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Spanish school expels girl for wearing hijab

Europe continues to be embroiled with the veil controversy. This time it was Spain that sparked outrage from Muslim and independent human rights activists after a 16-year-old girl was expelled from her school for violating the school’s dress code by wearing the hijab, which covers one’s hair...

Egypt sees inflation rise

Feki stressed the need to increase the allocations for subsidies in light of expected increases in prices, to protect the poor, “especially as the increase in inflation increases their proportion.”..

Egyptians call for meat boycott

Two Facebook groups have been established and The Egyptian Chamber of Tourist Establishments (ECTE) have called on all food outlets and companies to boycott red meat on April 26...

5th Annual Bil’in Conference on the Palestinian Popular Struggle

The 5th Bil’in Conference will be held next week, April 21-23, in the wake of a growing tide of popular resistance in the West Bank and Gaza...

Egypt’s civil movement under security force’s cruelty!

The historical presidential election aftermath in Iran, last year, which marked a nationwide protest against the theological regime of Islamist clerics was an inspiration to the young nonviolent activists all over the Middle East and the world...

Science is fiction in Egypt

Egypt has a lot of problems with clean water distribution, illnesses, and overcrowding. These problems are shared with a lot of the region’s countries...

Egypt says didn’t ask Kuwait to deport citizens over ElBaradei support

The Kuwaiti government last week arrested and deported a number of Egyptian citizens working in the Gulf country...

Egypt sees rise in gov’t health care insurance costs

“Life is hard for us, but we can’t complain right now,” he begins. “We are all quite healthy and looking to the future for better things.”..

Egypt: AUC students do well in international computer competitions

Computer science and engineering students at AUC are consistently top performers at international competitions for developing software and technological devices...

Israeli Demolition Campaign in Tree Towns Across the West Bank

In an aggravation of Israeli policy of home demolitions, a house and two shops were razed in the Central West Bank village of Hares this morning...

Egypt protesters finally get it together

Leading opposition leader Ayman Nour and Ihab ElKhouly, Chairman of al-Ghad party, pulled an unconscious protester from beneath the feet of state security during Tuesday’s protest, eyewitnesses said...

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood refuses to get involved with IslamOnline crisis

The Qatari government's decision to remove Sheikh Youssef el-Qaradawi from his position as head of the Al-Balagh Cultural Society, which runs the IslamOnline website, is demonstrative of the failures crippling the Arab world...

Retrial for Egypt business tycoon set for April 26

The retrial for Hisham Talaat Mustafa, the Egyptian business tycoon already found guilty for his involvement in the murder of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim and sentenced to death, will begin on April 26...

Egypt: Workers continue to struggle, face resistance

Last week, an international labor union oversight committee removed Egypt from a black list of nations who deal poorly with their workers. An optimistic move that leads many to see Egypt as moving forward, but ask many factory workers and they will tell of a worsening situation that has left unions on the outside and employees struggling to survive...

Egypt: More security than protesters highlights Kuwait Embassy demo

While there were calls on Twitter for Kuwait to “stop persecuting Egyptian opposition,” a demonstration was scheduled in front of the Kuwait Embassy in the Cairo neighborhood of Dokki...

Urgent need for parliament to debate protection of journalists bill

Reporters Without Borders urges the Iraqi parliament to approve a much-delayed bill for the protection of journalists after several media employees were injured in bombings and other attacks in recent weeks even if they were not necessarily the targets...

Egypt: Don’t Deport Darfur Refugees to Face Persecution

The Egyptian authorities should immediately cease deportation proceedings against two refugees from Darfur, Human Rights Watch said today...

Sudanese refugees at risk of forcible return

The Egyptian authorities apparently intend to forcibly return Sudanese refugees Mohamed Adam Abdallah and Ishaq Fadl Dafallah to Sudan on 12 April. If returned, they would be in grave danger of being tortured or otherwise ill-treated in Sudan...

Australia asylum suspension could harm world’s most vulnerable

Amnesty International has condemned the Australian Government’s suspension of the processing of new asylum claims by Afghan and Sri Lankan nationals, which is fundamentally inconsistent with Australia’s international obligations under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention...

EMHRN denounces the repression of Democracy Activists in Egypt

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) condemns the Egyptian security forces’ violent assaults against a large number of peaceful demonstrators in Cairo, Alexandria and various other areas on April 6. EMHRN emphasizes the need for an independent investigation on the detentions and the police’s use of excessive force against peaceful demonstrators...