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Muslims Anti Zionists Not Jews: Qaradawi

Prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi has denied any enmity between Muslims and Jews, asserting that Muslims are only opposed to the hostile, expansionist Zionist movement.

Generation Facebook

Generation Facebook is the godchild of two important developments that took off over the past three years in Egypt - an increasingly bold blogging movement and street activism. And on

Fears for jailed Brotherhood leader

Khirat al-Shater, second in command of the Muslim Brotherhood, has just been sentenced by a military tribunal to seven years in jail for belonging to a banned organisation and giving

Haneyya: Muslims and Christians are one people sharing the same pain

Ismail Haneyya, the premier of the PA caretaker government, stated during his meeting Wednesday with patriach Michel Sabbah and a high-level church delegation that Muslims and Christians in Palestine are

Brotherhood throws weight behind 4 May general strike in Egypt

Egyptian opposition groups expressed excitement on Wednesday after the nation’s largest and most popular opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, threw its support behind a planned nationwide strike on 4 May.

Freedom House: Relative Improvement in Press Freedom In the Middle East

Freedom House report on Press freedom, released in advance of the World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd, indicated that setbacks in press freedom outnumbered advances 2 to 1 across

Egypt: Facebooking the Struggle

After little less than a month following the April 6 strike in support of the textile workers in Mahalla City, during which a number of prominent Egyptian bloggers and internet

Muslim Brotherhood Blogger Abdel Monem Mahmoud Banned from Traveling to Morocco

Muslim Brotherhood journalist and blogger Abdelmoneim Mahmoud (Monem) was banned from traveling to Morocco on Thursday. He was invited to a conference on freedom of the press in Africa organized

Muzzled Egyptians turn to Facebook

Egyptians are using the online social networking tool Facebook to defy the government’s attempt to muzzle the media and hush reported incidents of police brutality during a strike by workers

Days of protest

The confrontation between Egyptian physicians and the government entered a new stage last week when, on 23 April, amid intense security, doctors staged peaceful protests at their syndicate headquarters in