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Mubarak’s Intervention Ends Two Year Ordeal for Egyptian Doctors

The case of two Egyptian doctors working in Saudia Arabia who were facing severe punishment and a sentence of 1500 lashes, which has generated controversy and debate about the mistreatment and violations against Egyptian workers rights in the kingdom, came to an end after President Hosni Mubarak’s meeting with the Saudi King Abdullah in Riyadh last week..

150 Activists Strike in Front of the Cairo World Trade Center

More than 1,400 human rights activists from various civil society organizations in France, Italy and Belgium organized a protest in front of the World Trade Center in Cairo on Monday afternoon...

Egypt Reports 115 Swine Flu Deaths

Cairo: Three new deaths were reported as a result of the virus known as H1N1 on Monday raising the number of swine flu deaths to 115 in Egypt. A statement by the Ministry of Health said that the 113thcase is a 55 year-old man from Suez, the 114th is a 37 year-old woman from Fayoum and the 115th case is a 41 year-old woman from the Red Sea Governorate...

Gaza Freedom March Madness: Part One

While its official day one was the 28th of December, Code Pink’s Gaza Freedom March began in Cairo to commemorate Israel’s Gaza offensive, Operation Cast Lead, and to call attention to the blockade with two meetings and several events on the 27th...

1 million Egyptians infected with Hepatitis C

Dr. Ahmed Medhat Nasr, chief of the Egyptian Society of Hepatitis and Viral Liver Diseases, stressed that the number of Egyptians infected with liver diseases reached about 14 million Egyptians, with the rate of infection in some villages reaching 40%-50% of the total adults over the age of 40. Such statistics indicate,..

Blog of the week: Practice what you preach

As the saying goes: “practice what you preach for” and we do not wish that our authoritarian and racist government or our police state could in any day feel ashamed of its practices against its own Coptic citizens, because it lacks any sense and doesn’t have any feelings, and it exceeds the deeds that were once prohibited by its system, and commits even worse crimes than the crimes it has once criticized and attacked!..

Report: Joint American-Palestinian torture of prisoners

The Guardian newspaper accused the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Palestinian Security officers of torturing members of Hamas in the West Bank...

Egypt Swine flu deaths rise to 86

The Egyptian health ministry reported on Sunday a further two new deaths as a result of the H1N1 virus, or Swine flu, bringing the official total of dead in the country from the virus to 86...

Interview with British MP George Galloway from Viva Palestina convoy

Bikya Masr sat down with British Member of Parliament George Galloway as he traverses Europe, leading the third Viva Palestina convoy from the UK to Gaza in order to deliver much needed aid to the impoverished Palestinian territory...

Algerian publishers to boycott Cairo book fair

Maybe the war between Algeria and Egypt is not quite finished. The Cairo International Book Fair, to be held this January, has already experienced the fallout of the recent football row that saw Egyptians and Algerians attack one another in the street...

Egypt’s Central Bank Reveals Latest Financial Numbers

Cairo: The Central Bank revealed that the financial sector’s total deficit amounted to 37.2 billion pounds (LE) in the period from last July to September...

Egyptian Government Releases New Public Opinion Poll

Cairo: A report issued by the Information and Decision Support Center of the Egyptian Cabinet (a government think tank) showed that 53% of Israelis oppose the removal of all Israeli settlements from Palestinian land even if it leads to the failure of peace efforts between the two sides and only 41% favor removing all settlements from the Palestinian territories until they reach an agreement on a lasting peace between the two conflicting parties...

Report Calls on Washington to Support Sanctions Against Iran

A report issued by an American think tank close to the Israeli lobby in the United States called on encouraging the Arab states, particularly Egypt and Saudi Arabia, to actively participate in efforts by Washington to impose stronger sanctions on Iran for failing to respond to the demands of the international community over its nuclear program...

Report: Internet is a tool for repression and resistance in Arab world

On Sunday the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, ANHRI, expressed its deep concern about the escalation of the suppression of internet users by Arab states...

Egypt’s free e-book publishing

Amidst the growing publishing scene in Egypt, numerous writers, old and new, are facing problems with their publishers..

Uncloaking art in Egypt

What people see, hear, and read matters. It shapes what individuals think and how they act. Consequently, LGBT rights activists in Egypt and the Middle East are particularly sensitive to images and representations of sexuality propagated in the public sphere...

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood and Women

A recent spat of press reports detailing Egypt’s powerful opposition Muslim Brotherhood group’s row over the role of women has left the Islamic group under pressure from the country’s liberal left and acitivists..

Egypt’s Internet presence increasing

CAIRO: Less than ten years ago, the Egyptian government established the ministry of technology and has been showing its teeth in new and innovative projects that are pushing the country into the Internet age...

Steve York talks “Bringing down the Dictator”

Steve York is the director of the documentary “Bringing Down a Dictator”, which focuses on the fall of Solbodan Milosevic, beginning with his stepping up of violence in Kosovo in 1998 and ending with his defeat in 2000 largely by the efforts of non-violent student group Otpor! (resistance in Serbian)...

Headlines from the region

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $162 million loan to bolster a Moroccan program aimed at widening access to financial services, the bank said on Friday...