Tag Archives: EGYPT

Cairo court sentences 75 Egyptians to death over the Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque sit-in demonstration against Sisi’s military coup

Today marks 52 years since Syed Qutb, the great Egyptian Muslim thinker, was hanged by the regime of Jamal Abdel Nasser. He preferred death and torture to renouncing what he had declared. It is to him that the powerful and profound statement is attributed: “The finger that testifies that there is no God but Allāh refuses to testify to other than Him.”

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the military coup d’état against Egypt’s only democratically-elected president in modern times, Dr Mohamed Morsi.

The Ramadan of those most in need; a lesson of strength and resilience.

Innā lillāhi wa innā ʿilayhi rājiʿūn. Indeed, to Allāh we belong, and to Him we are returning. It was with great shock that many in the Arab World received the news of the passing of Dr. Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq; a ...

The Muslim Brotherhood is today commemorating 90 years since its founding

As the ex-CIA asset General Khalifa Haftar,[1] continues his war across Libya, human rights abuses in the eastern city of Derna have been largely ignored by the international media. Derna has been subject to a 21-month long siege by General ...

He was a seasoned graduate of the University of the Prophet Yūsuf (‘alayhi al-Salām), having spent decades in Egyptian prisons unjustly...

Why have Arab nations that historically betrayed Gaza now shown wild interest in administering the besieged strip?

Irish Muslim Ibrahim Halawa imprisoned in Egypt for four years has been acquitted of all charges and is likely to return back to his family by this weekend according to reports, inshāAllāh...