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The Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn) is an international Sunni Islamist group founded by Ḥasan al-Bannā in 1928. Although, originally the movement claimed to be against violence, it has been accused of many alleged terrorist attacks, and is banned in Egypt as well as...
Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2006
Ayman Muḥammad Rabīʿ al-Ẓawāhirī is a Muslim who claims that he is committed to bring the golden age of the caliphate back, and advocates a violent means of jihād to achieve his objectives. His own native country Egypt, along with many other countries, considers him a terrorist. During the 1990s,...
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2007
ʿAmru Mūsā; an Egyptian politician and diplomat who holds the position of Secretary-General of the Arab Leagueand plays a pivotal role in negotiations around most of the major disputes in the Arab world. Such negotations are in regards to the disputes between Morocco and Algeria over Western Sahara...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Lebanese Interior Minister: There is no Arabism without Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and ‘Packets storm’ has liberated the Arabs
Nihād Machnūk, Lebanese Interior Minister, has said that there is no Arabism without Saudi Arabia and Egypt. He also stated that the operation ‘Packets Storm’ has come to...
Date of source: Thursday, January 14, 2016
Georgetown University PhD candidate Matthew Anderson went in July 2015 with Arab-West Report/Center for Arab-West Understanding to Maghagha were we met with several local people, Christians and Muslims, about the expulsion of an extended Christian family from Kafr Darwish following allegations of...
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The following study aims to explain the process of racism by defining both the biological and social concept of race. The author subsequently builds on this to describe the question of racism of Somalis in Cairo, Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, March 21, 2015
The Muslim Brotherhood insists on Mursi’s return and refuses Saudi Arabia’s offer to arbitrate between them and the Egyptian regime
Amid an economic conference that was held in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood rejected Saudi Arabia’s offer to arbitrate between them and the Egyptian regime. The Saudi...
Date of source: Monday, April 6, 2015
Twitter celebrities rise up against demonstrations which curse Saudi Arabia
Activists on social media sites have created the hashtag “Against Abuse of King Salamān.” They accuse the Egyptian newspapers as an extension of the Muslim Brotherhood; however, Saudi writers say that the newspapers are a...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 11, 2013
The tenth day of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic Hijrī calendar is known as ‘Āshūrā’. This day, is a sacred day celebrated by both Sunnīs and Shī’ah Muslims alike albeit for different reasons. Despite sharing this day in common, it highlights differences and brings memories of unjustified...