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Turkish Leadership

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered to mediate between the U.S. and Turkey. Others, including Patrick Barry and Ezra Klein, have written about the broader strategic implications. I want

Egypt Cyber Activists Receive Warnings to Close Down their YouTube, Flickr Accounts

Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas told Ikhwanweb Sunday that he received several warnings from YouTube administration that his account might be closed down because of a video of torturing a woman

Obama could change dynamics in the Arab world

Despising America has long been a Middle East pastime, but then the country that brought war to Iraq and orange-suited prisoners to Guantanamo Bay elected a Facebook-friendly president who speaks

Knesset MP calls for making lives of Gaza people insufferable

Gideon Ezra, a member of the Knesset for Kadima and a former minister of internal security, called on the Israeli government to tighten the noose on the Gaza Strip’s people

Khudari calls on Ban Ki-moon to visit Gaza

MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular committee against the siege, invited Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, to visit the Gaza Strip and assume his huamanitarian responsibilities towards one

5,000 participants in RoR conference in Damascus

Rihab Mikahal, the director of the international forum on the Palestinian refugees’ right of return, has announced that the inaugural session of the conference would be held in the Faiha

Extending Detention of MB Professor, Eight Media Figures

State Security Prosecution decided on Sunday to extend detention of professor of Hadith at Al- Azhar University Dr. Abdurrahman Abdul-Barr and other eight media figures for 15 days.

Police Office, Soldier Convicted For Killing Civilian

Misdemeanors Court of Tahta City in Suhag governorate decided on Sunday to imprison in absentia both Lieutenant Mohamed Sadawi and soldier Ahmad Abdul Aal for three years, with LE 2000

Free Title Deeds Program Ineffective, Says MP Abu El-Futouh

In his statements to Ikhwanweb, MP Sabir Abu EL-Futouh (workers’ rights activist) said that the government- proposed bill of state- run assets management through the free title deeds is ineffective.

For The First Time, Egyptian Security Intervenes In Private University Elections

Egyptian security services intervened for the first time in Student Union elections in Sinai Private University, as they removed the name of student Amr Salama, candidate for the student union