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Crackdowns On Bloggers Increasing, Survey Finds

"Countries that were not sentencing journalists to prison terms anymore have been doing it these last months for bloggers. This is the case in Egypt and Jordan," she said yesterday

Summary of seminar held at the House of Lords on human rights abuses and report

The House of Lords hosted a seminar organised by Justice International on 16/10/2007 around Egypt, in an attempt to shed light into the recent human rights abuses in the country.

Habib Admits Erros in Party’s Platform

Habib denied that this formation of the authority of clerics or Ulema Council is a copycatting of the Iranian model. We wanted this council to be formed from Al-Azhar or

Egypt Ranked 146 in 2007 International Freedom of Press

Commenting on this report, Abdul Halim Kandeel, a journalist facing a prison risk and editor-in-chief of Al-Karama newspaper, said that the political conditions in Egypt are so bad towards the

Outsourcing Torture

We are losing the war in Iraq. We are an isolated and reviled nation. We are pitiless to others weaker than ourselves. We have lost sight of our democratic ideals.

Egypt: Security, Political, and Islamist Challenges

This monograph approaches three issues in contemporary Egypt: failures of governance and political development, the continued strength of Islamism, and counterterrorism. The Egyptian government forged a truce with its most

Justice not equality

The mark of power is often presented in the form of the helping hand. Amid invasions and occupation, focus has fallen, too, on more subtle means of advancing the agendas

Al-Qaeda: Beginning of the End, or Grasping at Straws?

Since early September, there has been a flurry of media reports and commentaries suggesting that the Saudi religious establishment has turned against Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda; that a split

The Israel Lobby. Portrait of a Great Taboo

Tegenlicht, a documentary program by the Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO, allows several interesting opinion makers to speak on the future of the American and Israel relationship and the reception

Oil, Israel, and America: The Root Cause of the Crisis

There is no shortage of examples of historical points of friction between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States to draw upon in order to illustrate the genesis