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NDP Convention… Much Ado About Nothing

The Annual Convention of the National Democratic Party (NDP) which is scheduled to convene next Saturday November 1, 2008 seems to be different from previous conventions and has its results

IOF troops injure 7 participants in the Bilin anti-wall protest, assault MEP

The IOF troops injured on Friday afternoon seven participants in the weekly anti-wall demonstration held in the village of Bilin to the West of Ramallah.

Maguire: UN is responsible for every death resulting from the siege on Gaza

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who arrived in Gaza on SS Dignity a couple of days ago, held the United Nations responsible for deaths resulting from the siege

46 MB Students Investigated, Other Six Expelled

In continuation of the sufferings the Muslim Brotherhood affiliated students face at their universities, certain administrations of the Egyptian universities referred 39 MB students to investigations on the same silly

Who Will Speak for Islam?

The World Policy Journal’s 25th anniversary Fall issue is available free for the month of November. It includes an interesting article (pdf) by John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed titled “Who

Dueling Political Conventions in Egypt

On November 1-3, Egypt’s ruling NDP will hold its fifth annual convention, in which it is ostensibly supposed to review the past year and suggest policy prescriptions going forward. In

Mahalla Laborers Protest Against Neglected Wage Requests

Workers in the Egyptian Company for Spinning and Textile in Mahalla organized a half-hour long strike yesterday, Thursday, in front of the company’s administrative building in Tal’at Harb Square to