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Egypt: study shows youth have bad attitudes, negative impression of women

A survey Conducted recently on Egyptian children and youth by the Center for Information and Decision Support of the Egyptian Cabinet in cooperation with the International Population Council, found that one-quarter of the country’s population live in slums...

Egypt: MB leaders face further investigations

Cairo: Egypt’s opposition Muslim Brotherhood group continues to face obstacles in having top officials released from police custody, the MB said in a statement published on Sunday...

Istanbul: a city of dilemmas

Misconceptions of Turkey make it seem like a backward society where women cannot walk around uncovered, mixing between sexes is forbidden and alcohol is unavailable. This cannot be further from the truth...

Americans favor Egypt best

Egypt has topped the list of Arab countries that Americans expressed positive views towards, according to a survey of the views of Americans toward the world’s most publicized countries...

French mayor: Halal restaurant is discrimination

A French council has filed a complaint against a fast food chain that uses only halal meat in its burgers...

Egyptian human rights leaders meet Obama

American President Barack Obama last Thursday met with a delegation of Egyptian participants at the “Summit on Human Rights” in the White House...

Thousands mark five years of protest in Bil’in

Following the victory forcing Israel to begin rerouting the path of the Wall, and in face of the Army’s unprecedented attempts to crack down on the popular struggle, the people of Bil’in will celebrate five years of protest tomorrow...

Egypt: Calls for solidarity with Egyptian anti-torture blogger Wael Abbas

Egyptian activists and bloggers are gearing up for today’s showdown between the government and leading blogger Wael Abbas, who was sentenced last fall to 6 months in prison...

Iran ’shows contempt’ for human rights by rejecting UN recommendations

Amnesty International today criticized Iran for rejecting important recommendations by the United Nations to improve human rights in the country...

M15 accused of complicity in torture

According to Binyam’s lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, senior government officials are legally obliged to ensure that staff is trained properly in accordance with the United nations’ convention against torture...

Egypt: female judges not allowed on top court

Human rights groups and activists have lashed out against the government’s ruling to bar women from the Council of State’s association – the body that advises the government. According to the official MENA news agency, the association voted with an overwhelming majority against appointing women as judges on the council...

Egypt: Top blogger found not guilty, no jail time

One of Egypt’s top bloggers and anti-torture activist, Wael Abbas, has been found not guilty by a Cairo court on Thursday. The ruling means the blogger will avoid what could have been 6 months in prison...

Headlines from the region

A Moroccan man who spread al-Qaeda propaganda from his Quebec apartment and dreamed of blowing himself up in an overseas terrorist attack was sentenced to life in prison yesterday, matching the stiffest penalty yet under Canada’s anti-terrorism law...

Egypt reports one Bird flu death

The World Health Organization (WHO) this week confirmed two cases of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, in the country’s newest outbreak of the virus. One of those cases resulted in the death of an Egyptian woman...

Bil’in: 1,000 demonstrators dismantled the wall

During the demonstration two demonstrators were lightly hurt. One was struck with a tear-gas projectile in the leg and another was shot in the stomach by a rubber-coated bullet...

El-Baradei: Egypt’s dream or illusion

To applaud El-Baradei’s “provided intention,” the Independent Campaign to Support El-Baradei for 2011 Elections, decided to collect attorneys from people to authorize El-Baradei to change the constitution; although he did not show any will or intention to change any thing...

Poll shows Obama making in roads in Arab world

The U.S Administration has seen a significant rise in its popularity during the first year of the administration of President Barack Obama in Egypt and other Arab countries, after it had reached its lowest levels during the time of former President George W. Bush...

Egypt releases student after two years in jail, torture

The Egyptian blog Mahalla to Cairo reported on Sunday that a student who had been held for more than two years by Egyptian security forces had been set free on Friday. Mohammed Elwi had been arrested on Jun9 19, 2007, in his home in Mahalla al-Kobra in the Nile Delta region and had been taken to the State Security Investigation headquarters in Cairo’s Nasr City area...

The anti-Muslim Nile Hotel

If a Muslim cannot be treated with equality in a “Muslim” country, then how can we expect equality anywhere else? Of course, “Muslim” entails much more that one single culture, country or government, but it is extremely disappointing to find that in Egypt, of all places, some people and companies find it hard to reconcile Muslims and modernity...

Egypt fights underage marriage and school dropouts

Khattab explained that the most important reasons for customary marriage is to avoid the conditions of the legal age for marriages, which in Egypt is 18-years-old, and the financial status of the families of these girls...