In a paper entitled Salafis and Sufis in Egypt, which was released by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Jonathon Brown reviews Egypt's latest election and the gains made by a number of Islamist parties- particularly the Muslim Brotherhood ...

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. ...

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 ...

Sherif Tarek writes at AhramOnline that Egypt's first round of voting in parliamentary elections on Monday took place with few violations. Despite the violence and upheaval that raged in Tahrir for the week preceding the elections, polling stations ...

POMED Senior Research Associate Daphne McCurdy analyzes the political landscape in Morocco through the lens of last week's parliamentary elections. McCurdy, in an article for Foreign Policy, contends that "the current path of reform initiated by the monarchy is ...

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 ...

Egypt's supreme administrative court has ruled that former members of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) will be permitted to run in upcoming parliamentary elections. After weeks of speculation on the status of the NDP, the party of ...

NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil stated that Libya's former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi will get a "fair trial" when he is extradited from Tunisia. "First of all we will ensure a secure place for him, then we will guarantee a fair trial, ...

Speaking at a National Democratic Institute dinner honoring activists for democracy and human rights, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed foreign policy in the wake of the Arab Spring. Clinton suggested that "the greatest single source of instability in today’s ...

Supporters of the Islamist party Ennahda gathered outside of the party's headquarters in Tunis to celebrate what they are calling a victory in Tunisia's first elections. The crowd chanted "The people are Muslim", "We will not surrender", and "No to atheism". ...

Sunday marked Tunisia's first democratic elections, nine months after President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was ousted, ending decades of authoritarian rule. Representing 80 political parties, over 11,000 candidates are running in the elections, with over several thousand running ...

Tunisians prepare for upcoming elections as campaigning closes on Friday, two days before their first democratic elections. Nine months after President  Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted, the once banned Islamist party, Ennahda, is poised to "dominate," the upcoming ...