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Haneyya government warns of impact of Ashkenazi’s threats against Gaza

The Palestinian government headed by premier Ismail Haneyya warned on Wednesday of the impact of the serious remarks made by Israeli chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi about waging another all-out war on the Gaza Strip...

IOF soldiers storm Balata, wound fisherman in Gaza

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus city, at an early hour on Wednesday and paralyzed life in the camp for almost an hour...

Farwana: 350 Jerusalemites detained in IOA in jails without any rights

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) is detaining 350 Jerusalemites in its jails including four females without according them any rights, Abdul Nasser Farwana, an expert in prisoners affairs, said...

Egypt: Ruling party conference ends with Brotherhood attacks

The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) ended its 6th annual three-day conference in Cairo on Monday, with a series of bashings at the Muslim Brotherhood. The conference, which had run under the title “Just For You,” included an opening speech from President Hosni Mubarak to a crowd of 2,500 NPD party members and media in a rare public display for the aging president...

Audit of USAID Democracy Programs in Egypt

Last week, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a comprehensive new report entitled, “Audit of USAID/Egypt’s Democracy and Governance Activities,” which evaluates the effectiveness of USAID’s democracy and governance programs in Egypt through Fiscal Year 2008...

Engineers optimistic despite postponed hearings.

Engineers are optimistic that the judiciary will allow the engineers their due with regards to the impending verdict of the Engineers syndicate case...

Postponement: November 5 scheduled for Khayrat el-Shater and his companions appeals.

Once again prosecutors postponed the hearing of Eng. Khayrat el-Shater and his companions' appeals. A later date November 5 was scheduled demonstrating yet further injustices to the movement's deputy vice...

University's teaching staff rally in protest to Badr's decisions.

Over 400 of Ein Shams' University's staff will gather and rally in front of Hany Helal Minister of Higher Education's office indicating their distaste to a resolution made by the president of the University Ahmed Zaki Badr...

Egyptian Intellectuals: Church of great importance to country not exclusive to particular sect.

Coptic intellectuals warned that the Egyptian church may be transformed from being a church of God into a church belonging to a very closed-minded Christian sect. He called for the initiating of open and social "Dialogue for the Future" on two levels...

Middle Eastern Democrats and Their Vision of the Future

Democrats in the Middle East have been fighting uphill battles to reform and open up their political space. Some governments have conceded to local demands for partial reform and relaxed political control and the advent of the internet and satellite television have provided additional safe space for emerging civic networks...

Engaging the Muslim World

President Barack Obama's election and President Barack Obama's election and post-inauguration statements on political Islam and his speeches in Turkey and Cairo have resonated well in the Muslim world, reflecting a willingness to move beyond the confrontational policy of the previous administration to a new era of "smart diplomacy"...

One Year After Cairo

In a much-anticipated speech in June 2009, President Barack Obama, speaking from the Egyptian capital, sought a "new beginning" in U.S. relations with the Muslim world...

Islam and Democracy - Towards an Effective Citizenship

The Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy is organizing four "Train the Trainer" Workshops in Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, and Bahrain,..

Cessation Court reviews military tribunal detainees' appeals

Hearing will be resumed Tuesday November 3, of the appeals filed by Eng. Khayrat el-Shater and his companions who are currently serving harsh sentences. The vice-deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood movement was tried by military tribunal in unjust conditions and sentenced in April, 2008 along with 25 other highly ranked leaders both within Egypt and abroad in the renowned case no. 2 of 2007. Sentences ranged between 3-10 years and 10 other members were acquitted...

Kifaya: Mubarak sacked Mansour to give a warning message to his son; he is still the effective ruler of Egypt

Dr. Abdel-Halim Kandeel, the general coordinator of the Kefaya movement, said that Egypt's transport minister, Mohamed Lotfy Mansour, was forced to resign on Tuesday in a brief statement from the Presidency Hosni Mubarak revealed he had accepted Mansour's resignation, but without giving further details...

Robert Fisk’s World: The truth about the Middle East is buried beneath the headlines

Amira Hass was spot on when she said last week that her lifetime women's award was an award for failure. The West Bank correspondent of the Israeli paper Haaretz eloquently explained herself on al-Jazeera's English channel. She received an award for failure, she said, because despite all the facts that she and her journalistic colleagues had explained about Israeli occupation in Palestine, the world still did not understand what occupation meant and still used words like "terror" and "war on terror". Amira was absolutely correct. Most of our Western press and television are as gutless as ever when they have to participate in what Noam Chomsky described as "the manufacture of consent"...

The detention of 10 Engineer Students from Helwan.

Prosecutors decided today to detain 10 Muslim Brotherhood students from the Faculty of Engineering from Helwan University. The students were charged with the same accusations in which the movement's members has become accustomed to...

Egypt : WGAD informed of successive waves of arbitrary arrests and detentions of Muslim Brotherhood members

In the past 3 months, the Egyptian government has carried out successive mass arrests of leading members of the countries largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, including Dr Ashraff Abdel Ghaffar and Dr Ahmed Heshmat. Alkarama has been following these cases and, on 27 October 2009, submitted 112 cases of arbitrary arrest and detention of the Muslim Brotherhoods leaders and followers to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD)...

The detention of 10 Engineer Students from Helwan.

Prosecutors decided today to detain 10 Muslim Brotherhood students from the Faculty of Engineering from Helwan University. The students were charged with the same accusations in which the movement's members has become accustomed to...

How Arabs Transformed Western Civilization

The African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress is sponsoring a series of lectures on Iraq history and society. Jonathan Lyons, a researcher at the Global Terrorism Research Center at Monash University, Victoria, Australia, discussed his new book, “The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization.”..