Archive for 'Political Islam'
Understanding Political Islam
A two-day specialist course organised by British Muslim Initiative and supported by Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, Conflicts Forum, Demos, Forward Thinking and The Cordoba Foundation.
Venue: Olympia Conference Centre
Date: 12-13 July 2008
As recognized or unrecognized oppositions, parties in coalition governments or fully in power, or active players in civil society, Islamists have risen to prominence […]
Posted: June 16th, 2008 under CF CONFERENCE, Political Islam.
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Arrest of Khaled Hamza Salam
By Ibrahim El Houdaiby, Conflicts Forum, March 4, 2008
I woke up on Wednesday February 20th on the news of the arrest of Khaled Hamza Salam, IkhwanWeb.com co-editor in chief. I was on a short visit to Egypt and had met Hamza on Tuesday night, where we went over several contentious issues including the ongoing military […]
Posted: March 4th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Democracy, Egypt, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam.
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Crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood
By Ibrahim El Houdaiby, Conflicts Forum, February 25, 2008
Those who believe that the ongoing crackdowns on the Muslim Brotherhood by the Egyptian regime will cause a major setback for the country’s largest and most powerful civil opposition group are definitely mistaken. Brotherhood members are an integral living part of the Egyptian society who can never […]
Posted: February 25th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Democracy, Egypt, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam.
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Language - a tool to transform different into dangerous
Alastair Crooke interviewed by Christian Porth, Daily Star, February 2, 2008
“If thought corrupts language,” the English author George Orwell wrote in his famous 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” “language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.” Alastair Crooke, […]
Posted: February 9th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Islamists, Political Islam.
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The Political Implications of the Hamas Electoral Victory from the Islamist Perspective
A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Azzam Tamimi, November, 2007
The Hamas election victory in January of 2006 sent shockwaves through the Arab world — and through Islamists with varying convictions. The debate among Islamists over whether Hamas should have participated in the elections has been intense. But Hamas’s willingness to maintain its principled non-acceptance of the […]
Posted: November 24th, 2007 under Hamas, MONOGRAPHS, Political Islam.
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Hamas Debates the Future - Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement Attempts to Reconcile Ideological Purity and Political Realism
A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Khalid Amayreh, November, 2007
Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas — won a surprising electoral victory in the January 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections. Almost immediately, Hamas leaders, movement activists, and Islamist academics began to debate the future course of the movement. Under what conditions would Hamas recognize Israel? What was its […]
Posted: November 13th, 2007 under Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, MONOGRAPHS, Political Islam.
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