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Revolution, Facebook-Style

By organizing online, the April 6 movement avoids some of the pitfalls of party politics in Egypt — censorship, bureaucracy, compromise with the regime. But whenever the movement’s members try

Is political Islam a threat to the west?

To be fair, the side arguing against the motion did not articulate the complex variety of "political Islam" either. Instead, they spent an inordinate amount of time on Egypt’s Muslim

Syrian Muslim Brotherhood demands Turkish mediation

Its leadership, since 1982 in exile, the Brotherhood issued a statement during the Gaza attacks and declared they "freeze all opposition to Syrian government temporalily to cooperate against Israel".

Resilient Arab regimes deaf to Obama’s words

Even the anti-Western al-Quds al-Arabi felt obliged to make conciliatory noises, moderating its traditional anti-democratic positions. “A new era begins in the US today, an era which proves that Western

Egypt’s intelligence blackmails wounded Palestinians to tell about Hamas

The Al-Jazeera net news website on the internet quoted a number of those wounded Palestinians as affirming that elements of the Egyptian security interrogated them in very harsh manner, and