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Fervor and Film: 2nd Annual Human Rights Film Fest

The 2009 Cairo Human Rights Film Festival commences next week with screenings from December 20 through the 23...

Nile Basin Initiative celebrates 10 years with stalemate

The Nile Basin Initiative looks to a third meeting of ministers this year to end an ongoing dispute with Cairo over water sharing, but as they celebrate a decade of the initiative, prospects of resolving the infighting are doubtful...

Genetically Modified food: yes or no?

The field is pristine with rows of plants line the paths as Gamal Mahmoud Sayyid rummages through the dirt. He lifts of pile of brown soil in his hand..

World wants more cooperative governments

As the European Union begins to implement a new treaty aimed at assisting member nations to work together, and as American President Barack Obama is to receive a Nobel Prize awarded for his efforts in international cooperation, a WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of peoples in 21 nations across the globe has discovered that public opinion in 14 of the nations surveyed think their governments should be more ready to cooperate with others to achieve mutual gains...

State Security's rampage result in arrests and confiscations of personal belongings.

MP Hesham Alady condemned the insistence of the ruling regime's detentions of innocent members of society...

Egypt's Islamic intellectuals condemn French Justice Minister over veil comments

Egyptian Islamic thinkers have condemned French Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie over comments she said on a recent television interview...

Book review: Alastair Crooke's "Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution"

The title of Alastair Crooke's book Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution may easily invoke the late Palestinian thinker Edward Said's critiques of trying to essentialize Islam...

Egypt: El-Baradei, a serious candidate

CAIRO - Possible candidate for the Egyptian presidency, the former IAEA chief Mohammed El-Baradei could well become a dangerous opponent even if his chances of winning are very slim, analysts said...

Ex-IAEA chief could become Egypt's leading dissident

Former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei’s comments about his candidacy in Egypt’s 2011 presidential elections caused a stirring debate in the country,..

Egypt blocks Muslim Brotherhood hospital for poors

Construction workers have been hacking away since Monday with heavy duty compressors at the walls of the Islamic Medical Association's Central Charity Hospital, witnesses said. It was due to open before a parliamentary election later next year...

This Is What Democracy Might Look Like!

Khalil al-Anani’s recentish article on the young reformists of the Muslim Brotherhood, and particularly the desire, expressed in the article and elsewhere,..

Bastion of Impunity, Mirage of Reform

Today the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies released its second annual report on the state of human rights in the Arab world for the year 2009...

Mohammed Mahdi Akef: Have faith for there will be a bright tomorrow for the Islamic nation.

In his weekly statement to the Muslim Brotherhood movement the chairman Mr. Mohammed Mahdi Akef,..

US men in Pakistan 'jihad quest'

Five US men have been questioned in Pakistan on suspicion of wanting to join a "holy war", officials said...

Afghans angry at Obama's Nobel win

Barack Obama, the US president, has received the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo - days after he ordered an escalation of US involvement in the war in Afghanistan...

Afghan demonstrators call for trial of "war criminals"

KABUL, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Some 300 Afghans including women gathered in a street close to the office of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Thursday and called for the trial of "war criminals"...

Afghans protest civilian killings by US forces

Hundreds of Afghans have taken to the streets of the capital Kabul to protest a recent NATO airstrike which killed a number of civilians in the war-ravaged country...

Kuwait: Hadass demands the Kuwaiti government acknowledge rights of the Bidun.

A crisis escalated after the Kuwaiti parliament failed to attain a resolution on the topic of the indefinite nationality of the "Bidun" in Kuwait...

Egypt: Ahmed Abdelradi severely tortured by Aswan police

Ahmed Rajab Abdelradi, a 23 year old chemist from Aswan, was arrested on 12 November 2009, and was later severely tortured while in the custody of the Investigative Branch of the Aswan Police Department...

Muslim Brotherhood's popularity will never be forgotten, Al-Bara.

Muslim Brotherhood's popularity will never be forgotten, Al-Bara. Ikhwanweb's Editor holds an interview with Mahmoud Al-Bara..