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Shabolla’s New Song

Egyptian pop singer Shaaban Abdel Rehim a.k.a "shabolla" is currently producing a song about the latest rumors concerning President Mubarak’s health, ..

Morsi: 9/11 a global calamity, not only for U.S.

Immediately after 9/11 attacks happened six years ago, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group condemned them, seeing them as totally divorced from any religion or creed, actions which are totally rejected by Islam...

Sinai Bedouins protest against security practices & begin an open sit-in

Hundreds of the north Sinai Bedouins resumed on Friday 7 September 2007, their protests against what they called the "security practices targeting them" by launching a sit-in in Rafah on Egypt’s borders with the Gaza Strip. ..

State Security Forces Storm Behera Islamic Bookstores

Al-Beheira State Security forces accompanied by IPR officers and some detectives broke almost simultaneously into Islamic bookstores in most regions in the governorate of El-Behera...

Hamas disbands journalists union amid continuing incidents

Reporters Without Borders today condemned Hamas’ decision on 3 September to dissolve the Gaza Strip branch of the Union of Palestinian Journalists,..

NDAW Public Statement Over Latest Detentions in Egypt

The Network of Democrats in the Arab World (NDAW) is following up with a severe concern the developments of the clashes between the Egyptian regime on the one hand and opposition and civil society on the other hand. After the confrontation between authorities and the judges and between authorities and journalists..

Independent newspaper editor to be tried for reporting rumours about president’s health

Reporters Without Borders condemns the charges that state security prosecutors yesterday brought against Al-Dustour editor Ibrahim Issa for publishing articles referring to rumours about President Hosni Mubarak’s health. Issa was accused of “spreading false reports likely to disturb public security and besmirch the country’s reputation.”..

"Egyptians against Torture" to Kick off

A number of anti-torture activists in Egypt call for establishing a committee called " Egyptians against Torture" to activate efforts of all those opposing systematic torture exercised by the Interior Ministry against Egyptian citizens...

Gov’t Strikes off MB Candidates from Tanta Sports Club Elections

Egyptian security stroke off four Muslim Brotherhood (MB) candidate s in Tanta sports club elections held on Friday Sep, 7th, 2007 , at the Tanta-based club, although the MB group’s was a symbolic participation aiming to contribute to serving the club...

Islamic party courts election victory in moderate Morocco

The Islamic party dominating Morocco’s electoral season has many faces _ among them bareheaded young women in jeans, marketing students preaching the gospel of global markets and legions of poor and disenfranchised. The Justice and Development Party’s cross-class, antiestablishment appeal could spell victory in parliamentary elections Friday. And that would pose a challenge to the secular government in this resort-lined Muslim kingdom _ and to its Western allies...

Jordan: IAF Launches Political Reform Initiative

The Islamic Action Front (IAF) Party has prepared a national draft initiative aiming to get out of the current political crisis in Jordan, said IAF first deputy Secretary-General Rahil Al Ghraeba...

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EVENTS: 1. Preaching Hatred in America ,2. Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the OIC on “The Role of the Media in West-Islam Relations” - Sept. 21, 3. My Trip to Al-Qaeda - by Lawrence Wright - Sept. 22-24..

A ’Dissident President’?

If President Bush really feels solidarity with Egypt’s Saad Eddin Ibrahim, he ought to act on it.WHEN HE met Egypt’s best known democracy advocate, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, at a conference in Prague in June,..

Mubarak blames Muslim Brotherhood for spreading rumors he is dead

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is on the offense against rumors that he was no longer functioning...

More Detentions Among Monoufia Students

Just ahead of the first semester, Egyptian security forces in the governorate of Monoufia, north of Cairo, raided on Wednesday at dawn, Sep. 5th, 2007, houses of five university students at Monofiya and arrested them...

Newspaper editor’s trial adjourned again

A Casablanca court adjourned newspaper editor Ahmed Benchemsi’s trial again during a second hearing on 31 August...

MB Parliamentary Bloc: Referring Al Sakhawi to Disciplinary Council a Settling of Political Scores

Dr. Hamdi Hassan, the media spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliamentary bloc, lamented the People’s Assembly decision of ..

Al Shater’s Military Trial Adjourned to next Sunday

The Military Tribunal trying 40 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders, topped by engineer Khairat Al Shater the second deputy chairman of the group, was adjourned to next Sunday..

Egyptian Journalist Questioned by State Security Over Mubarak Health Reports

Egyptian Higher State Security Prosecution summoned the editor-in-chief of the independent daily Al-Dustour, Ibrahim Eissa to appear before it on Wednesday after a lawyer submitted a complaint accusing him of circulating false rumors around health of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The subpoena raised worries of the Egyptian Press Syndicate...

Moroccan Elections: A new rise for Islamists?

In 7th September 2007, Morocco will undergo the parliamentary legislative elections, where many different ideological political parties will compete. Electoral campaign started on Saturday 25th August to attract the Moroccan voters and to explain to them the political and economic programs in order to guarantee the major number of votes for nominees...