Audit of USAID Democracy Programs in Egypt

Last week, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a comprehensive new report entitled, “Audit of USAID/Egypt’s Democracy and Governance Activities,” which evaluates the effectiveness of USAID’s democracy and governance

A reading in Gilad Shalit’s Video

Since the airing of Gilad Shalit’s video people have been wondering about how well he looked for someone who's been in captivity for over three years.

Egypt: Ruling party conference ends with Brotherhood attacks

The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) ended its 6th annual three-day conference in Cairo on Monday, with a series of bashings at the Muslim Brotherhood. The conference, which had run

Farwana: 350 Jerusalemites detained in IOA in jails without any rights

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) is detaining 350 Jerusalemites in its jails including four females without according them any rights, Abdul Nasser Farwana, an expert in prisoners affairs, said.

Egypt : WGAD informed of successive waves of arbitrary arrests and detentions of Muslim Brotherhood

In the past 3 months, the Egyptian government has carried out successive mass arrests of leading members of the countries largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, including Dr Ashraff Abdel

The detention of 10 Engineer Students from Helwan.

Prosecutors decided today to detain 10 Muslim Brotherhood students from the Faculty of Engineering from Helwan University. The students were charged with the same accusations in which the movement's members

Robert Fisk’s World: The truth about the Middle East is buried beneath the headlines

Amira Hass was spot on when she said last week that her lifetime women's award was an award for failure. The West Bank correspondent of the Israeli paper Haaretz eloquently

Egypt’s dynastic succession contested, as Muslim Brotherhood fractures

Will Gamal Mubarak succeed his father as Egypt’s next president? Is the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s leading opposition force, about to split? Should liberal and democratic forces align themselves with

Egypt’s MB and their money: where does it come from?

CAIRO: Don’t ask, don’t tell. This is the unspoken policy of the Muslim Brotherhood in terms of where their money comes from. The reason is simple, the Egyptian government has

Kifaya: Mubarak sacked Mansour to give a warning message to his son; he is still

Dr. Abdel-Halim Kandeel, the general coordinator of the Kefaya movement, said that Egypt's transport minister, Mohamed Lotfy Mansour, was forced to resign on Tuesday in a brief statement from the