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The Obama doctrine? Let’s see what he says to Mubarak

On Thursday Barack Obama is set to deliver a much-anticipated speech from Cairo in which he will reportedly discuss democracy and human rights. These two traits, of course, are in

Foreshadowing the Egypt Speech

Scott Carpenter of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy published a new PolicyWatch which foreshadows President Obama’s upcoming speech in Egypt.

Groups Lobby President Ahead of Speech

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) released an open letter to “President Obama and the Muslim World” today

Obama in Egypt: Realism at What Cost?

In this past weekend’s New York Times, James Traub writes about the ideological tightrope President Obama must walk in his upcoming speech to the Muslim world in Cairo on Thursday.

HADAS Political Bureau Resigns

In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, the sources stressed that the Political Bureau has resigned and is waiting the decision, as it took this move in order to lift the

Carpenter and Wittes: Cook Wrong on Democracy Funding in Egypt

Writing on the Middle East Strategy at Harvard blog, Scott Carpenter and Tamara Cofman Wittes take umbrage at Steven Cook’s suggestion that democracy and good governance programs in Egypt are

‘Obama Doctrine’ to be unveiled in Cairo?

On Thursday, President Obama will address Middle Eastern audiences in a much anticipated speech at Cairo University. President Obama is expected to unveil his Administration’s foreign policy approach for the

Hamas hopes UN fact-finding mission would end in trial of Israeli war criminals

GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas on Monday welcomed the arrival of the UN independent fact-finding mission into Israeli war crimes committed during the latest Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

Anti-siege gov’t committee: Many Gaza water wells will stop due to the blockade

GAZA, (PIC)-- The government committee for breaking the siege on Monday warned that a large number of water wells in the Gaza Strip stopped operating due to the Israeli siege

Shedding our own blood to please Israel

The unnecessary death of six Palestinians, including two resistance fighters, by Palestinian hands in Qalqilya on Sunday, 31 May, will be an indelible and everlasting stigma of shame on the