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AIC to Shed Light on MB Military Tribunal

The American Islamic Congress (AIC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to building interfaith and interethnic understanding. The organization grew out of the ashes of September 11. It believes American Muslims

Nour Al Sherif Praises Muslim Brotherhood, Lashes out at Ruling NDP

In an interview with the Egyptian weekly newspaper Al-Nabaa, Egyptian famous actor, Nour Al Sherif, said that he admires the Muslim Brotherhood group.

Egypt’s media defy Mubarak at their peril

After briefly allowing more freedom, regime has reverted to jailing, harassing its critics

Understanding the Retributive Impulse

He went on to talk about the retributive impulse that had defined the post-9/11 American “psyche;” how we, too, have acted irrationally and done things that have not only failed

Nestor: Western Governments Don’t Back Trials against MB Leaders

Bruce Nestor, the president of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), has recently visited the Egyptian capital Cairo to monitor the military tribunal against top Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders, topped by

One full Year Behind Bars

For a full year, we have been unjustly thrown behind bars. Thirty three Egyptian businessmen, scientists, university professors and professionals who have exerted their utmost effort to develop and improve

The Un-American Way of Torture

American citizens must face the fact that torture is happening ‘in their names’ and by their country - despite George Bush’s denials, says Mona Eltahawy.

Egypt Reflections

Many of the younger guys, about 22 or 23, generally refused to talk seriously about the political situation. They said it was a pointless, albeit frustrating conversation, and they would

Some election, some democracy!

THERE are some things I never seem to figure. What, for instance, the UK authorities are still trying to prove or disprove, a decade after the death of Princess Diana

Have Egyptians Come to Hate Themselves?

An Arab intellectual posed the question to a number of Egyptians, after all of them had spent time discussing about the situation in the country, the language of violence that