Canadian General Now Acknowledges Risk to Afghan Detainees

OTTAWA — Canada’s top soldier, in an unexpected contradiction of both the government’s position and his own testimony the previous day,

Afghans angry at Obama’s Nobel win

Barack Obama, the US president, has received the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo - days after he ordered an escalation of US involvement in the war in

Jewish terrorists torch West Bank Mosque, scrawl Nazi slogans

In what seems to signal an escalation of organized Jewish terror against Palestinians and their property, suspected Jewish terrorists on Friday torched a mosque in the northern West Bank .

US men in Pakistan ‘jihad quest’

Five US men have been questioned in Pakistan on suspicion of wanting to join a "holy war", officials said.

Dr. Ashraf “Our case is like an old Arabic Movie

Dr. Ashraf Abdel Ghaffar, Vice-Secretary-General of Egypt’s Doctors Syndicate and Rapporteur of the Human Relief Agency has lived a life full of research, learning, work and travel. The Security Services

Crackdown against Islamists could backfire

Egypt's latest crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most potent opposition group, in the run-up to 2010 parliamentary elections has raised fears the moderates who have dominated the secretive

Muhammad Abduh and the AKP in Dialogue at Wolf Hall: Book Reviews

A couple weeks ago TBE added a Reading Material tab to our masthead, but additions to it don’t show up in Google Reader and maybe other RSS readers, and the

Drop the knife: Stop FGM

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) usually involves the removal of the clitoris and other parts of female genitalia. It is considered by many people in Egypt as a necessary practice that

Egypt confirms 35th H1N1 death in country

Egypt’s health ministry on Wednesday confirmed two more H1N1, or Swine Flu, deaths in the country, raising the total to 35. The past two weeks has witnessed the worst outbreak

How to Emancipate Muslim States from the Plague of Autocracy and Despotism?

Till our present day, there are still some Islamic groups that consider democracy to be un-Islamic, and maintain the hatred of freedom as their tradition. They argue that 'there is