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Consuming Our Way to Unhappiness

Everywhere we turn lately, ads -- holiday, post-holiday, and year-end -- have been encouraging us to shop in a concerted and somewhat desperate effort to salvage the economy. But where does all the stuff we’re buying actually come from? ..

A Slave Government

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Mr. Minister of Social Solidarity .. Do you have an answer?

"Abu Halawa" is an Egyptian citizen. He is 26 years old. He graduated from college and did not find work in his village: El Horeyah. And so he devoted himself to educating the boys and girls who dropped out from school. He also tried to help farmers get alternative lands and to improve the conditions of public services in the faraway village of " El Horeyah", which is located in the province of Dekrines, Dakahlia Governorate...

International Conference to Fight Clash of Civilizations

The Spanish city of Madrid witnesses on Tuesday, Jan, 15th, 2008 the first international conference for a dialogue between civilizations. Its importance stems from the fact that it is a beginning for establishing the initiative of the Coalition of Civilizations. Add to this that the conference will include about 500 prominent figures including presidents, thinkers and representatives of international organizations and non governmental organizations...

Habib Criticizes Bush’s visit, Sarkozy’s Anti-MB Statements

Dr. Mohamed Habib, the first deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), attributed the visit of the US President to the region to George Bush’s desire to form a front of Arab nations to confront Iran and its project in the region under the claim that there is an Iranian threat to the countries in the region. Bush aims also through this to cover the US-backed Zionist project, according to the MB leader...

Khairat Al-Shater Skips MB Trial Session for Health Reasons

Engineer Khairat Al-Shater, the second deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) suffered from diabetes complications and a high blood pressure which prevented him from attending Monday’s military session..

Habib: Muslim Brotherhood is Not Anti-American

“The Democrats themselves explicitly acknowledged the fact that the foreign as well as domestic policies adopted by the Bush administration have led to the loss of international respect to America, which necessitates a lot of subsequent efforts to retain it,” Habib added. “But I repeat, there is a huge difference between our vision of the U.S. administration, and the American people. A significant number of Americans oppose George Bush’s policies, and Millions of them took part in an..

Fayyad incites Bush against moderate Fatah leaders

Well-informed Palestinian sources revealed that the "illegitimate" PA premier Salam Fayyad has reportedly instigated US president George W. Bush to pressure PA chief Mahmoud Abbas to fire two moderate Fatah leaders supporting unconditional dialogue with Hamas...

How The Arab Press Sees Bush Trip

If Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder, So Is News In The Expanding Universe Of Middle East Media..

Q&A: Public diplomacy at the Pentagon

Last May, Michael Doran became the first deputy assistant secretary of Defense for support to public diplomacy, a newly created position to develop policy for strategic communications at Defense. Earlier this week, Government Executive interviewed Doran at his office in Arlington, Va. Edited excerpts from the interview follow:..

Poll finds Turks oppose headscarf ban in universities

The newly appointed Higher Education Board (YضK) president’s first comments have led to a flare up in the debate over the headscarf ban in universities...

Turkey to change free speech law

Turkey is expected to amend a heavily criticised law which makes "insulting Turkishness" illegal, in order to improve its chances of entering the EU...

MB Military Tribunal Adjourned till Jan, 14th to resume Defense Pleading

The Military Court will resume its sessions on Monday Jan, 14th, in the trial of 40 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders topped by Khairat Al Shater the second deputy chairman of the group and Dr. Mohamed Ali Beshr a member of the group’s Executive Office...

Muslim Brotherhood Statement Rejects Bush’s Egypt Visit

Many parties in the Egyptian political landscape have condemned the planned visit of the US President George Bush to Egypt , expected to kick off within days as a part of the US President’s current tour in the Middle East ...

The Arabs: Between fitna, fawda and the deep blue sea

IT IS not easy to be an Arab these days. If you are old, the place where you live is likely to have changed so much that little seems friendly and familiar. If you are young, years of rote learning in dreary state schools did not prepare you well for this new world...

Islam in Indonesia --- Where “soft Islam” is on the march

Indonesia has some worrying radicals but it seems to be following Turkey, with Islamists moderating as they get closer to power IS INDONESIA, the most populous Muslim-majority country, undergoing creeping Islamisation? It is not hard to assemble enough recent evidence to give Western Islamophobes goosebumps. ..

Open Letter to Saudi King to Release the Saudi Blogger”Ahmed Al-Farhan”

Both the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo), and Reporters Without Borders organization have sent a request to king Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the king of Saudi Arabia , to release the blogger “Ahmed Fouad Al-Farhan” who has been held in prison for the past month...

Islam and democracy The practice—and the theory

“TURKEY sets a fantastic example for nations around the world to see where it’s possible to have a democracy coexist with a great religion like Islam.” Those were George Bush’s words of welcome, this week, to Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul...

Khudari: Int’l community must rescind economic sanctions on Palestinians

Chairman of the Siege Popular Committee Against Siege in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Jamal Al-Khudari, has welcomed Saturday the decision of the International Food Program to increase humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. ..

Speedy IOF jeep runs over little Palestinian girl in Nablus

An IOF speedy jeep hit a little Palestinian girl called Jihan Samaro from the Hawara town south of Nablus city, northern West Bank, while trying to cross to the other side of a main road with her mother. ..