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Will an “Islamic Reformation” Ever Come?

There’s been an interesting discussion in the blogosphere recently on “moderate Muslims” and the broader issue of whether there is or will be a “Muslim reformation” (see here, here, here,

LCHR Egypt Action Alert, Free Ayman Nour

When the world celebrates Human Rights Day on Monday, December 10, remembering the historic day in 1948 when the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of

Forgetting to remember

When the MCB leadership emerged from their meeting on Saturday with the news that they had decided to end their boycott of the Holocaust memorial day, I expected to hear

Thousands Real Estate Taxmen Stage Set-in before Egypt ’s Cabinet Building

Thousands of Egyptian real-estate taxmen staged a sit-in in Cairo and other Egyptian governorates, and they resumed their strike on Tuesday Dec, 3rd, 2007 demanding they be paid salaries like

25 Al-Azhar University Students Detained Wednesday Dawn

Egyptian security forces arrested on Wednesday dawn Dec, 5th, 2007, 25 students from the Faculty of Education, Al-Azhar University. Taken from their homes blindfolded, the students were sent by the

Rights Group Lash out at Security Intervention, Using Violence against Students in Egyptian Universi

Six human rights organizations have declared their rejection to the flagrant security intervention and use of violence against students who exercise student activities and express their opinions inside Egyptian universities,

Case of Al-Jazeera’s Howaida Taha Adjourned till Jan, 14th

Heliopolis Court of Appeals , Cairo , adjourned till Jan, 14th, 2008, hearing the lawsuit against Howaida Taha, a journalist in Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel, on charge of shooting videotapes about