Sources close to the Muslim Brotherhood said the group's Guidance Bureau is conducting intensive investigations into its young members who support Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh, a group member who independently announced plans to run in upcoming (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood's representative in Minya, Ali Omran, says the group reiterated its rejection of the newly appointed governor of Minya during a meeting with Security Director Mamdouh Maqlad.
Maqlad met with group leaders to ask their opinion (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood said it would participate in this Friday's demonstration to be held in Tahrir Square, and suggested calling it the 'Friday of Purging'.
Demonstrators would demand the trial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and remnants of his (...)
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” (...)
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 (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is currently studying the possibility of establishing a satellite television station and a number of newspapers and magazines, according to leading MB member Essam al-Arian.
“Freedom of access to information is key to (...)
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 (...)
At a seminar organized by the Egyptian Press Syndicate's freedoms committee on Wednesday, political figures called on Egypt's various political movements to stand up against anticipated vote fraud in upcoming presidential elections slated for (...)
Head of Egypt's High Elections Commission (HEC) Al-Sayed Abdel Aziz has said definitively that there would be "no monitoring" of Sunday's parliamentary elections, stressing that the role of civil society and human rights organizations would be (...)
Security services on Sunday arrested 58 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement in three different governorates.
The men were charged with campaigning for the group's parliamentary candidates before the official start date for (...)
Security authorities have arrested six Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Cairo, Giza, Ismailia, Alexandria, and Port Said in the latest detention campaign before the upcoming parliamentary elections slated for November.
The Islamist group's lawyer (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood described the first week of the new school year as chaotic, saying that the disarray reflects the lack of capacity to manage public affairs in Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif's government and the widespread corruption in the (...)
Al-Sayed al-Badawi, head of the Wafd opposition party, said on a popular talk show on Monday that he would not run in upcoming parliamentary or presidential elections, stressing that his primary objective was to return the party "to its former (...)
Ahmed al-Banna, son of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) founder Hassan al-Banna, has requested permission from the Egyptian Radio and Television Authority to broadcast a televised series he is currently producing on the life of his father.
The series, (...)
The airing of a TV series showing the life of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna has fueled a surge in the group's book sales, according to Secretary-General of the Egyptian Publishers Federation Assem Shalaby.
“The group's bookstores sold (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition group has criticized recent statements by Safwat al-Sherif, secretary-general of the ruling National Democratic Party, saying they suggested an intention on the part of the ruling party to fix upcoming (...)
Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Shura Council member Mohamed Gamal Heshmat has registered the group's "objection" to President Hosni Mubarak or his son Gamal running in next year's presidential elections.
Heshmat criticized recent remarks by National (...)
Egyptian scriptwriter Wahid Hamed has filed a complaint with the attorney-general in which he accused Ahmed Seif al-Islam, son of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) founder Hassan al-Banna, of calling him an "infidel" in recent statements to a popular weekly (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement has decided against joining a quadripartite coalition including the Wafd, Tagammu, Nasserite and Gabha secular opposition parties, say leading MB members.
"We haven't requested to join," said MB (...)
Qatari authorities have decided to suspend the efforts of Youssef el-Qaradawi, head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, to persuade Qatari authorities to host Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the spiritual leader of al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya, said (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement has posted a statement on its website calling on all political forces to resist attempts to bequeath power to Gamal Mubarak, the 47-year-old son of President Hosni Mubarak.
"It will be done through (...)
Thirty Egyptian opposition figures agreed on Tuesday to make efforts towards mobilizing the masses in support of political change while vowing to avoid contact with the government.
The agreement was reached at a meeting hosted by the Muslim (...)
Members of the National Association for Change (NAC) are inclined to participate in the People's Assembly election scheduled for October, said Saad el-Husseiny, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood Guidance Bureau.
El-Husseiny added that a final (...)
On Thursday, the Muslim Brotherhood launched a campaign on their website to collect electronic signatures supporting their “Seven Demands for Reform”, enshrined in the charter of the National Front for Change (NFC).
The NFC is closely affiliated to (...)
Hassan Nafaa, general coordinator for the National Association for Change (NAC), has announced that the association is witnessing a new start in the lead up to the parliamentary elections in November and the presidential elections next year. His (...)