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Jerusalem….When it is too late

One sees gloomy faces of residents who quickly return to their homes by sunset. One notices also a huge difference between East and West Jerusalem. Any one can notice this salient and outrageous contrast between a beautiful part of the city blessed with care and wealth. On the other hand, the other part is neglected and marginalized like isolated slums in outskirts of metropolitan cities. ..

Habib in Interview: Iran Has its Own Agenda…Where Is Arab Agenda?

This interview with Dr. Mohamed Habib the first deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood sheds light on the group’s targets in Egypt in the current time and satge specially regarding domestic and foreign political affairs. ..

Blogging and social networking dominate conference on Arab media

A ONE-day conference on new Arab media held in the Brunei Gallery of London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) last week gave the audience the opportunity of hearing from some of the leading bloggers in the Arab world in person. ..

Will Obama go beyond the superficial?

In his first interview with an Arab television network soon after his inauguration, US President Barack Obama confirmed his intention to "engage" right away with "all the major parties" involved in the Middle East...

Interview with Khaled Meshaal

In the name of God, the clement, the merciful, I would like to ask the first question. Is it possible that after the war against Gaza and our heroic resistance, Israel still does not understand that the peace process cannot be done without Hamas…?"..

Forum on the Muslim Brothers: Should they be repressed by the Egyptian government?

We will have 3 groups (please see below). The group representing the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian government will have 15 minutes each to present their case. Then we will take a 5 minutes (or longer) for the group representing the American government to deliberate. I will film you and it will be posted on the blog (of course, with your permission)...

FDL Book Salon Welcomes Juan Cole: Engaging the Muslim World

I’m honored to be part of this FDL Book Salon on Juan Cole’s Engaging the Muslim World. Professor Cole has long provided an invaluable reservoir of expert opinion on the Middle East, and I’m delighted to be able to participate in this discussion of his latest work. ..

War On Terror Within: The End of Jewish History

The issue I am going to discuss today is probably the most important thing I’ve ever had to say about Israeli brutality and contemporary Jewish identity. I assume that I could have shaped my thought into a wide-ranging book or an analytical academic text but instead, I will do the very opposite, I will make it as short and as simple as possible...

Second Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, President of the Government of Spain Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President Jorge Sampaio, High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations will open the Second Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations. Several Heads of State and over 50 Ministers will participate in the event. The President of the United States , Barack Obama, is expected to be present on the second day of the Forum...

Isolated Israel

Facing its worst isolation in two decades over the internationally unpopular Gaza war and the election of a right-wing government, Israel is working relentlessly to beautify its blemished image. ..

Israel arrests Hamas members

Israel has detained at least 10 senior Hamas members in the occupied West Bank, according to officials from the Palestinian group..

Engaging the Muslim World: Well what are we waiting for?

I, for one, welcome Cole’s book. It talks about engaging people and understanding them for who they are not who we believe them to be. There are plenty of people that feel Americans are not the principled people we think ourselves to be mostly because our government is implementing policy in parts of the world where they don’t care to do their homework therefore the implications for the people are highly destabilizing. See Afghanistan...

Anxiety And Engagement

I believe that the United States and its NATO allies are destined to have more and more to do with the Muslim world over the coming decades. Some estimates of world population growth suggest that it will level off about 2050 at 9 million or so. Nearly a third of humankind at that point may well be Muslim (the proportion is more like one-sixth to one-fifth today). ..

Obama starts well with Muslims but must do more

Perceptions are a critical piece of the foreign policy matrix. From the perception of the Islamic world, the Obama administration is ticking off many of the right boxes..

Gaza: Massacre in Slow Motion

More than a month after Israel’s assault on Gaza ended, life for Gaza’s 1.5 million Palestinians continues to be a daily struggle. Israel maintains a suffocating siege that blocks the flow of basic staples, plunging the vast majority of residents into abject poverty...

4,400 Workers Still on Strike at the Shebin El Kom Textile Company

Some 4,400 workers at the Indorama Shebin El Kom Textile Company - in the Nile Delta Governorate of El Mounufiya – are persisting in their ongoing strike, for the ninth consecutive day (as of Saturday, March 14). All production at the company is at a standstill (since Thursday, March 5) as these workers demand their annual bonus pay - amounting to 228 days of wages - which has been withheld by the Indian investors who own/manage this now-privatized company. The investors have claimed t..

Obama backs off on Israel, again

President Barack Obama’s controversial pick for a top intelligence post blasted the "Israel lobby" on his way out the door Tuesday, intensifying a debate on the role Israel’s allies played in the latest failed Obama appointment..

Bringing the ’untouchables’ in from the cold

There are moderate Islamist groups that are increasingly open to Europe; Europe should explore the possibilities..

Meet the Real Islam

In the final Republican presidential debate last year, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaking about America’s adversaries in the so-called "war on terror," told the audience: "This is about Shi’a and Sunni. This is about Hezbollah and Hamas and al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood...

Egypt must halt campaign against bloggers

The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to protest the relentless campaign of persecution against Internet journalists and bloggers by Egypt’s various security services. Regrettably, the routine harassment and detention of bloggers, according to CPJ research, is only one element of an overall decline in press freedom in Egypt in recent years. In 2007, CPJ concluded that Egypt was among the 10 worst backsliders in terms of press freedom worldwide,..