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Refusing talk to facilitate talk – the paradox of Islamist dialogue: An overdue task or an exercise

The Bill and Sally Hambrecht Distinguished Peacemakers Lectures at AUB — Lecture by Alastair Crooke, The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs,..

Egypt press shows mixed reaction to European Parliament’s human rights move

The European Parliament (EP) convened as scheduled on 17 January and passed a resolution criticizing the human rights situation in Egypt. From the start, Cairo’s reaction was sharp, including the cancellation of political talks with senior EU officials and criticism of "the situation of minorities in Europe"...

A New torture scandal for the Egyptian regime

I do not know if fate is mocking from the Egyptian regime or what ,as in the past two weeks all officials from ministers to unofficial from Kefaya movements slammed the resolution of the EP ,even President Mubarak slammed the resolution from two weeks ago in the Cairo’s book fair when he said his words :..

Kuwait: A New Law Increasing Censorship And Opinion Repression

The Arabic Network for Human Rights information stated Today that the new law the Kuwaiti government is going to present to the parliament for censoring websites, is contradictory to the dominant trend in most of the world democratic countries which recommends the increase of freedom of expression especially on the internet...

HRW Calls on Syrian Authorities Immediately Release Detained Activists

Human Rights Watch said in a report issued on Wednesday Feb, 6th, 2008 he Syrian government has arbitrarily arrested 12 activists who attended an opposition group meeting in December...

Violit Dagher Back to Cairo, Monday Sees Last MB Military Session

Violit Dagher, chairperson of the Arab Commission for Human Rights, has arrived in Cairo to follow up the human rights file, toped by the military trials facing 40 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders, and the violations committed against journalists for practicing the freedom of expression, the latest of which were jail sentences issued against four editors-in-chief of independent dailies...

Violette Daghere in Cairo to Meet Top Gov’t Officials

Violette Daghere, head of the Paris-based Arab Committee on Human Rights, is currently in Cairo to observe developments in human rights issues in Egypt , including the notorious military tribunals against 40 Muslim Brotherhood senior members, recent violations of freedom of expression, particularly the prison sentence against 4 editors of independent newspapers...

Hebrew sources: Peres personally supervised IOF massacre in Khan Younis

Hebrew sources have unveiled on Tuesday that the Israeli president Shimon Peres had personally supervised on Tuesday the IOF massacre in Khan Younis that claimed seven Palestinian lives and seriously wounded ten others...

IOF troops kidnap Hamas spokesman five days after releasing him

IOF troops at dawn Wednesday kidnapped Sheikh Abdul Baset Al-Haj, the Hamas Movement’s former spokesman in Jenin, from his hometown Jalkamos only five days after releasing him...

Bush Admits He Plans to Attack Iran ?

Does This Video Confirm That Bush Intends To Attack Iran? You decide...

Iraqi scientist gave CIA information that should have prevented war

When Saad Tawfiq watched then-US Secretary of state Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations on February 5, 2003, he shed bitter tears as he realized he had risked his life and those of his loved ones for nothing...

Israeli artillery kills seven policemen in Khan Younis

The IOF troops killed Tuesday evening seven Palestinian policemen affiliated with the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, and wounded four others after they fired a ground-to-ground missile at their position in the Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip...

Hayya warns of new closure of Rafah crossing

MP Dr. Khalil Al-Hayya, one of the Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip, has warned of any new closure of the Rafah crossing between the Strip and Egypt...

Hamas: Media campaigns would not succeed in smearing our image

The Hamas Movement has underlined that the media campaign launched by some papers against the Movement would not succeed in smearing its image or weakening the Egyptian and Arab sympathy with it...

Irish solidarity delegation visits popular committee in Gaza

A delegation from an Irish society in solidarity with the Palestinian people visited the headquarters of the popular committee against the siege in Gaza and met with its head MP Jamal Al-Khudari...

MB Bloc Denounces Palestinian Egyptian Border Skirmishes

Hussein Mohamed Ibrahim, vice-chairman and spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliamentary bloc, lamented the skirmishes that took place place at Egypt-Gaza borders on Monday evening killing a Palestinian citizen and injuring 14 others, plus wounding 46 Egyptian security forces...

Report: 2007 Worst for Egyptian journalists

The International Committee to Protect Journalists held a press conference on Monday morning Feb, 4th 2008, in the Egyptian Press Syndicate where it declared its report entitled "Aggressions against the Press" around the situation of press and journalists in 2007. ..

Abbas’s authority condemns Dimona bombing

The PA leadership led by Mahmoud Abbas on Monday condemned the Palestinian resistance attack on a Dimona mall in the Negev desert that inflicted a number of Zionist casualties. ..

Israeli air raid kills senior commander of Salahuddin Brigades

Israeli warplanes assassinated at noon Monday Amer Karmout, a senior leader of the Salahuddin Brigades, the armed wing of the popular resistance committees, in a missile raid targeting his car in Beit Lahia town, northern Gaza Strip...

Olmert: Building security fence along borders with Egypt a necessity

An Israeli official quoted his premier Ehud Olmert as saying on Sunday that building a security fence along the borders with Egypt had become a necessity...