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Al Qaeda hijacking the Palestinian cause

Anthony Lowstedt has been described as the leading Swedish researcher of Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He currently teaches and researches at Webster University in Vienna and just finished the 4th edition of

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark denounces Brotherhood trial

Ramsey Clark, the former attorney general of the United States, is visiting Cairo this week to denounce the military trial of Khayrat El Shater and 39 other leaders of the

Egypt president’s son Gamal edges towards power

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has left open the question of his successor even as his son Gamal’s progress towards inheriting power edged forward at the ruling party’s national congress.

Terrible week for the Democrats and consequentially the world

This week the committee let Mukasey pass even though he doesn’t have the decency to admit that waterboarding is torture, and they got the impeachment of Cheney

Support For Democracy Must Be Consistent

I don’t think many Americans would argue that the answer for the sometimes lethargic elected Karzai government in Afghanistan should be a coup by a Pashtun warlord and his battle-hardened

Egyptian media mogul defends hijab comment

9 Egyptian billionaire and media mogul Naguib Sawiris countered criticism he launched TV channels to oppose the wearing of traditional garb linked to Iran.

Upcoming Events

I know I already announced these once, but here are some upcoming events for this week.

A textbook case in press censorship for the past 20 years

In the run-up to 20th anniversary of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali’s takeover as president on 7 November, the pro-government newspapers, which constitute most of the Tunisian press,

Al Fayyum State Security Storm Bookstores, Detain Worker

State Security forces raided on Tuesday evening, Nov, 6th, 2007, Islam&AlJazeera bookstores. The forces raided the bookstores one after another and they remained in one

Interview: Former US Ambassador to Ethiopia, David Shinn

A must to read interview by Jimma Times. It spoke to former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia Dr. David H. Shinn.