Seyfeddine Ahmed
The Arabic word ikhwan means brothers. Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimoon (Muslim Brotherhood) was the first Islamic movement to emerge after the khilafah was abolished by Mustafa Kemal in Turkey. The Ikhwan have paid an enormous price for their struggle and in the process, they have had to make painful compromises. One wished they hadn’t. If they had remained faithful to their ideals, there is a good chance they would be much further ahead. Islamic movements everywhere should learn from their mistakes.
Seyfeddine Ahmed
San Francisco, CA, US
After a quarter of a century in power, president Husni Mubarak of Egypt appears not to have learnt how to avoid making damaging decisions on...
By massacring unarmed civilians that were merely holding a sit-in, the military has brought Egypt to the brink of civil war. While the milit...
The military regime has failed to crush the Ikhwan but Egypt faces a grim future.
In October the Egyptian authorities released several hundred political detainees, out of the many thousands that it is estimated to hold. Th...
