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ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine May 31, 2009

Gaylard: The Israeli siege thwarts UN efforts to help Gazans

NEW YORK, (PIC)-- UN humanitarian coordinator Maxwell Gaylard stated Thursday that the continued Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip hinders the efforts made by the UN and its partners to
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine May 31, 2009

Israel refuses to cooperate with UN investigators

GENEVA, (PIC)-- Israel has announced that it would not cooperate with the UN investigative team mandated by the UN human rights council last January to probe Israeli crimes in the
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine May 31, 2009

Russian paper: Moscow to ask Lieberman to end Gaza siege

MOSCOW, (PIC)-- Visiting Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman will hear demands by Russian officials for an end to the siege on Gaza in addition to halting settlement activity in the
ActivitesHuman Rights May 31, 2009

Ditching democracy in Egypt?

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s meeting yesterday with a group of young Egyptian activists at the State Department was a welcome and long-overdue development.
ActivitesHuman RightsPolitical Islam Studies May 31, 2009

Islam, Shari’ah Courts, Islamization and the Far-Right

The controversy sparked off by the Dutch MP Geert Wilders [1] being denied entry to the UK (he boarded a plane and landed in Heathrow only to be sent back),
ActivitesHuman RightsPolitical Islam Studies May 31, 2009

The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

Noah Feldman is one of the most prolific public intellectuals in the United States today. Fluent in Arabic, with a law degree from Yale and a D.Phil in Islamic thought
ActivitesHuman Rights May 31, 2009

How to Win a Cosmic War: An Interview with Reza Aslan

Reza Aslan is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University of California, Riverside and research associate at the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy. He is a member
ActivitesHuman RightsObama May 31, 2009

Obama Speech Puts Egypt On Center Stage

U.S. President Barack Obama travels to Egypt early June for what the White House is billing as a major address to Muslims around the world.
ActivitesOther Issues May 31, 2009

Critical Overtones Not Appreciated

The Syrian State not only influences the press, but is also increasingly trying to wield control over the Internet. One of the reasons is the regime’s fear of the growing
Islamic Issues May 31, 2009

The American Values of Islam

There is no other country in the Western world with as many Muslim converts as in the USA. Particularly for socially disadvantaged African-Americans, mosques are places of family values and