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Obama, Muslims & Islamism

Barack Obama responded to a student’s question in Istanbul in April 2009 with an interesting comment on the pace of political change.

Egypt warns over ex-IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei return

Egyptian security officials have warned against any large gatherings to welcome home former UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, reports say.

Egypt: Shake-Up in Human Rights Council

In a recent shake up in the Egyptian government’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR).

A Eurocentric Problem

In order to obscure Western Europe’s extensive debt to the Islamicate, they devalued the birth of new cultural formations in western Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, flowing from

Israel ‘had interest’ in assasination, dead man’s brother says

THE BROTHER of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, who died in Dubai in mysterious circumstances on January 20th, has said Israel “had an interest” in killing him.

Tanta Flax workers’ demo – no end in sight?

Workers launched a strike on 9 December after the dismissal of their local union head, Salah Mosallam

Why We Should Go and Welcome ElBaradei

Dr Elbaradei has suddenly appeared on the political scene in Egypt with his demand for democratic reform, winning the admiration and respect of Egyptians.

Egypt pressed to lift emergency laws

"The state of emergency, which has been in force since 1981, has had a negative impact on human rights," French ambassador Jean-Baptiste Mattei told the UN Human Rights Council during

Islam’s European Reformation?

Ramadan wrote What I Believe as “a work of clarification.” In it, he emphasizes that his goal is to fashion a distinctively “Western” expression of Islam that does not require