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Egypt: Strike wave shakes Mubarak regime

The biggest strike wave for decades has swept across Egypt in the past three months - a country where strikes are illegal and demonstrations of any sort face brutal, bloody

Appeals Lodged Against Freezing MB Leaders’ Assets

MB lawyers lodged appeals to challenge the regime’s unjustified decision of freezing assets of Muslim Brotherhood leaders. 

The Perils of Succession

There are few more profoundly grotesque and unjust practices in Egypt’s republican history than presidential referrals of civilians to military tribunals, civilians who have done nothing more than peacefully express

Mubarak Making Way For Terrorism

The ongoing state crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood has entered a new phase in which the confrontation between Egypt’s two main political rivals has been seriously escalating. It seems that

Egyptian Parliamentary Committee Threatens Ties Review Over POW Killings

An Egyptian parliamentary committee threatened, in an official statement, with reconsidering the relations with Israel "unless it holds accountable and punishes the perpetrators of the killings of Egyptian prisoners of

Press freedom in Egypt

The al-Jazeera reported today (Feb 27) that an Egyptian newspaper editor, who was convicted in June 2006 of defaming the country’s president, has his one-year jail term overturned and substituted

The US And Islam: A Widening Rift

It is no surprise that at the annual meeting of the US-Islamic World Forum in Doha last weekend, sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the state of Qatar, the focus

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Tunisia?

There’s trouble brewing, and it’s our fault. TUNIS, Tunisia"If you wanted to support democracy in the Arab world, why did you begin with your enemies instead of your friends? Why

Parties of God: The Bush Doctrine And The Rise of Islamic Democracy

Among the precepts of the Bush Doctrineas loyalists to the current president call the set of foreign-policy principles by which they, and no doubt he, hope his tenure will be

More Cases of Police Brutality in Egypt’s Damietta

Damietta policemen adopt torturing policy, assume absolute power Revealing torture cases and human rights violations is taking place every day in Egyptian police stations; there are many reports about more torture