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Striking Mahalla workers demand govt fulfill broken promises

A crippling strike at Egypt’s largest public sector factory entered its fifth day on Thursday as workers, angry at corruption and what they call a string of lies and broken

Egypt’s NDP votes amid turmoil

Egypt is on the edge of its greatest political upheaval in a quarter century, and must foster genuine and inclusive civil, media, political and security reforms to prevent a potentially

Is Spreading Democracy in Middle East a Bad Idea?

Ever since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has said that one of its key rationales for overthrowing Saddam Hussein was that an Iraq with a freely chosen,

MB in Party Program…Wrong Doers or Wronged?

This background information makes me claim that the Muslim Brotherhood is wronged and is a wrong doer as much as the party program is concerned.

Three days on Islam slated for Middlebury

"Islam and Politics in a Globalizing World" is the topic of the 2007 Nicholas R. Clifford Symposium. College officials established the symposium in 1993 to honor the distinguished career of

Forsaking the Egyptian Free Press

The Egyptian publisher Hisham Kassem was in Washington last week to pick up the National Endowment for Democracy’s prestigious annual Democracy Award,

REVOLUTIONARY LESSONS:

compares two examinations of the Palestinian struggle.

News about disputes between Haniyah and Al-Zahhar movements…

Al Quds Al Arabi has learned from security sources in Hamas in the Gaza Strip yesterday that the movement’s security body increased its security measures to protect the leaders of

Talal Salman, editor in chief of As Safir, an independent leftist newspaper, wrote on September

"Never in the history of Lebanon was a president elected thanks only to pure Lebanese votes, whether these votes were controlled by political leaders or spiritual references, the most important

Six Years Later, Sheikh?

"Sheikh Salman al Ouda’s distancing himself from Bin Laden at a time when those absolving themselves of Al Qaeda’s leader have nothing to lose and no price to pay is