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Swiss expert: The western world went wrong when it boycotted Hamas governments

Swiss expert Gabriel Galis stated that the western world committed a mistake when it boycotted the two Palestinian governments formed after Hamas won elections, adding this aggravated the crises more in Palestine...

MP Khudari hails Euro parliament for not voting to raise relations with Israel

MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular committee against the siege, on Thursday hailed the European parliament for deciding to postpone the vote to raise the level of relations between the European Union and Israel because of the latter’s blockade on the Gaza Strip...

Haneyya invites Ihsanoglu to visit Gaza

Ismail Haneyya, the premier of the PA caretaker government, has briefed Ekmaluddin Ihsanoglu, the secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Conference, on developments in besieged Gaza Strip...

Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President

The Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations have joined efforts to conduct research, travel the region, and develop non-partisan policy recommendations for the President-Elect Barack Obama. You can purchase your own copy of “Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President” online, and executive summaries of all the chapters, along with two full chapters, are available as well...

A New Wave of Democracy

Larry Diamond of Stanford University has released a new paper with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), “The Spirit of Democracy: How to Make Democracies Work,” in which he predicts that large authoritarian countries are unlikely to turn into full-fledged democracies in the near future, but that any change will be due to deepening reforms in young, fragile democracies...

Phenomenon Of Sexual Harassment Needs Taking Stance, Says MB MP

Hisham Al Qadi (member of the parliamentary bloc of the Muslim Brotherhood) has filed an urgent request to Dr. Ahmed Nazif (Prime Minister) and Major General Habib el-Adli (Interior Minister), on the recurrence of the phenomenon of sexual harassment in the Egyptian street recently, and how it could threaten the security of citizens..

CCIM condemns the terror attacks

Coordination Committee of Indian Muslims, which consists of leading Muslim organizations like the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, Jamiat Ulama-e Hind, Jamaat-e Islami Hind, Jamiat Ahl-e Hadees, All India Milli Council etc, condemned the recent beastly terror attacks in Mumbai. While paying tribute to those killed in the attacks, the committee demanded a high-level transparent, unbiased and truthful enquiry into these attacks so that the real culprits might be brought to book soon..

Egypt Police Arrest 64 Muslim Brotherhood Members For Their Solidarity With Gaza

Egyptian state security apparatus arrested on Thursday 64 Muslim Brotherhood members from four Egyptian governments after the MB organized tens of events across the country showing solidarity with the Palestinian people, particularly those facing the deadly siege in Gaza...

Khudari: Ships will continue to sail to Gaza

MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular anti siege committee, on Wednesday stressed that the ships trying to reach Gaza would continue to attempt to break the siege that is increasing in ferocity...

Human Rights in the Arab Region in 2008

e transition period in Washington offers a useful moment for policymakers to take stock of a number of serious issues. In the Middle East, one area that demands attention and re-evaluation is the manner in which the U.S. approaches the question of human rights and democracy..

Hamas: we’ll hold meetings with factions to crystallize a position on the calm

The Hamas Movement reported that it would embark on holding consultations with Palestinian factions to crystallize a position on the extension of the truce with Israel and to assess the previous stage in light of the serious Israeli violations of the calm...

Bashour: There are efforts to send a Lebanese relief ship to Gaza

Maan Bashour, a noted Lebanese activist and the head of the preparatory committee for the right of return forum held days ago in Syria, revealed that there are contacts underway to send a Lebanese ship loaded with food and medical aid to the Gaza Strip, describing the siege on Gaza as the blockade of enemy and friend..

Don’t Forget Yemen

This past week the people of Yemen threatened to boycott parliamentary elections in April because “they believe the balloting next April will not be fair, mostly because a 9-member electoral body overseeing the vote is all-appointed by the country’s president and its members are closely linked to the ruling party. Socialist leader Yaseen Said No’man said the opposition has been holding demonstrations across Yemen to protest the government’s rejection of amendments to the country’s elec..

Grassroots Nation Building and US Foreign Policy

In today’s New York Times David Brooks highlights a major shift in Washington the Obama adminstration would do well to maintain: the move away from top-down militaristic attempts at democracy-building toward strengthening governmental legitimacy and efficacy from the bottom-up. “Some theoreticians may still talk about Platonic concepts like realism and neoconservatism, but the actual foreign policy doctrine of the future will be hammered out in a bottom-up process as the U.S. and its a..

Egypt’s Universities Continue Crackdown on MB Students

Egyptian security forces arrested six Muslim Brotherhood students at Faiyum University from their houses Sunday on charges of membership in an outlawed group...

Third Egyptian Aid Caravan Will Head to Gaza Saturday

Vice president of the Court of Cassation and head of the Popular Committee Against Gaza Siege Judge Mahmoud Al-Khudairi told Ikhwanweb the committee would launch a third aid caravan to Gaza next Saturday...

Muslim Brotherhood MPs to Spot-Check Police Stations in Cairo, Alexandria

Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc decided to execute the decision passed by the Human Rights Committee of the People’s Assembly granting MPs permanent license to monitor Police headquarters across the country after a suggestion by Muslim Brotherhood MP Hussein Ibrahim, MB MP and member of the Human Rights Committee in the PA Mahmoud Amer told Ikhwanweb. ..

Court Adjourns Ruling in Favor of Jailed Muslim Brotherhood Leaders

The Administrative Judiciary Court decided on Tuesday to postpone to January 13 the legal challenge filed by 18 Muslim Brotherhood leaders who received jail sentences by a military tribunal last April after they were acquitted four times by civil courts...

Newspapers Protest Gag Order in Suzanne Tamim Murder Case

Abdullah Al Sennawi, chief editor of the Nasserite weekly Al-Arabi, confirmed in exclusive statements to Ikhwanweb that the editors of the independent newspapers decided after their meeting on Monday at the headquarters of Al Wafd Party to file a lawsuit challenging an earlier court decision to impose a gag order in the trial of Hisham Talaat Mostafa, a business tycoon and a member of the powerful Policies Committee, in the murder case of pop singer Suzanne Tamim...

Can Hillary be an Honest Broker in the Middle East?

Eli Lake at the New Republic writes on the prospect of conflict between likely appointees Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security Advisor Jim Jones over issues in the Middle East. “While General Jones wants to take steps now to empower Abbas and his Fatah party to take over a Palestinian state, Clinton is asking if even the Palestinian moderates are ready to govern.”..