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Interrogations spark a fierce confrontation between the government and MB bloc

The parliamentary session today witnessed a fierce confrontation between the MPs from the MB Parliamentary bloc and the government regarding the interrogations by the MB MPs on the educational crisis,..

Hassan: Egypt which destroyed the Bar-Lev barrier is now protecting Israel with an iron wall.

MP Hamdy Hassan, spokesman of the MB Parliamentary bloc, submitted an urgent statement to the Prime Minister, Ahmed Nazif, on the establishment of an iron fence between Egypt and Palestine...

Muslim Brotherhood Movement Chairman Mr Mohamed Mahdi Akef criticizes the shunning of the movement.

Shunning of Muslim Brotherhood Movement raises questions of sincerity and transparency of opposition...

Jordan: Most surprising and comprehensive political reform in two decades.

Late November witnessed Jordan's King Abdullah II dropping a large stone in the country's stagnant political pool, stirring up what could be the country's most far-reaching political reform in two decades...

Detainees threaten to go on hunger strike.

Detained members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement have threatened to go on a hunger strike in objection to the poor conditions and negligence of the administration to detainees in Damanhur's prison...

Cairo: Criminal Court stands by its release order for Muslim Brotherhood detainees

The Criminal Court in Cairo decided on ruling in favor once again for the release of Mohamed Sweidan and nine other members of the Muslim Brotherhood who were arrested on September 26, 2009...

Cairo's University's teaching staff face tough elections ahead.

The Committee for the "Cairo's University's teaching Staff" announced the names that are to be submitted on their nomination list for elections which are scheduled to take place December, 30...

Islamists in Jordan call for support of Palestinian resistance.

In commemoration of the 22nd anniversary of the first Intifada, the Islamist movement on Thursday December 17, called for the support of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation...

Unofficial Transcript of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Sppech at the SETA

Dear Participants, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to extend to you my most heartfelt greetings, and especially emphasize my joy to gather with you at the grand opening of the Washington Branch of The Foundation for Political, Economic, and Social Research...

Endless crisis?

Dozens of engineers gathered on Monday noon in front of the Cairo Southern Court in Bab Al-Khalq calling for a lifting of the 14-year-long judicial sequestration imposed upon their syndicate...

CEDEJ library threatened with closure

I just found out from a friend that the library at the Centre d’?tudes et de Documentation ?conomiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ) in Cairo is scheduled to be closed due to budgetary constraints...

The (new) Gaza wall

al-Masri al-Youm English has what may be the first close-up picture of the new wall being constructed at the border between Egypt and Gaza, revealed last week by Haaretz...

Norway's Ethical Leadership

Steps taken by Britain, Sweden, and Norway acknowledge the illegitimate nature of several Israeli policies against Palestinians -- pressuring Israel to change those policies, says Rami G. Khouri...

Needed for Mideast Peace: A Sense of Urgency

If walking away is irresponsible move of Obama, what is the best way forward? Asks Martin Indyk...

Whatever Mistakes We Have Made

Obama also claimed that US interventions in other countries are designed to bring 'stability' and 'security.'..

Israel’s Fictional Undivided Jerusalem

The disturbing reality that emerges from an examination of Israeli practices in the area around Jerusalem exposes, quite simply, that their efforts speak more of a naked land grab of Palestinian territory than they do of religion, writes James Zogby...

Bombing Quetta?

An attack on Quetta, and on the leadership of the Afghan Taliban is something else entirely - and not just because bombing Quetta would probably result in mass civilian casualties, argues Robert Dreyfuss...

Al-Qaeda threat used once again to justify war

The old cliché that the first casualty of war is truth has never been so blatantly evident as we witness the making of further wars and conflict...

Egypt: Ahmed Douma, student blogger, tortured during detention in Damanhour prison

Ahmed Saad Douma, a 20-year-old blogger and student at Tanta University, was arrested by State Security Intelligence (SSI -Amn Al-Dowla) at the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on 4 February 2009...

Steve York talks “Bringing down the Dictator”

Steve York is the director of the documentary “Bringing Down a Dictator”, which focuses on the fall of Solbodan Milosevic, beginning with his stepping up of violence in Kosovo in 1998 and ending with his defeat in 2000 largely by the efforts of non-violent student group Otpor! (resistance in Serbian)...