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Egypt After Mubarak

The 80-year-old Mubarak has long depended on Egyptians’ passivity - not to mention the implicit green light from Washington to persecute and incarcerate with impunity..

Israel vs. the United Nations

A UN investigation of Israel’s attacks on Gaza may put the United States in the middle of a tense dispute between the international body and Israel. But now is the time for the US to regain its position on international human rights, says Barbara Crossette...

American Muslims and the FBI

Muslim-American communities have been angered at the FBI’s attempts at provocation and intimidation. But it is important to stay in dialogue with law enforcement despite this unfairness..

It was Never about Democracy

The people of the Middle East could learn more about modern democracy from the anti-war camp, and not from former president Bush and his ’coalition of the willing’, the very anti-Christ of democracy..

Obama’s Arab and Muslim Strategy

Obama has chosen to focus on four interconnected subjects: the deadlocked Arab-Israeli conflict; the fraught relationship with Iran; the tangle of problems in Afghanistan and Pakistan; and the urgent need to restore respect for America’s system of justice..

Debating the Extreme Right

For years, the extreme right-wing parties in Europe have played on fear, the need for security, and the rejection of the other. For our democracies, the slippage is a doubly dangerous one. We are no longer in the realm of ideas, of the freedom to think and to choose..

Can Turkey Help Bridge East and West?

Turkey’s proximity to Europe in the West and Russia, Iran, Iraq, and Syria in the East, makes it an important bridge for peace and understanding..

29 Muslim Brothers arrested in Egypt

Egyptian security forces on Tuesday arrested 29 members of the banned-but-tolerated Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s main opposition group, in a widespread operation, a police official said..

Stop and Smell the Roses in Pakistan

For years Pakistan has been home to much that ails the Muslim world - coups, dictatorship, militancy, and corruption. Let’s recognize it now as home to judges and lawyers who won their stare-down with the dictator, says Mona Eltahawy. ..

Jailed Nur urges Obama to back Arab democracy

CAIRO - Jailed Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nur called on US presidential hopeful Barack Obama to support human rights in the Arab world in a letter published on Wednesday. ..

Egyptian film takes on Christian-Muslim relations

CAIRO - A new film seeking to smash Egypt’s sectarian taboos takes a light approach to Muslim-Christian relations but critics say it fails to lay the blame for religious tensions where it belongs -- with the state..

Underbelly of Egypt’s Neoliberal Agenda

It was business as usual for Orascom, a gigantic Egyptian conglomerate with major interests in everything from Cairene highway construction to Red Sea luxury resorts to cell phones in Iraq...

Generation Facebook

Generation Facebook is the godchild of two important developments that took off over the past three years in Egypt - an increasingly bold blogging movement and street activism. And on May 4, the young ‘Political Party of the Internet’ will lead a general strike for political reform - a birthday gift to eighty year-old autocrat Hosni Mubarak, says Mona Eltahawy. ..

Democracy – Egyptian Style

Hopes for political reform and increased participation in Egypt faded with the events that marked the 2008 local council elections, which have cast a gloomy shadow over the future of democracy, rights and freedoms ...

Bush’s Double-Talk Fits Mubarak’s Egypt

Egypt has lost its luster as America’s Middle East wrangler for peace and business deals. Now it’s a touristy backwater - and a perfect photo-op for Bush to praise his brand of ’civil society’, says Mona Eltahawy. ..

To Die With The Philistines?

For an occupier, Gaza has always been problematic. The Israeli army has left it three times already, and each time the joy was great. It is no accident that both intifadas started in Gaza, notes Uri Avnery. ..

On Romney, Mormonism and Islam

While the urgency of ‘responding’ to Islamic fundamentalism has been consistently highlighted, very little has been said about Christian, Jewish or other fundamentalisms. The relationship between Christian fundamentalism and the Iraq war, or Jewish fundamentalism and the Israeli occupation of Palestine are rarely examined, notes Ramzy Baroud...

How Al Jazeera Helped Create a Middle East Mainstream Media

A decade ago, there were only government-controlled media outlets for television and radio in the Arab world. Now, there are hundreds of viewpoints streaming into - and on talk shows, out of - Arab homes from a variety of television and radio stations. The Arabic news channel, Al Jazeera, revolutionized media in the Middle East, says Ned Lamont. ..

Bush’s Global War on Terror in Egypt

Negar Azimi offers insight on the real repercussions of George Bush’s perpetual war-as-foreign policy in Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt...