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With God, or without

Atheists and religious people can fight oppression together In the early 1980s I joined my local branch of CND. We met in the Quaker meeting hall because they let us

View from Dubai: Why the West must engage Islamists

Three developments in the Middle East test America’s claim to be championing democracy in the Muslim world: The elections this month in Lebanon, the postponed parliamentary polls in the Palestinian

Another Crackdown in Egypt

 For quite some time I’ve been getting daily updates from a tiny little Cairo-based outfit called The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, sponsored by the Hisham Mubarak Law Center,

Anti-globalists reach out to Islamists

Cooperation between Islamists and the left is growing, reports Eric Walberg What is striking about this latest conference is the growing cooperation both within the Muslim world and between the

New faces, new politics

There is a rising generation of leftist and Islamist activists, reports Gamal Nkrumah The story of the Fifth Conference and Third Social Forum for Building an International Coalition of Resistance

’Our opponents are on the defensive’

John Rees tells Amira Howeidy why the anti-war coalition outlived that of the willing British Trotskyist John Rees has been a regular at the annual Cairo Anti-War Conference since it

Where Machiavelli errs

Egypt’s ruling party has seriously damaged individual and human rights protections in its constitutional amendments, but can it survive the tensions that will result as a consequence, asks

Amr Al-Chobaki Writes: From Washington

When I was invited by Georgetown University to present a research in a conference entitled " Trajectories of the Islamic Movements in the Arab world", I apologized in the beginning

4 Al Fayyum MBs Arrested Again

The State Security Police in Al Fayyum, west of Cairo, issued arrest warrants against four Muslim Brotherhood leaders, after Al Fayyum Criminal Court acquitted them along with other five others. The

Mursi: No Decision Yet on MB Shura Participation

Dr. Mohamed Mursi, a member of MB Executive Bureau denied that the Muslim Brotherhood completed the program of its political party that it announced months ago . In a statement to