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Comment: Egypt needs a democratic legacy

Hosni Mubarak said last week that Egypt “does not need a national hero”. The ageing Egyptian president, who is recovering in Germany from a gall bladder operation, was answering a question about Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel prize winner and recently retired head of the International Atomic Energy Agency..

‘Islamists must adopt pragmatic approach’

Islamist movements throughout the world are passing through a decisive phase and their survival depends on the pragmatic approach they adopt and how the regimes in their countries accept their presence...

Israeli occupation seeks to include 150 Palestinian sites on its Jewish heritage

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Threat to Social Media in Middle East

Internet Service Provider (ISP) plays an important role in blocking/filtering websites. In its role as a licensed ISP and in response to customer requests, ISPs have a clear policy that aims to prevent damage to the values of the community from harmful material on websites...

EGYPT: Mubarak aims to cool off enthusiasm for Mohamed ElBaradei

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's first public reaction to the political reaction that surrounded Mohamed ElBaradei's return to Egypt seems to have been a very spontaneous attempt to remind everyone that dramatic political changes in the country are likely to take place in the near future...

When Islamists Go into Politics

Islamist parties and movements in Arab countries have gained great political importance by making the strategic choice to participate in the legal political process and to acknowledge the legitimacy of the existing constitutional framework...

Blogging Truth to Power in the Middle East

I had the honor today of moderating a panel on elections and new media co-sponsored by Google and Freedom House. What made it particularly interesting was the participation of a group of eleven bloggers from the Middle East and North Africa..

Opposition crackdown in Egypt heats up before polls

Egypt's largest opposition movement, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, is once again facing a crackdown by authorities. Some 150 members are under arrest, according to the group, and more arrests are expected in the run-up to elections for both houses of parliament later this year...

What Islam is all about.

Dalia Mogahed talks to Gihan Shahine about bridging the gap between the US and the Muslim world...

Forum Summary: Erdogan, Clinton, Kerry, and Ibrahim Address the 2010 U.S.-Islamic World Forum

With a video message from U.S. President Barack Obama and an address from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Saban Center at Brookings and the Government of Qatar hosted the Seventh Annual U.S. Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar from February 13 to 15...

A defense of Rashad Hussain

President Obama's newly-announced envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Rashad Hussain, "is at the center of a controversy." He is not only beset by criticism for a quote he has admitted to making about the prosecution of Sami al-Arian in 2004 (at the age of 24) but also by insinuations and accusations about his participation in, as Cal Thomas calls them, "events connected with the Muslim Brotherhood...

Islam’s European Reformation?

Ramadan wrote What I Believe as “a work of clarification.” In it, he emphasizes that his goal is to fashion a distinctively “Western” expression of Islam that does not require Muslims to choose between their national identities and their religious one...

Mubarak’s Zionized Regime

After the savage Israeli occupation of the western half of Palestine and severing the Gaza Strip off its Palestinian mother land in 1948 Egypt sponsored the Gaza Strip and its Palestinian residents and refugees and treated them as its own equal citizens..

Egypt arrests 3 top leaders and other senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood opposition

The No. 2 leader of Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood and two other top figures have been arrested by police Monday in a dawn sweep targeting members of the nation's most powerful opposition group across the country...

Arrests of Muslim Brotherhood leaders included Dr. Ezzat, Dr. Essam El-Erian, Dr. Al-Barr

Egypt's state security services launched a wide crackdown in the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday February 2, 2010 just before dawn...

Features: Promoting Democracy to Stop Terror, Revisted

U.s. democracy promotion in the Middle East has suffered a series of crippling defeats. Despite occasionally paying lip service to the idea, few politicians on either the left or right appear committed to supporting democratic reform as a central component of American policy in the region...

UAE: NYU’s labor rights provisions break new ground

New York University’s announcement today that it will require all companies to respect the rights of laborers building its campus in the United Arab Emirates is a significant step toward protecting migrant workers there, Human Rights Watch said. All other businesses and institutions with projects in the country, including the Louvre and Guggenheim, should follow suit and incorporate similar contractual safeguards, Human Rights Watch said...

Islamic law in favour of Coptic Christian rights in Egypt

Over the past decades, numerous polls have demonstrated that the majority of Egyptians want shari'a-or Islamic principles-applied to parts of their country's legal system...

USF Student questions Obama on human rights in the Middle East

President Obama answered questions from the audience during his speech today at University of Tampa...

Australian soldier sentenced to hang in Afghanistan

A former Australian soldier has been sentenced to death in Afghanistan for shooting dead an Afghan colleague then trying to blame the killling on the Taliban, Times Online reported...