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98 Muslim Brotherhood Detainees Released

The High State Security Prosecution Thursday July 4, 2006, decided to release on bail 98 of detainees belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood while it extended the detention of 31 others.

9000 to 1

Recent editorials in the New York Times and Washington Post (among others) about how the Palestinians are getting their come-uppance in the current bombing of Gaza are so far removed

Back to “serving the people”

I don’t know when, but it was likely sometime during the 1990s Dirty War that the Egyptian Interior Ministry decided to change its motto, usually printed on dusty signs that

Western Union Profiles Muslim Names

Money transfer agencies like Western Union have delayed or blocked thousands of cash deliveries on suspicion of terrorist connections simply because senders or recipients have names like Mohammed or Ahmed,

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to make a movie

The Muslim Brotherhood is pressing on with arguably its most ambitious endeavor to date. A movie. The theme is the life of the outlawed group’s founder, social and political reformer

Palestinian Prisoners In Israeli Jails, The Untold Story

More than 9,300 Palestinian prisoners live in inhumane conditions in about 30 Israeli prisons, with no attention given to them by the international community. Two months ago, former Palestinian prisoners,

Who Stands behind torture in Egypt ?

11 leading states topped by the US stand behind torture in Egypt and Middle East countries.  Why did scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamu prisons pass the Arab countries unnoticed?

Activists call for an end to imprisonments

 Activists have continued to call for the release of their fellow activists who remain in prison. Egypt’s most famous blogger, Alaa Seif Al Islam, is spearheading the current move to

Egypt: The Gamal Mubarak Paradox

Among the ironies of Egypt’s stalled process of political reform is that it is inextricably linked to the future of 42-year old presidential scion Gamal Mubarak. The younger Mubarak fashions

AlTekriti: Most Iraqi Resistance Disavows OBL statements

P class=MsoNormal dir=rtl style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left> class=MsoNormal dir=rtl style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left>Commenting on the statements made by Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden