Political grandstanding and posturing aside, the heated disputes show a sophisticated debate on the role of religion, individual rights, and power sharing among the branches of government.

CAIRO — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood pinned its hopes Friday on weekend elections to salvage its waning political fortunes, responding to a court ...

Now, just as the second round of the presidential race is about to begin, the SCAF has made its second move. And a bold one it is.

CAIRO — Egypt's newly elected parliament could be dissolved, the presidential election may have to be abandoned and the country's new constituti...

The emerging democratic model that Egyptians will produce will most likely become a model for an Arab world longing for an end to autocratic rule that has left Arabs lagging behind the rest of the world.

Logical analysis spells out democratic elections in Syria, not too far from now. Syrians are certain that once the violence stops, Syria will march toward a real democracy, just like Tunisia, Libya, Yemen and Egypt.

The goal would be to temper the Islamicization of society and to ensure a moderate, balanced set of laws that does not ignore Islam but provides spaces for true democratic norms and protections for free speech and minorities.

Tahrir Square, epicenter of the earthquake that ousted Egypt's western-backed dictator, Hosni Mubarak, is quiet -- for the moment.

CAIRO — Egypt's military rulers said Wednesday the next parliament will not be representative enough to independently oversee the drafting of a ...

Regardless if the regime stays or not, political Islam is on the rise, they claim, and the Islamists will eventually overtake the Syrian parliament in democratic elections. A closer look, however, might prove otherwise.

CAIRO — Islamists appear to have taken a strong majority of seats in the first round of Egypt's first parliamentary vote since Hosni Mubarak's o...

The future of the Arab World, whether seculars like it or not, is going to be in the hands of Islamic parties-- at least -- for the foreseeable future. This trend, just like Arab nationalism before it, will not last forever.

CAIRO — They waited in long lines for hours to vote, despite a new wave of unrest, fears about a sharply divided society and uncertainty over th...

CAIRO -- For months, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has focused single-mindedly on this moment – parliamentary elections beginning Monday that the f...

(Reuters) - The United States will resume limited contacts with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confirmed on Thursd...

The Egyptian right wing forces should work toward proving the compatibility of Islam and democracy and the concept of citizenship' rights in order to foster a positive image inside and outside Egypt.

The governments of the Arab Gulf states have been skeptical of the Arab Spring. For many political observers this skepticism stemmed from the fact tha...

Israel and the United States are unlikely to benefit from Egypt's liberation. The Pharaohs of the modern Middle East, ironically, may have been Israel's best hope for a true and lasting peace.

Do we, as supposedly liberty-loving Americans, really support people's revolutions? Or do we impose our own idea of revolution on others?

The signs are all there that this is the Arab equivalent of the fall of the Berlin Wall. There may be uncertain days ahead, but we are undoubtedly watching a new awakening in Cairo.

During the last few "anger days" in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has focused on unifying motives -- like human rights and democracy -- while ignoring its potentially divisive ideological stances, namely Islamizing the society.

By now it has become increasingly clear that the future of Egypt's stability, political reforms and progress rest almost entirely in the hand of its military.