that affects the entire political system, writes Amr Elchoubaki*
This was the year of the demise of Egyptian parties. So little have they offered the nation in (...)
NDP attempts at reform will fall at the first hurdle until the party sheds the legacy of its past, writes Amr Elchoubaki*
For the second year running the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) talked a great deal about reform and did very little. (...)
Islamist political groups must be assimilated into any democratising process if it is to be worthy of the name, writes Amr Elchoubaki*
Political Islam provides one of the focal concerns in the debate on reform in the Arab world. Aggravating the (...)
A split in the Muslim Brotherhood is not to be expected yet, writes Amr Elchoubaki*
A mere 14 months separated the deaths of Muslim Brotherhood General Guide Ma'moun El-Hodeibi and his predecessor Mustafa Mashhour. Every departure of a Muslim (...)
French moves to ban the veil in schools is not an attack on Islam, but rather a crisis of secularism, writes Amr Elchoubaki*
Perhaps no other issue has stirred as much controversy both inside and outside France as the recent decision to ban the veil (...)
Though the Arab resistance must continue to challenge occupation, it would do well to reassess its tactics, writes Amr Elchoubaki*
The Americans will not be leaving Iraq tomorrow or anywhere in the foreseeable future. It is also clear that the (...)
The protests in Iran, writes Amr Elchoubaki from Tehran, are not the state of revolt the US depicts them as being, but evidence of something else altogether
The recent student demonstrations in Tehran, which were weakly echoed in other Iranian (...)