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Farouk Hosni Calls Salafists Stumbling Blocks for Development

Farouk Hosni, the Egyptian Minister of Culture, said that the Salafists fundamentalists who adhere to a very strict interpretation of Islam, are responsible for the state of degradation and underdevelopment in Egypt, and that they try to influence the religious sentiments of the people for their own interests...

Use of Muslim militancy to defeat Arab nationalism a massive strategic error

Young Muslims are easy recruits for liberation groups such as al-Qaeda, the Taliban or Hamas..

MEO the Inauguration Conference of the European Authority for the Defense of Muslim Rights in Brussels

On the initiative of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe the Inauguration Conference for the European Authority for the Defense of Muslims Rights was held in Brussels on December 19th 2009...

Pro-Democracy Islamists Suffer in Crackdown

The Syrian government’s recent crackdown on Islamist figures known for their pro-democracy activities has highlighted the difficulty faced by political Islam in growing as a popular movement in Syria...

Gaza Freedom March Day Two: Arrests, a UN protest and Joe Sacco

I have, in the weeks prior to Code Pink D-Day of the 28th of December, received many e-mails and updates...

Suez Revenue Down $650 Million

A report issued by the Ministry of Economic Development on the lack of income generated by the Suez Canal has revealed that the revenues of the Canal dropped by $650 million in the past 3 months due to the world economic crisis that has caused international traffic to shrink in the first quarter of this year...

Egypt’s “Metal Wall” Punishes Hamas

The mounting criticism of the Egyptian Government by human rights organizations continued as Egypt began to construct a metal wall along its borders with Gaza Strip and prevented the passage of the Viva Palestina convoy to the Strip..

Egypt Reports 115 Swine Flu Deaths

Cairo: Three new deaths were reported as a result of the virus known as H1N1 on Monday raising the number of swine flu deaths to 115 in Egypt. A statement by the Ministry of Health said that the 113thcase is a 55 year-old man from Suez, the 114th is a 37 year-old woman from Fayoum and the 115th case is a 41 year-old woman from the Red Sea Governorate...

Amer: Freedoms in Egypt must be extorted

MP Mahmoud Amer, member of the Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary bloc and member of the Human Rights Committee in the Parliament, stressed that lost freedoms in Egypt will only be restored with serious national wills seeking reform and change via peaceful means...

Al-Sakhawy:Azhar education will continue despite all suspicious movements against it

A state of outrage and extreme condemnation filled the atmosphere in the Azhar University following the resolution issued by Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb with a recommendation by Prime Minister Ahmad Nazeef of appointing Dr. Kariman Mahmoud Al-Defaie, professor at the Faculty of Languages and Translation, as a principal of the libraries of the university at the level of the faculties in Cairo and other provinces...

An inspiring interview with military tribunal detainee Ayman Abdul Ghani

On interviewing engineer Ayman Abdul Ghani, one of the recently released MB military tribunal detainees, who served an unfair three-year sentence it, was inspiring to witness his cheerful temperament...

Defiance is the name of the game where release orders are ignored and MB members rearrested.

In a new series of defiance by the Ministry of Interior aided by state security, orders were issued for the rearrest of 5 members of the Muslim Brotherhood...

The trading of organs in Egypt faces opposition.

Soheila a 32-year-old from the fertile Nile Delta region is one of many people caught up in a thriving trade for illegal organs in Egypt, where there is no legal path to transplants...

Jordan witnesses relative majority for parliamentary democracy.

According to a study released on Monday in Amman 4 in 10 Jordanians prefer a democratic system in which the winning majority in Parliament forms a government...

The First Anniversary of Gaza Massacre

The Goldstone report described Israel's longstanding economic blockade of Gaza a form of 'collective punishment' against the population...

A $100m Bad Idea Then, a $650m Bad Idea Now

With the US government’s popularity ratings at all-time lows across the region, it should have been clear that a government propaganda arm would have trouble being respected as a legitimate news source...

Cast Lead 2

It seems that most of the people in the Gaza Strip are more or less satisfied with the functioning of the Hamas government...

Stymied in Cairo–still something is gelling among the international marchers

The Egyptian authorities have told the organizers of the Gaza Freedom March once, twice, three times and four that we can’t go to Gaza, but the organizers will go back a fifth, sixth and seventh time, Medea Benjamin promised outside the U.N. offices in Cario here today...

Muslim Brotherhood Elections: A Post-Game Report

There has been some discussion about the implications of the recent elections to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) top leadership committee, the Guidance Bureau...

‘Egyptian policy leads to the brothers becoming the enemy’

One year after Israel’s offensive in Gaza, the Egyptian government is still defending its policies surrounding the devastating three-week campaign as it pushes ahead with the construction of a steel wall between itself and its impoverished neighbour...