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Reforms From Within?

The governing National Democratic Party’s (NDP) ninth annual conference in early November saw top party officials meet with members from all over the country to discuss policy, focusing on three

Syria: first lawsuit against withholding a website postponed

Administrative Judiciary Court in Damascus decided to postpone the lawsuit filed by administrators of the website "http://www.alnazaha.org" against Syrian Minister of Communications and Technical "Amr Salem," to bound him to

It’s the only language the government understands

I gave a training session in the morning to a group of local and Arab human rights activists on internet campaigns, part of a workshop organized by HRINFO, then had

To Die With The Philistines?

For an occupier, Gaza has always been problematic. The Israeli army has left it three times already, and each time the joy was great. It is no accident that both

How Al Jazeera Helped Create a Middle East Mainstream Media

A decade ago, there were only government-controlled media outlets for television and radio in the Arab world. Now, there are hundreds of viewpoints streaming into - and on talk shows,

Bush’s Global War on Terror in Egypt

Negar Azimi offers insight on the real repercussions of George Bush’s perpetual war-as-foreign policy in Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt.

Rights Report: Egypt Detained 3245 MBs, Referred 107 to SSSP in 2007

A human rights report confirmed that some 3245 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members have been detained in Egypt in 2007, including 2204 placed in a provisional detention, 613 detainees and 428

Understanding the Muslim Brothers in Egypt

The horrific events of September 11, 2001, and the resulting confrontations between Western countries, primarily the United States, and a variety of Islamic forces have raised thefollowing question: What should

We corrupt in Paris. We murder in Gaza

Lebanon entered the stage of the 9th delay of the presidential elections after the failure of the parliament to modify the constitution. The country enters a new stage of waiting

The Neoconservative Agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet – The New Pearl Harbor

The U.S. plans for an attack on Iran envision to sacrifice the Fifth Fleet in order to justify a nuclear retaliation. This is not a hypothetical scenario, but a real