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Justice Overturns Azhar Decisions Against MB Students

Egyptian Administrative Court overturned Al-Azhar University decisions of dismissing 32 students and denying them access to ..

Israel vs. Bush & the Neoconservatives on Syria?

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Damascus makes perfect sense as domestic US politics. The Democratic Party is developing its own foreign policy, different from that of Bush,

Promoting Diversity, Dialogue and Solidarity

The first Euro-Mediterranean Youth Parliament will bring together students from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Lebanon, Syria, the Palestinian Autonomous Territories - and Israel, among others. The young participants have now met

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