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A Successful Surgery for El-Shater

Engineer Khairat Al-Shater, second deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) who has been sentenced to jail for seven years according to a military tribunal, had a successful heart catheterizing surgery yesterday because of his health deterioration...

Israel ’has 150 nuclear weapons’

Ex-US President Jimmy Carter has said Israel has at least 150 atomic weapons in its arsenal. ..

There is No Taaefa Mansoura to Renew Emergency Law…

Maat center received the news of the Egyptian parliament’s discussion around republic president’s decision to extend the enforcement of Emergency Law, without regarding emergency case’s deletion if the new law to challenge terrorism is issued, with severe surprise and unique astonishing..

Muslim Brotherhood Chairman congratulates Michel Suleiman

Mohamed Mahdy Akef; chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, congratulates the Lebanese on the agreement on national unity that led to the election of Michel Suleiman as a president of the state...

Emergency Law in Egypt Extended till 2010

Egyptian Opposition Parliament members have declared their total refuse today of the government¢s decision concerning extending the emergency law...

Egyptian MPs Statement on Extending Emergency rule for two years

We do confirm that- out of our respect to constitution and laws- we refuse the extension of emergency rule because we are not under wars or natural catastrophes. ..

El Shater to be catheterizing

Engineer Khairat Al-Shatter- who has been sentenced for seven years in the military tribunal against the MB leaders- will be operated on tomorrow for heart catheterizing due to severely suffering from deteriorating health and repeated heart attack in jailing...

McCain Rejects Hagee: How Long Before Major American Jewish Groups Do the Same?

John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), is known in the U.S. as a strong supporter of Israel. He’s very close to prominent Jewish organizations – even giving the keynote at the 2007 AIPAC conference – who promote him as a friend of Israel and Jews...

Hamas deplores Abbas’s grief over future of talks with Olmert

The Hamas Movement strongly denounced the statements made by PA chief Mahmoud Abbas in which he expressed his fears that the corruption investigation against Israeli premier Ehud Olmert could lead to the halt of peace negotiations, calling on him to wager on the Palestinian people rather than on Olmert...

Nine MB members arrested today

Egyptian state security forces launched an arrest campaign on Sunday dawn at Sharqeya governorate in which nine Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members were arrested without any clear reasons for their arrest...

Abu Hashem: Hamas insists on factions’ conditions for calm

Jamal Abu Hashem, one of the Hamas political leaders, has said that his Movement insists on the conditions for calm with the Israeli occupation authority that were unanimously approved by all Palestinian factions...

A new web site for the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information

"The new official website of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information on the internet will be: "www.anhri.net " instead of the old URL: "www.hrinfo.net" or "www.hrinfo.org", where the old site is no longer expresses in its behalf and the network is no more responsible for its content."..

Mishaal: Palestinians determined to break the siege

Khaled Mishaal, the chairman of the Hamas Movement’s political bureau, stressed on Saturday that the Palestinian people would unilaterally break the siege if the world community and the concerned parties failed to do so...

long beards vs short beards

I haven’t had time to follow the Kuwaiti elections as closely as I would have liked, but the results are interesting. Most of the English-language coverage has emphasized that Islamists did well, increasing their share of Parliament to 21 out of 50 seats, women again failed to win any seats, and liberals roughly held steady...

We’re not celebrating Israel’s anniversary

The Guardian, Wednesday April 30 2008 Article historyIn May, Jewish organisations will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. This is understandable in the context of centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust...

Egyptian Lawyers Rally on Sunday Outside Parliament to Protest New Law

The local branches of the Lawyers’ Syndicate in coordination with main headquarters in Cairo invited all Egyptian lawyers to rally on Sunday in their black ropes outisde the Parliament buliding at 10:00 AM to protest new law proposed by member of the rulling National Democratic Party (NDP) to impose government’s guardianship over their Syndicate...

Security Forces Arrest Three MB College Students

State Security Forces arrested three MB students from Al-Fayoum University days before their final exams. The three were referred to the prosecution and were ordered to be released immediately, however the three remained in custody. ..

Spirits of 1968

In May 1968, student protests in Paris challenged the foundations of the social order in the heart of the industrially advanced West. Al-Ahram Weekly investigates what remains of the wave of student activism that swept the world 40 years ago and recalls events at the time in Egypt ..

Internet Alone Won’t Change Politics

The Current Discussion: Egypt has detained a number of its citizens for using the social networking site Facebook to organize anti-government protests. What online sites are most effective in influencing politics -- and is the impact positive?..

Poll: Majority of Egyptians Will Not Vote for Woman President

A recent study conducted by the Cabinet’s Information Center found that the Egyptians refuse the woman as a president f the country and exclude such an idea for the near future...