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2008: The Same Old National Security Politics

Writing for RealClearPolitics, Gregory Scoblete laments Barack Obama’s inability and apparent unwillingness to bring a new perspective to national security politics that could have helped his party shed the “weak on security” stigma that has stuck in the consciousness of voters for several presidential election cycles...

2008: Who Would The Middle East Vote For?

In the latest “Doha Debates” episode, a monthly forum in Qatar broadcast by BBC World, 87 percent of the audience voted against the closing motion, “This House believes the Middle East would be better off with John McCain in the White House.” While that sounds like a resounding endorsement of Barack Obama, Mona Eltahawy reports that many members of the audience “expressed ambivalence about both candidates” and their ability to bring positive change to the Middle East...

Study Reveals 50,000 Egyptians Banned From Travel Abroad

A study by the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) revealed that more than 50,000 Egyptian citizens were banned from travelling abroad explaining that the reason for most of the cases goes back to judicial rulings issued against them...

Habib: NDP Attack On Opposition Proves Weakness, No New In Conference

In his statement to Ikhwanweb, MB Vice-Chair Dr. Mohamed Habib stressed that the NDP’s attack on the Egyptian opposition is a sign of their trembling pointing out that the conference had nothing new to offer or say. Habib added that the regime knows that it has lost all its credit from the people who are no longer deceived by its slogans and signs of social justice...

Bahr deplores Egypt for barring PLC delegation from traveling through Rafah

Dr. Ahmed Bahr, the acting speaker of the PLC, on Sunday strongly denounced Egypt for preventing the council delegation from traveling through the Rafah border crossing to make visits to a number of Arab and foreign countries at the invitation of their parliaments, considering this action actual participation in the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip...

Funding GONGOs against democracy

One of the characteristics of the anti-democracy backlash is that while some states are openly repressive towards independent NGOs, others maintain a more ambiguous position, allowing civil society groups to operate under restrictions and the threat of arbitrary interference or dissolution. Regimes are also being more proactive, forming tame, government-organized NGOs or GONGOs...

Alex Misdemeanors Court Releases Detainees of Al Jazeerah School

Consultancy Chamber at the misdemeanors court of Alexandria ordered the release of eight detained parents of Al Jazeerah School students. The released are Hosam Mohamed Monir (headmaster), Hisham Mohamed Monir, Mohamed Abdul Ssamad, Mohamed Abdul Wahhab, Mahir Ahmad Abdul Ghaffar, Hussein Mohamed Ezz El Din, Abdullah Mohamed Nagib, and Ayman Qindil. Al Jazeerah School witnessed intensive tragic events; especially the affliction of one of the parents of quadriplegia due to tortur..

Abdul Rahman Albarr And Nine Media Figures Reimprisoned For 15 Days

Presided by Judge Hisham El Badawi, State Security Prosecution of the 5th Complex district renewed prison decisions on Sunday November 12th for Abdurrahman Abdul- Barr; professor of Hadith and its Sciences at the faculty of Usul El Din and Da`wah (Principles of religion and Da`wah), Walid Mustafa Bakri (Cairo), Walid Mohamed El Geneedi (Giza), Khalid Hamid Mohamed (Ben Sewaif), Mohamed Ashraf Abdul Aal (Cairo), Bilal Mohamed Abdurrahman and Walid Abdulfattah (Cairo), Khalid Abu El Magd..

SS Dignity bids Gaza farewell

The SS Dignity left the Gaza Strip on Saturday with the foreign sympathizers on board after four days of their arrival where they toured various installations in the beleaguered Strip and brought with them medical supplies to the Shifa hospital in Gaza city...

Report: IOF troops killed six Palestinians including two children last month

A report issued by the Quds Press stated that the IOF troops killed during last October six Palestinian citizens including two children, which increased the number of those killed during this year to 471 victims most of them in the West Bank...

MB MP: Egypt’s Decline In World Classification of Press Freedom, Is Expected

Mohsen Radi (member of the parliamentary bloc of the Muslim Brotherhood and a member of the Committee on Information and Culture in PA) considered Egypt’s decline in the world classification of press freedom as an expected and a normal thing, especially under those unlimited restrictions imposed on the press...

Sit-in against NDP Conference

Some members of Kefaya movement and April 6 youth protested on Saturday, November 1st noon, before the Press Syndicate building, against holding the fifth conference for the National Ruling Party. Opponent forces had called sooner for that sit-in and it moved from in front of the Supreme Court building, at Cairo Center, to that near Press Syndicate building. The SSI forces blocked the place where the sit-in took place with large numbers of soldiers to prevent the protesters arrival...

Press Release: Women in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Pushing for Change

ist women, increasingly restless with their subordinate status in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, are pushing for greater representation and a wider role, according to a new paper from the Carnegie Middle East Center..

Women in Gaza rally at Rafah border crossing to protest its closure

The women sector in the Hamas Movement has called for a march on Saturday towards the closed Rafah terminal crossing with Egypt to demand its opening before civilian traffic...

European campaign to send int’l parliamentary delegation to Gaza by sea soon

The European campaign to lift the siege said Friday that it is making preparations to send a big multinational parliamentary delegation soon to the besieged Gaza Strip by sea after the Egyptian authorities barred it from entering the Strip through the Rafah border crossing...

Indonesia calls for Palestinian national unity, castigates Israeli occupation

The international humanitarian conference on the support of victims of the Israeli occupation in Palestine kicked off in the Indonesian capital Jakarta Friday under the title "End the occupation for a better life" with the participation of about 300 NGOs from 25 Islamic countries..

In the Shadow of the Brothers: The Women of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood

Islamist women, increasingly restless with their subordinate status in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, are pushing for greater representation and a wider role, according to a new paper from the Carnegie Middle East Center...

Women of the Brotherhood

In a recent Carnegie Endowment paper, Omayma Abdel-Latif investigates the role and status of women in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. She concludes that the Brotherhood leadership continues to subordinate its women members despite their recent assertiveness following the release of the 2007 draft party platform...

Political Reform At Home and Abroad

On the Washington Post’s “On Faith” blog, Daniel Brumberg writes about the “cathartic awakening” that free and fair elections can bring to a public made apathetic by years of autocratic rule. He notes that even the United States is prone to political apathy,..

Court Rejects Interior’s Challenge Against Release Rulings

North Cairo Court at the 5th Complex district rejected the demurral filed by the Ministry of Interior against the release rulings passed for 25 Muslim Brotherhood detainees last October 8th. They were detained four months ago from a resort city...