The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the military junta that took power in Egypt after the January revolution, drew ire from the newly-elected parliament yesterday when it issued rules for upcoming presidential elections. The law did ...

The first anniversary of Egypt’s revolution elicited commentary on Egypt’s transition, not all of which was optimistic. In a joint piece for the Washington Institute for Near East Peace, Samuel Tadros argues that "there is no true democratic transition in Egypt," ...

Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and in cities across Egypt today to commemorate the first anniversary of the uprising which overthrew former President Hosni Mubarak. Activists began to fill Tahrir as early as ...

Egypt's lower house of parliament, the People's Assembly, met for the first time today since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in February. The first session came just days after the official results of parliamentary elections were ...

  According to Lebanese activist Lokman Slim, in a "meeting two weeks ago, Nasrallah 'complained he no longer wanted the job'" as Hezbollah's head. Slim notes that the conflict in Syria, and Hezbollah's close association and defense of President ...

  The Muslim Brotherhood decided to support Egypt's interim cabinet remaining in power until after the presidential elections scheduled for June, according to a senior leader in the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party. In an interview with David Kirkpatrick ...

According to Magharebia, Morocco's National Human Rights Council (CNDH) has introduced "an action plan to integrate human rights principles into the kingdom's national policy." CNDH Secretary-General Mohamed Sebbar said, "The general goal of this plan, which includes several measures concerning various aspects ...

On Saturday, U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) met with members of the Muslim Brotherhood, ruling military leaders, and the prime minister in Egypt. The Brotherhood released a statement noting three top officials met with Kerry and U.S. Ambassador ...

As Egypt's new cabinet was sworn in, the SCAF announced that it will appoint a council to check the influence of religious extremists on the constitutional drafting process after declaring that the next parliament will not be ...

The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) said on Wednesday that they won a majority of seats in the run-off elections, with Salafis coming in second. One source told Reuters that the FJP secured 39 ...

On Tuesday, Algeria's national assembly voted to continue the ban on the main Islamist party, the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). The vote will maintain the two decade old ban, as parliamentarians debated proposals for a new electoral law. ...

In a speech to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Secretary of States Hillary Clinton called on Islamist parties that appeared to make significant inroads in Egypt's first round of elections last week to "embrace democratic norms ...

Al Jazeera English reported on Tuesday that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) will grant Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri extra powers through a constitutional amendment. Ganzouri stated that the SCAF "would issue a decree within hours to hand him ...

Abdul Moez Ibrahim, the head of the Egyptian supreme election committee, told a news conference on Friday that voter turnout for the first round of elections was 62 percent, and added "it is the highest voter turnout since ...

As'ad AbuKhalil, writing for Alakhbar English, argues that the success of Islamist political parties is "the dominant story," but the coverage is not mentioning that these parties "have been organized for decades while some leftists and liberals ...

As Egyptians flocked to the polls on Tuesday, the Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim Brotherhood's affiliate, claimed the lead in the first stage of parliamentary elections. State television reported that the peaceful polls had a high voter turnout, ...

Hundreds of Tunisian students clashed at a university over Islamists students' demands for segregated classes and the right for women to wear full-face veils. Witnesses stated that the demonstration at Manouba university near Tunis broke down into fighting ...

Morocco held its first parliamentary elections on Friday since a new constitution was approved by a referendum in July, which provided for a more empowered parliament. Moroccan Interior Minister Taib Cherkaoui said around 45 per cent of registered ...