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15 days detention for nine MB’s from Sharquia

The Zagazig prosecution renewed the detention of nine Muslim Brotherhood members from Al-Sharqia Governorate for a further fifteen days on charges of belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. The Zagazig

Palestinian MPs: Netanyahu’s conditions prove futility of PA-Israeli negotiation

Palestinian lawmaker Ibrahim Abu Salem of Hamas’s parliamentary bloc in the Palestinian legislature has derided the conditions put forward by Israeli premier Binyamin Netanyahu to make "peace" with the Palestinians.

Zaidan: The world should move against Israel’s measures in Jerusalem

Palestinian lawmaker and former minister Abdul Rahman Zaidan has called on the Arab and Muslim worlds as well as the international community to take decisive measures against the heinous Israeli

Challenges to Human Security in Arab Countries

David Yang, coordinator of the UNDP Washington Roundtable invites Digest readers to check out next week’s special session of the UNDP Washington Roundtable: the U.S. launch of the Arab Human

IN FOCUS: Mubarak Regime and Brotherhood: Zero-Sum Game

The Egyptian regime has succeeded in scaring the society from and neutralizing it regarding the Muslim Brotherhood. But at the same time it did not succeed in eradicating the Brotherhood

The system’s challengers

Representations of the Middle East as changeless, frozen-in-time and regressive have crowded mainstream Western media for years owing to the region’s high frequency of despotism and religious fundamentalism. But the

If Only the Uighurs Were Buddhist and China Was Israel

Pity the Uighurs -- the wrong kind of minority, the wrong kind of Muslims, fighting the wrong kind of enemy.

Bloggers held in Egypt without charge

Islamist blogger Abdel Rahman Ayyash, who writes for Al-Ghareeb (The Stranger), was arrested at the Cairo airport on Tuesday on his return from Turkey where he attended a youth conference,

Document – Egypt: Government should immediately release Musaad Abu Fagr and Karim Amer

Amnesty International is calling on President Hosni Mubarak to order the immediate and unconditional release of Musaad Abu Fagr and Karim Amer, prisoners of conscience who have both been held

BM News: Brotherhood to start campaign if bloggers not released

Egypt’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood told Bikya Masr on Friday that if the three bloggers arrested by Egyptian security forces on Wednesday are not released Friday, the Islamic group plans to