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Suhaj University Dismisses 43 Students over Palestinian Demonstration

Dr. Mostafa Kamal, the chairman of Suhaj University, south of Cairo, issued a decision of dismissing 43 students on suspicions of participating in a demonstration staged by the students last

Abdul Qoddous Equates Mubarak’s Regime With IOF

Mohamed Abdul Qoddous, the head of the Press Syndicate’s freedoms committee, said after he was released last Saturday evening that Mubarak’s regime proved that there is no difference between it

Failure of American foreign policy and the diminishing imperial influence

Local and international pressures are mounting on the US administration regarding the occupation of Iraq and what the American forces are facing there. In a conspicuous development 79 US Senators

Israeli historian: “blood libel” not completely unfounded

A prominent Israeli Jewish historian has revealed that the medieval canard about Jews killing Christian children and using their blood in making pasta for the Jewish holiday of Passover is

Hamas: Before and after Makkah

Does the landmark national reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas in Makkah signify a certain transformation in Hamas’s political outlook? Is Hamas becoming more pragmatic, whatever that means in real

A Dangerous Moment in American History (Part 1&2)

A Dangerous Moment in American History (Part 1) Top Democrats have the support of most Americans in saying that the war in Iraq should end as soon as possible, even if

Workers’ strikes against corruption and savagery of the market

This report is issue no. 54 of LCHR’s Economic & Social Rights series. The report monitors a wave of workers’ strikes and protests during the second half of 2006, which

Al-Masri: We Condemn the Bombing, Syria Can Solve Lebanese Crisis

Commenting on the bombing that occurred in Beirut, Mr. Ibrahim Al-Masri, the UnderSecretary-General of the Islamic Group in Lebanon, said that although this spate of assassinations have been repeatedly committed

Work Strike in Tanta Company for Linen & Derivatives

More than one thousand workers in the Tanta company for linen and oils, Gharbiya  north of Cairo, staged an open work strike, protesting at reducing incentives by about half and

Death wish in Vain: Father Died without Seeing His Detained Son

Despite repeated calls of the family of the student Hani Mohamed Bakr, detained on Al-Azhar students case, to the Interior Minister, that Hani must be released to see his ill