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Israeli rabbi describes Islam as “ugly”

Israel’s former top Rabbi, Shas party spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, harshly criticized Islam as a religion and described it as an “ugly” faith during a speech he delivered on Saturday night for the occasion of Hanukah...

Egypt Swine flu deaths rise to 59

Egypt’s health ministry reported on Monday three more deaths from the H1N1 virus, or Swine flu, bringing the death toll in the country to 59...

Headlines from the region

On Monday, Mr. Kamel Morjane, the Minister of Defense, inaugurated the works of the 12th Military Medicine Congress in Gammarth north of Tunis...

Egypt: 1.2 million suffer depression

Said Abdel-Azim, a Professor of Psychiatry at Cairo University, revealed that the number of people living with depression in Egypt has reached 1.2 million persons from the 140 million people who suffer from the disease worldwide, pointing out that the proportion of depressed Egyptian people increases in the countryside more so than in urban areas...

Egypt Swine flu deaths at 64

The Egyptian ministry of health on Wednesday reported a further three deaths as a result of the H1N1 virus, or Swine flu, bring the official total of dead in the country of the flu virus to 64...

A Swiss minaret ban echoes in Belgium, but why?

A Flemish municipality, named Beringen, applied for installing speakers on the minarets of their Fatih mosque, a Turkish-Ottoman styled mosque and one of the biggest of Belgium...

Headlines from the region

Saudi Arabia was the biggest buyer of U.S. weapons during a four-year span with $11.2 billion in deals, followed by the United Arab Emirates with $10 billion, the U.S. Congressional Research Service said in a new report...

Tunisian student jailed over interviews

Global Voices, the international rights group blog, reported that Tunisian student Mohamed Soudani, 24, disappeared on October 22, 2009, in Tunisia, after giving interviews to Radio Monte Carlo International and Radio France International..

Amnesty says Kurds trial in Syria a farce

The trial of five members of the Kurdish minority in Syria began again on Tuesday amidst much international rights groups’ frustration. London-based Amnesty International called on Syria’s Supreme State Security Court to be abolished in light of what the group called a “parody of justice.”..

Britain issues war crime arrest warrant for Israeli politician, then retracts

A British court issued an arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni, Israel’s former foreign minister on Saturday...

Cartoons and racism

As girls growing up with Disney-promises of our very own Prince Charmings, it is understandably hard for us to accept it when someone who resembles Shrek tends to be the type of reality that we are faced with...

Belarusian Cartoons at Cairo Human Rights Film Fest

Pavel Yahoravich Marozau is a Belarusian activist that has been involved in the politics and diaspora community for the last 5 years...

Freedom of Religion versus Content of Religion: Canada Joins Debate

In the past few years, issues surrounding the niqab have escalated...

Fervor and Film: 2nd Annual Human Rights Film Fest

The 2009 Cairo Human Rights Film Festival commences next week with screenings from December 20 through the 23...

Wife of Egyptian Sinai activist speaks out

The wife of detained Sinai activist Musaad Abu Fagr, Shaimaa, spoke out on Wednesday in a posting on Amnesty International’s website, saying that since her husband’s arrest in February, 2008, each day “feels like 10 years.”..

Nile Basin Initiative celebrates 10 years with stalemate

The Nile Basin Initiative looks to a third meeting of ministers this year to end an ongoing dispute with Cairo over water sharing, but as they celebrate a decade of the initiative, prospects of resolving the infighting are doubtful...

Genetically Modified food: yes or no?

The field is pristine with rows of plants line the paths as Gamal Mahmoud Sayyid rummages through the dirt. He lifts of pile of brown soil in his hand..

World wants more cooperative governments

As the European Union begins to implement a new treaty aimed at assisting member nations to work together, and as American President Barack Obama is to receive a Nobel Prize awarded for his efforts in international cooperation, a WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of peoples in 21 nations across the globe has discovered that public opinion in 14 of the nations surveyed think their governments should be more ready to cooperate with others to achieve mutual gains...