Vice
| May 13, 2013
Activists are alarmed by increasing assaults on women in Cairo, including on demonstrators at Tahrir Square. Women are speaking out and men have banded together as bodyguards in orange and green vests to protect female protesters from assaults, wh...
Ahram Online
| Apr 19, 2013
WARNING: Graphic Content. Clashes broke out on Friday afternoon following an Islamist protest against the judiciary at Cairo's High Court. The demonstration was called for by the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and other Islamist fo...
Mosaic
| Apr 18, 2013
As Egypt's government continues to pursue a $4.8 billion loan from the IMF, Egyptian people's concerns about the elimination of subsidies on bread and fuel continue to rise. Professor Nezar Al Sayyad, Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
Democracy Now!
| Apr 11, 2013
New revelations have emerged in Egypt that members of the Army participated in the forced disappearance, torture and killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Despite the allegations, Preside...
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Mosaic
| Apr 11, 2013
Bassem Youssef, the Egyptian political satirist and host of popular television show al-Bernameg (modeled on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show), is best known for poking fun at Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. But the joke wa...
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Mosaic
| Apr 9, 2013
Egyptians are protesting the government's plans to implement a new subsidy system that will subsidize bread rather than the flour used to make it. Many bakers worry they won't be paid enough, while Egypt's poor fear the subsidized bread, which for...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 30, 2013
He's been labelled Egypt's Jon Stewart for taking on Egypt's political and social upheaval with humor and a bevy of comic impersonations. Now popular television presenter Bassem Youssef is in hot water, accused by the government of insulting Islam...
Euronews
| Mar 23, 2013
Running battles and burning cars - these are becoming the common images of a post revolution Egypt. The latest round of violence erupted as several thousand opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed with supporters of the Islamist group. Riot po...
Associated Press
| Mar 17, 2013
Dozens of people were busted after violent clashes erupted between Egypt's security forces and protesters outside the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters in Cairo. In the town of Samanod some 50 miles north, meanwhile, two suspected motorized ricksh...
Euronews
| Mar 8, 2013
Police officers in several Egyptian cities have been on strike, protesting that they are not adequately equipped to deal with the unrest that's been sweeping the country. They gathered outside police stations, demanding more officers and arms to ...
— Feb 21, 2012 at 06:25 pm
...Egyptian parliament session after the revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. UPI/Ahmed G...
— Apr 18, 2012 at 11:54 am
...fancies as “the Arab Spring,” the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood called for jihad against the United States. more ›› No one can tell yo...
— May 16, 2012 at 10:03 am
— Sep 7, 2012 at 11:23 pm
...News Agency reported. Essam al-Erian, head of the FJP, said in an interview with the Saudi-based al-Arabiya news channel that the Muslim Brother...
— Oct 25, 2012 at 07:38 am
The Society of the Muslim Brothers is the Arab world's most influential and one of the largest Islamic movements, and is the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states. Founded in Egypt in 1928 as a Pan-Islamic, religious, political, and social movement by the Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna, by the end of World War II the Muslim Brotherhood had an estimated two million members. Its ideas had gained supporters throughout the Arab world and influenced other Islamist groups with its "model of political activism combined with Islamic charity work".
The Brotherhood's stated goal is to instill the Qur'an and Sunnah as the "sole reference point for ...ordering the life of the Muslim family, individual, community ... and state." The organization seeks to make Muslim countries become Islamic caliphates and to isolate women and non-Muslims from public life. The movement is also known for engaging in political violence. They were responsible for creating Hamas, a U.S. designated terrorist organization, who grew to infamy for its suicide bombings of Israelis during the first and second intifada. Muslim brotherhood members are suspected to have assasinated political opponents like Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha.
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