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Interviewers: Eline Kasanwidjojo, Quinta Smit Language of interview: Arabic (original interview), English (presented transcript) Interpreter: Hamdī ( last name unknown, friend of Mahmūd Fathī) Transcript: not mentioned Approval: Requested and no objection received   This is the second transcript of...
Interviewer: Eline Kasanwidjojo Language of interview: English (original interview), English (presented transcript) Transcript: Eline Kasanwidjojo Approval: requested and no objection received   The interview with Aḥmad Najīb Founder Council of Trustees of the Revolution in Egypt, evolves round the...
In an opinion article, Ṭalat Radwan, contributor to Civic Egypt online magazine, critiqued Dr. ‘Abd al-Wahāb Al-Misrī's writings. Radwan claims that contrary to what has been circulating in the Egyptian cultural sphere, that Al-Misrī was rumored to be a liberal or Marxist, he has demonstrated his...
Jamāl al-Bannā was born in 1920 in al-Mahmūdiyyah in al-Bihīrah governorate, Egypt. His elder brother was al-Imām Hasan al-Bannā, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Despite being the brother of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Bannā pursued quite different interests. al-Bannā...
A friend of mine asked me the other day what I think of this quote from the Economist of June 23:‘The best way to tame the Islamists, as Turkey’s experience shows, is to deny them the moral high ground to which repression elevates them, and condemn them instead to the responsibilities and...
Egyptian churches urged President Muhammad Mursī to respect court rulings, criticizing his recent decision to reinstate the dissolved parliament while Coptic activists slammed it as “aggression on the rule of law and victory of the interests of the president’s group at the expense of the homeland’...
The Muslim Brotherhood is a difficult subject to tackle. Some of this is the fault of others – there appears to be significant bias against them in many quarters. Some of this is their own fault – they are a closed organization accountable to no government oversight.  
[Editor-in-chief Cornelis Hulsman: we received this analysis from a friend of Arab-West Report. It is an interesting analysis but I do not fully agree and made my remarks in the text below.
Coptic legislator Ihāb ‘Ādil Ramzī of al-Hurrīyah Party in al-Minya severely criticized the Muslim Brotherhood’s recent announcement to field Khayrat al-Shātir as its candidate for the forthcoming presidential election, adding the group is only bringing back to life the dissolved National...
  A number of church figures expressed their trust in the unity of the Egyptian people, stating that they are not at all worried about the Islamic parties' sweeping victory in the parliamentary elections. What matters is what the member of parliament will offer for all Egyptians, stressing that the...

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