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ActivitesArtsDemocracyHuman Rights December 13, 2009

Belarusian Cartoons at Cairo Human Rights Film Fest

Pavel Yahoravich Marozau is a Belarusian activist that has been involved in the politics and diaspora community for the last 5 years.
DemocracyHuman Rights December 13, 2009

Freedom of Religion versus Content of Religion: Canada Joins Debate

In the past few years, issues surrounding the niqab have escalated.
DemocracyHuman RightsOther Issues December 13, 2009

Fervor and Film: 2nd Annual Human Rights Film Fest

The 2009 Cairo Human Rights Film Festival commences next week with screenings from December 20 through the 23.
DemocracyHuman RightsPrisoners of Conscience December 13, 2009

Wife of Egyptian Sinai activist speaks out

The wife of detained Sinai activist Musaad Abu Fagr, Shaimaa, spoke out on Wednesday in a posting on Amnesty International’s website, saying that since her husband’s arrest in February, 2008,
DevelopmentHuman Rights December 13, 2009

Nile Basin Initiative celebrates 10 years with stalemate

The Nile Basin Initiative looks to a third meeting of ministers this year to end an ongoing dispute with Cairo over water sharing, but as they celebrate a decade of
Other Issues December 13, 2009

Genetically Modified food: yes or no?

The field is pristine with rows of plants line the paths as Gamal Mahmoud Sayyid rummages through the dirt. He lifts of pile of brown soil in his hand
ObamaReform Issues December 13, 2009

World wants more cooperative governments

As the European Union begins to implement a new treaty aimed at assisting member nations to work together, and as American President Barack Obama is to receive a Nobel Prize
DemocracyHuman RightsMB News December 13, 2009

State Security’s rampage result in arrests and confiscations of personal belongings.

MP Hesham Alady condemned the insistence of the ruling regime's detentions of innocent members of society.
DemocracyHuman RightsIslamic IssuesWomen December 13, 2009

Egypt’s Islamic intellectuals condemn French Justice Minister over veil comments

Egyptian Islamic thinkers have condemned French Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie over comments she said on a recent television interview.
MB and WestMB in Arabian press December 13, 2009

Book review: Alastair Crooke’s “Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution”

The title of Alastair Crooke's book Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution may easily invoke the late Palestinian thinker Edward Said's critiques of trying to essentialize Islam.