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Sayed Qotb After 40 Years: Questions Which Have Never Perished

I couldn’t forget the occasion in which I knew that Sayed Qotb was executed in late September 1966 although many years passed since then. This burning recall isn’t because I

Love Music Hate Islamophobia

Muslim and non-Muslim musicians performing together and a debate on the issue of Islamophobia and how we can fight it.

Egypt: Judicial Challenges Threaten Parliament With Dissolution

The court has, so far, received 1050 challenges which could lead to the annulling of membership of a large number of MPs, most of them belonging to the ruling party,

U.S. seen retreating from democracy push

The United States has quietly retreated from its high-profile push for democracy in the Muslim world, since the Hamas election stunned the Bush administration by bringing a violent militant group

Message From Denmark’s Embassy in Cairo

Dear sir, I am writing to you regarding the article "The Road to the Muslim Holocaust" by Ghali Hassan dated 11 October, which I came across on your website. While I

Mubarak’s quarter of a century

Elevated to the presidency in the wake of Anwar Sadat’s assassination, few Egyptians can have predicted in those turbulent times that their then-vice president, Hosni Mubarak, would still be in

Arab media remain partisan and unprofessional

Increasing calls for media independence are part of the new political reality in the Arab world; such calls have been particularly strong regarding media coverage of elections. In response, some

’Isms of Our Age

Some may have become things of the past, but the ’isms of the post-Revolutionary era have been instrumental in shaping today’s political, cultural and intellectual debates

A deadly day in Baghdad for journalists

Reporters Without Borders voiced shock at an armed attack on the privately-owned Iraqi TV station Al Shaabiya today that left at least eight employees dead and several wounded. The press