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 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 (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
The total number of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) candidates for upcoming mid-term Shura Council elections has reached 13, after the Supreme Electoral Council announced final lists, not including candidates from Alexandria and Sharqiya.
Essam el-Erian, (...)
Muslim Brotherhood candidates have continued to campaign under the banner "Islam is the Solution," despite warnings by the committee supervising the elections against using religious or sectarian slogans.
Mahmoud Seif, the Muslim Brotherhood (...)
Mohamed Badie, the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, is refusing to comment on the extension of the Emergency Law approved by the parliament on Tuesday. The Emergency Law, which has been in force for almost 30 years, has regularly been used (...)
All Muslim Brotherhood candidates for mid-term Shura Council elections, scheduled for June, have successfully submitted their parliamentary papers, bringing the total number of Brotherhood-backed candidates to 14, reported Mohamed Morsy, a member of (...)
Egypt's Administrative Court has overturned an Interior Ministry decree banning Muslim Brotherhood (MB) general guide Mohamed Badie from traveling.
The ministry had banned Badie from going to hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, in (...)
Mohamed Badie, recently-elected leader of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement, plans to convene a meeting of the group's authoritative Guidance Bureau on Wednesday to discuss ways of cooperating with the leftist Tagammu opposition (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood may amend its bylaws in the near future, a process requiring the cooperation of the Brotherhood's different administrative bodies. The Brotherhood will change its bylaws in the coming weeks, said Helmi el-Gazzar, a member of (...)
Leaders of the international wing of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement urged the group's new general guide Mohamed Badie--only hours after his election to the post--to work on improving the MB's historically rocky relationship with the (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood held a press conference at its parliamentary office in Manial yesterday after the announcement of Mohamed Badie Abdel Meguid Sami as its new Supreme Guide.
The press conference was attended by a large number of Brotherhood (...)
Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Deputy General Guide Mohamed Habib, who apparently lost in the last elections of the group's Guidance Bureau, threatened with resigning from the bureau and the Shura Council.
In a statement he delivered from his Assiut (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood Guidance Bureau, the group's highest governing body, said yesterday that the announcement of a new general guide has been postponed until after consultation with the Brotherhood's Shura councils abroad. The announcement is (...)
Newly elected members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement's authoritative Guidance Bureau swore fealty to the group's General Guide, Mahdi Akef, at a meeting Tuesday.
According to new bureau member Ossama Nasr Eddin, the meeting was (...)
Muslim Brotherhood (MB) General Guide Mahdi Akef has announced his intention to retire from his post once his current term expires at the end of December. "I want to give the opportunity for new blood to run through the veins of the group," he told (...)