A brother and a scholar
Prominent Muslim Brotherhood member Kamal Helbawy talks about his research and ending the misconceptions that tie terrorism to Islam.
Read MoreProminent Muslim Brotherhood member Kamal Helbawy talks about his research and ending the misconceptions that tie terrorism to Islam.
Read MoreRather than propping up Hosni Mubarak, providing more legitimate access to power should be the way to guarantee security and stability in Egypt.
Read MoreIf we suspend scepticism and take up Barack Obama’s invitation to dream of change, what Middle East can the audacity of hope help to forge?
Read MoreRather than encouraging people to make moral choices, religious groups in Egypt are imposing their values by law.
Read MoreA secular society confines religion to the spiritual sphere where it belongs, and leaves worldly affairs to human resourcefulness.
Read MoreGoing home to Egypt, I cannot shake off the sense of being a stranger in my own increasingly conservative motherland.
Read MoreMany in the west fear the threat posed by political Islam. But there is a more ominous menace closer to home: Christian fundamentalism.
Read MoreSyrian author Heidar Heidar’s novel about Iraqi communist exiles in Algeria has provoked the ire of Islamists who have denounced A Banquet for Seaweed as “offensive to Islam”.
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