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POMED: This Week’s Events

Monday, December 1, 2008 10:00am NAF: Public Diplomacy 2.0 Tuesday, December 2, 2008 11:00am AEI: Iran’s Nuclear ..

The Authoritarian Mindset

The LA Times has an interesting profile of prominent Egyptian poet Iman Bakry. Her writing of late has skewered the Mubarak regime, as well as critiqued and lamented “an Egypt plagued by self-doubt, repression, corruption and a dangerous divide between rich and poor.”..

Kuwaiti charitable society dispatches aid consignment to Gaza

The Kuwaiti social reform society on Monday initiated the second phase of its campaign "Save Gaza" and announced in a press conference that it would send a relief shipment to the Strip via sea route..

Muslim Brotherhood MPs Condemn Secret U.S. Visit to Egypt Borders

Muslim Brotherhood MP Dr. Hazem Farooq strongly condemned “a visit by high profile U.S. delegation” to the Egyptian-Palestinian borders and the Rafah crossing border amid complete secrecy and accompanied by Egyptian top security officials...

European campaign appeals to Libyan ship to insist on reaching Gaza

The European campaign to lift the siege on Gaza has condemned the Israeli obstruction of the Libyan ship and preventing it from reaching the Gaza Strip to unload its shipment of relief material...

Israeli gunboats intercept Libyan vessel, force it to return

GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli naval gunboats on Monday intercepted a Libyan boat that was loaded with food and medicine to the besieged Gaza Strip and forced it to return to the Egyptian Arish coastal waters...

Hamas welcomes release of prisoners, warns of trading their cause

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement on Sunday welcomed the liberation of any Palestinian prisoner from Israeli jails, warning at the same time of trading the issue of prisoners with the security coordination and the liquidation of resistance...

Sawasya Center Condemns U.S. Violation of Civil Rights of Arab American Scientist

Sawasya Center for Human Rights and Countering Discrimination condemned the U.S. government’s violations of the right of an Egyptian-born scientist who was fired from his job allegedly because he criticized the war on Iraq. ..

Parliament Decision Allows MPs to Monitor Violations in Police Headquarters

The Egyptian Parliament’s Human Rights Committee decided Saturday to grant MPs permanent license to monitor Police headquarters across the country after a suggestion by Muslim Brotherhood MP Hussein Ibrahim, the MP told Ikhwanweb...

Morsi Slams Escalation Against Muslim Brotherhood Across Egypt

Member of Muslim Brotherhood Executive Bureau Dr. Mohamed Morsi strongly condemned the government’s escalation against MB members across Egypt dismissing it as “outrageous” and “unjustifiable.”..

Crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood Students Continues

Ten Muslim Brotherhood students were dismissed last week from two Egyptian universities, which comes as part of a security crackdown on student activists who belong to the largest opposition group in Egypt...

Somali Islamic Movement Condemns Piracy As Criminal Act

The source attributed this piracy to the absence of effective Somali government since 1991, and to the lack of security and stability, in addition to the diffusion of weapons in the hands of the people after the breakdown of the Somali army, where bandit groups began to appear throughout Somalia at the beginning of the nineties, in order to loot people’s properties or to take invalid royalties by force...

Arresting Five Muslim Brothers Amid Raids On Islamic Bookshops

The Egyptian security authorities launched a wide campaign of detentions against Muslim Brotherhood members and many Islamic bookshops owned by them, as the security forces raided many Islamic bookshops in last September...

The Muslim Brotherhood Condemns Terrorist Attacks in India

The MB strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in India, which killed and injured hundreds of innocent civilians. These despicable acts of terror are an attack on humanity in general, not against people from certain nationalities or civilization. We hope that perpetrators of these heinous be brought to justice to receive the ultimate punishment for their crimes...

Akef calls on Egyptian people to participate in relief convoys to Gaza

The statement called on the Yemeni government to direct all official mass media to carry out a campaign highlighting the catastrophic effects of the Israeli aggression and siege on Gaza. The statement also urged the government to invite an emergency Arab summit to take and implement decisive resolutions breaking the siege on Gaza...

Us State Department Chooses April 6th Movement To Take Part In Anti-Extremism Conference

Us State Department Chooses April 6th Movement To Take Part In Anti-Extremism Conference..

13 Damanhour Muslim Brotherhood Figures Arrested

For his part, Mohamed Sweidan, chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood’s administrative office in Beheira, urged the Muslim Brotherhood community in the governorate to remain restive and be patient because this repeated method of detention of innocent people, intimidation of children and beating of women will never sway freemen from maintaining the true path...

Statement of the Egyptian NPF on Patriotic Duty of Lifting the Fatal Siege On Gaza

Statement of the Egyptian National Political Forces’ on the Moral, Humanitarian, National, and Patriotic Duty of Lifting the Fatal Siege On Gaza..

Antony Loewenstein on blogging in rerpressive regimes

The bloggers I met with have very popular sites within their own country. Part of my job as a journalist is to talk with other journalists and tell them they ought to be paying more attention to these voices. It doesn’t mean that they will, but it’s likely these people will have an effect. During the Olympics, over Tibet, bloggers on both sides were shouting across each other. For one thing, language is a key problem. On the positive side, newspapers ran what Arab bloggers thought abou..

Damascus forum: The right of return at the core of the Palestinian cause

The participants in the Arab international right of return congress held in Syria issued Monday the Damascus declaration on the right of return, confirming that this right is inalienable and at the core of the Palestinian cause...