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An Interior Ministry source on March 30 quashed reports that officers of the now-defunct State Security Department were involved in raiding the house of the Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad Badī' earlier this week. “Such behavior glaringly runs against the strategy of the incumbent Interior...
'Abd al-Mun'im Abū al-Futūh, a leading Islamist, on March 29, 2011, quit the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most well-organized opposition group a few days after he insinuated at a possible bid to run for presidency.
Clerics and employees of State-Islamic religious institutions are demanding an end to what they say is rampant corruption by senior officials who manage religious endowments. Islamic scholars and employees of the Ministry of Awqaf [Endowments], who have protested every day in Cairo, demand an end...
One of late President Anwar al-Sadāt's assassins, 'Abūd al-Zumur, has just been released after serving thirty years in jail, and he has given several interviews. Al-Zumur does not deny that any Muslim will meet a tragic end like Sadāt's if he/she digresses from the 'right path of Islam'....
A proposed national dialogue in Egypt, due to commence very soon, has rekindled post-revolution hopes that sectarianism, a legacy of the divide-and-rule policy of Mubārak's regime, will no longer exist in Egypt. The proposed dialogue has been announced by Deputy Prime Minister Yaḥyā al-Jamāl, who...
Police in the Upper Egyptian Governorate of Qena have launched a large scale manhunt for eight Muslim extremists, who are allegedly accused of cutting the ear of a Copt and burning his house to the ground, security sources said on 25 March 2011. The victim, whose name was not revealed for legal...
A group of Cairo based lawyers accused Deputy Prime Minister Yaḥyā al-Jamāl of having insulted Islam in a TV talk show on March 14. They charge al-Jamāl with committing a civil crime and aim to evoke the blasphemy law against him, which allows for a maximum penalty of three years imprisonment.  
Egypt's right groups, legal experts and revolutionaries on 24 March 2011 balked at the government's approval of a draft law to criminalize protests.
The majority of Egyptian voters said yes to the constitution amendments put forth in a landmark referendum earlier this week. The following mission of choosing a parliament, which is expected to play a genuine role in steering the country, will be very difficult. It needs thoroughness on the part...
Muhammad al-Biltājī, a Muslim Brotherhood leader, made clear that he wants secular parties to get organized in order to establish a balanced and truly competitive environment in the upcoming parliamentary elections. Pointing to the war which erupted in Algeria in 1991, when elections that seemed...

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