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POMED Notes: “The Origins of the Rule of Law: Europe and the Middle East”

Yesterday, in the third installment of his speaking series “Getting to Denmark: Where the State, Rule of Law and Accountable Government Come From,” Francis Fukuyama,..

POMED Notes: “The Challenge of Moderation in Islam: Egypt’s Religious Institution Versus Extremism”

The Middle East Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and the United States Institute of Peace sponsored a presentation by Grand Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa titled “The Challenge of Moderation in Islam: Egypt’s Religious Institution Versus Extremism.”..

Per Bjorklund: dealing with exile

“Welcome to my exile.” With those words trade union activist Mohammed al-Attar greeted me when I went to see him in Alexandria a few months ago...

Doctors, Brotherhood and ongoing struggle

Aboul Fotouh, the Secretary-General of the Arab Doctors Union, has been in government detention since late June, and is being charged with attempting to create a “global network of extremism” involving the banned Muslim Brotherhood group. He is also a member of the opposition group’s Guidance Bureau...

Preparations for 2010 Bahrain parliamentary elections in full swing.

For the third time since the establishing of parliament in Bahrain in 2001, Al Asalah will be contesting elections as a part of a political, economic and social reform programme. Although elections are more than a year away preparations are been made for the apparently hotly contested seats in parliament...

Getting to Know Afghanistan -- 8 Years Late

It's incredibly arrogant that after so long the United States argues that it knows what to do in Afghanistan while, at the same time, admitting in public that it has barely the faintest idea about how the country really works, says Robert Dreyfuss...

Deconstructing the Israeli Narrative

Separation of ethnicities is most apparent in how Israel and most of the world differ in regarding nationality. It’s not just separation. It’s a de facto apartheid, which the words ‘Jewish state’ will tend to reinforce, notes Dan Lieberman...

Postponement of appeal of 15 MB from Sharqia

The Fakous Misdemeanor Court today postponed looking into the appeal submitted by the Brotherhood's defense team challenging the decision of the detention of 15 leading Brotherhood figures from Sharqia. The hearing was formerly postponed to October 8 however another date has not been determined...

9 MBs from Beheira released and 3 others detained

State Security Services released 9 members of the Brotherhood from Al-Beheira free from the Cairo Criminal Court in 27, 29 September respectively who were detained in the renowned case known in the media as "Faris Barakat. They returned to their homes...

Morsy calls for a national “uprising to save Al-Aqsa

Dr. Mohamed Morsi, member of the Muslim Brotherhood Executive Bureau, condemned the Palestinian Authority's (PA) request to the UN Human Rights Council to postpone the consideration of the damning report prepared by the Commission of Inquiry to investigate war crimes against humanity, committed by Israel during the Gaza war...

Workshop in Cairo discusses Al-qaeda's future.

Political guests and researchers convened in Cairo to discuss the Al-Qaeda Movement on September 30. The seminar was attended by a number of researchers interested in studying the Islamic movements in Egypt, Iraq and Afghanistan...

Monofeya's Muslim Brotherhood's movements face arrests.

State security forces in Monofeya arrested 8 members of the Muslim Brotherhood who were visiting Eng. Mohamed Almahdy on October 6...

Israeli police threaten to use force to quell Palestinians inside Aqsa Mosque

Palestinian local sources said that the Israeli police at a late hour Monday demanded Palestinian worshipers holdin a vigil inside the Aqsa Mosque over loudspeakers to leave it within 15 minutes or else they would be forced out...

Amr: Abbas is responsible for delaying the vote on Goldstone’s report

For its part, the Palestinian community in Switzerland strongly denounced the PA irresponsible position against Goldstone’s report, saying that this position represented a political and moral decline and contradicted the interests and rights of the Palestinian people and the justice of their national cause...

IOF damage cultivated land, fire at Gaza suburb

More than 15 armored vehicles loaded with Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday escorted a bulldozer in an incursion east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza Strip, security sources reported...

IOA escalates its attack and incitement against Islamic Movement

The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) escalated its attack and incitement against the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied lands and accused its leaders of instigating disturbances in the Aqsa Mosque and urging Palestinians to hold a vigil inside the Mosque...

Al-Aqsa foundation: A new Israeli tunnel built under the Aqsa Mosque

Al-Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities almost finished the building of a new tunnel under the Aqsa Mosque...

Thousands of Turks demonstrate against Israeli attempt to storm the Aqsa

Thousands of Turkish people demonstrated on Monday in Istanbul's Taksim square denouncing the Israeli repeated attempts to storm the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem...

U.S. and Egypt: Partners on Free Expression?

The U.N. Human Rights Council, a body the U.S. only recently joined, passed a resolution on freedom of expression on Friday co-sponsored by the U.S. and Egypt. The Obama administration played up the resolution,..

Egypt: More members of the Muslim Brotherhood arrested

Alkarama has received news from Egypt regarding the arrests of two separate groups in Al-Buheira and Munufeya Governorate...