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Egypt: Mubarak giveth, Mubarak taketh away

Censorship seem to work best when it’s not complete. Certainly, that’s exactly how Hosni Mubarak has kept power since 1981, and how his son Gamal intends to keep it...

THINK TANK ROUND-UP: ELECTION DAY EDITION.

Sure, you’re voting, but someone has to do the thinking! And thus, the latest on foreign political movements, African grain markets, Hispanic migration and democratic foreign policy...

IN FOCUS: Why Opposition Coalitions fail in Egypt ?

Perhaps the only time an opposition coalition succeeded was in the 1919 Revolution, when the entire political movement spectra united in a revolution against the monarchy and British occupation. This coalition succeeded unexpectedly. One of its fruits was the establishment of the liberal and authority-balanced 1923 Constitution, which would remain an important milestone in modern Egyptian history...

Cyberspace conference blasts Mubarak government

As President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling party is holding its annual convention to lay the blueprint of future policies, young activists took to cyberspace, launching a parallel conference to condemn and satirize the nation’s government. ..

Purchasing voters’ votes in America…and neglecting electronic voting in some states

Violations in public elections at the international level seem to be identical. This is clear in some events watched by Maat in the American presidential elections, so peoples and governors in different places of world may agree about it. Although the American administration announced many times in front of the whole world that it is the teacher of democracy, but it still suffer some political illnesses...

Regular propaganda for elections …And the black boxes of ballots

In a field visit to the headquarters of that absentee voting Vervks a city in Virginia State, the governmental center which oversees elections. We noted that "the absentee voting is very organized manner, and there is no interference of any security or the presence of security forces to hinder the electoral process, and the Center allows for the police to vote absentee with their uniforms, there are paper or electronically voting and civilian officers supervise the elections not Judg..

At Israel’s beck and call

Under the manifestly false rubric of “restoring law and order,” hundreds of American-trained Palestinian troops have been rounding up Islamic political activists and suspected Hamas sympathizers in the Hebron region...

EGYPT: Dissidents in jail and exile

One critic is pardoned, another is left in prison, a third is in exile writing missives and giving speeches that chafe Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The forgiven critic is Ibrahim Issa, an independent newspaper editor and relentless government detractor who was sentenced to two years in jail for printing stories in 2007 that suggested Mubarak was ill and near death. In announcing the pardoning of Issa earlier this month, the 80-year-old Egyptian president said he wanted to “affirm..

US Invades Syria: Kills 8 Civilians

A US official has confirmed that Special Forces carried out a raid inside Syrian territory on Sunday, targeting fighters staging attacks in Iraq...

Harassment = Jail Time!

Egyptian women have something to celebrate: yesterday the first man in Egyptian history was sentenced to jail for sexual harassment. And not just any sentence: three years in jail with hard labor in addition to an LE 5,001 fine (approximately $1,000). An unexpected, but very welcome sentence. 27-year-old filmmaker Noha Rushdie Saleh was groped last June by 28-year-old van driver Sharif Gomaa as he drove alongside her, who grabbed her breasts so forcefully she fell...

IFJ Condemns Israeli Settlers’ Attack on Palestinian Journalists

The International Federation of Journalists today condemned recent attacks and harassment by Israeli settlers and soldiers on Palestinian journalists covering the clashes between Israeli settlers and Palestinian olive pickers near the West Bank city of Hebron...

Interview With Hisham Melhem of Al Arabiya

QUESTION: Madame Secretary, let’s take a panoramic look at the region, the Middle East. The Bush Administration came with some high wishes, hopes: preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power; spreading democracy in the Middle East; a peaceful Iraq, a democratic Iraq; and after Annapolis, a commitment to have peace between the Israelis and the Arabs. And are you disappointed because some of these objectives were not met – I mean,..

Radical DVD "Obsession" raises questions

The hour long video never mentions a political candidate, but critics say it doesn’t have to, "As Muslim’s we do not believe there is something called radical Islam," says Ahmed Noor who heads the Islamic Center of Hampton Roads. Noor continued, "In Islamic theology war is never holy, and Islam is always against terrorism...Clarion is racist...what this will do is scare people from Muslims and will be divisive for us in our society."..

Egyptian activist to meet new US president in December

Egyptian Human Rights activist and long-term democracy advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim said he would meet the new US president on December 6, with a delegation that represents several continents..

Syria’s Choice

Seven years after 9/11, Washington policymakers remain fundamentally confused about the nature of Islamist extremism, the ideas behind it and the states that manipulate it. In few places is this problem more obvious than in the U.S. relationship with the secular Assad regime in Syria..

The “new” realism…?

Are we entering a period of “new” realism in foreign policy - one that is defined by favoring allies, but cooperating with all in the pursuance of America’s interests? Consider an excerpt from this provocative..

A Profile in Courage

Last week, I attended a small gathering of DC based bloggers for a discussion with Egyptian activist and blogger Nora Younis, sponsored by the Project for Middle East Diplomacy. Nora was there to discuss the efforts of activists in Egypt to reform the government in the face of very sharp pressures, and to explain how new media (blogs, text messaging, Facebook etc.) are aiding in their efforts..

Report On The Drastic Consequences of Gaza Siege

As the Gaza Strip enters its fifth month of "calm" with the Israelis, 80 percent of the population lives below the line of poverty. Palestinian Legislative Council member and Chairman of the Popular Committee Against the Siege(PCAS), Jamal N. El Khoudary says, "Now more than ever international institutions must take responsibility to hold the Israeli government accountable for its crimes against the Palestinian population." The Committee’s Statistics ..

Crisis may make 1929 look a ’walk in the park’

As the credit paralysis stretches through its fifth month, a chorus of economists has begun to warn that the world’s central banks are fighting the wrong war, and perhaps risk a policy error of epochal proportions...

Necessary Risks

Shadi argues that the America has to start building relationships with Middle Eastern publics, not - as we do now - the dictators that rule them. Democracy promotion is still very valid (and it’s unfortunate that the term has left such a bitter taste after the folly of Iraq) as it provides disaffected mainstream elements of society with a vent for their frustrations. ..