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ElBaradei the nucleus

The return of Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has increased speculation that he will challenge Mubarak in the 2011 presidential elections...

Why does the western media ignore Egyptian dissent?

Anyone who rejects the premise that Egypt is as unstable as Iran is urged to take a look at the spine-tingling photos and videos of demonstrations against Mubarak in Mahalla back in April 2008, including the iconic image of hundreds of angry Egyptians bearing down with their feet on a flattened poster of the president...

Exclusive: Hamas leader interview

Yet, for too many people, Hamas as an organisation remains opaque. What they know about it is derived from a hostile media; it has no face. Most would probably think its leader is some disturbed Osama Bin Laden figure. In fact, al-Qaeda's supporters in Gaza are so hostile to Hamas that they have declared war on it...

Copts & Brothers

Two years ago, on 14 October 2005, a major religious riot between Christians and Muslims broke out in the backstreets of Alexandria. An angry mob spilled out of a mosque during Ramadan and began attacking the large Coptic church of Mar Girgis - St George - on the other side of the road...

Man of straw

So it was Jack Straw who counselled against an early election? Martin Bright reports on a politician who, after the event, always seems to be in the right..

Silencing the editors

Ibrahim Eissa, editor of Egyptian opposition newspaper al-Dustour, was due in court on 1 October for "defaming" President Hosni Mubarak. Eissa regularly talked of Mubarak’s failing health in his columns, and even ran such stories on al-Dustour’s front page. ..

Shooting The Messenger

Human Rights Watch’s Elijah Zarwan relates the story of Abd al-Monim Mahmud - an Egyptian journalist and blogger arrested last week. ..