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Brotherhood delays debate

A group of young members within Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday postponed an online reform debate, exposing a rift with elders determined to avoid open confrontation with the state.

Fadwa: We have full confidence in Palestinians negotiating Shalit deal

Fadwa Al-Barghouthi, the wife of detained Fatah leader Marwan Al-Barghouthi, has stressed that she was fully confident of the skill of the Palestinian party negotiating the prisoners' swap deal, referring

Health ministry: 141 types of medicines and medical items out of stock

The department of pharmaceutics at the health ministry in the Gaza Strip has announced that a big number of medications and medical items were out of stock in its stores.

Barghouthi: Netanyau’s statement on temporary settlement freeze deceptive

MP Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, the secretary general of the national initiative party, has described the Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu's temporary settlement freeze as "malicious" and aimed at excluding Jerusalem from

Fort Hood and Swiss Minarets: The Existential Problem of Scorpions in a Bottle

Tom Friedman is quite right in his New York Times op-ed piece of November 29th where he exclaims to Muslims: “Whenever something like Fort Hood happens you say, ‘This is

“HE WAS THE BEST OF THE JEWS” SAID PROPHET MUHAMMED

There are many stories that contemporary Imams rarely tell their congregations. The story of Mukhayriq, a Rabbi from Medina is one such story

Egypt’s opposition misled by fixation with Mubarak’s son

Political opposition in Egypt has been stirred by a recent campaign against Gamal Mubarak, the son of the president Hosni Mubarak, becoming Egypt’s new president in 2011.

Foreign Policy: 2009’s Top Muslim Thinkers

The influential Foreign Policy magazine has issued a list of the "100 Top Global Thinkers," reserving ten places for Muslim professors, scholars, politicians, bankers and journalists.

Stormy Change

W hat is it with shifts in American foreign policy and the month of November? On the first Thursday of November 2003, the United States changed its foreign policy toward

Al-Qassam: History of an Icon of Resistance

This November, 2009, Arabs and Palestinians are commemorating Sheikh Izzedin Al-Qassam's 74th anniversary. This article sheds light on the life and history of one of the major icons of resistance