Continued detention of bloggers shows disregard for law in Egypt

Their arrests coincide with the ongoing crackdowns against Muslim Brotherhood reformists. In late June, leading MB figure Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Futouh, a member of the Executive Bureau, was detained

Profile: Dr. Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh

Stability cannot be achieved by depriving social and political leaders of civil justice. Nor can it be achieved by resisting democracy and excluding the largest political force in the country

Arab Human Development Report 2009

Dr. Homoud also maintains as touched by the report that unless and if the historical misgivings are not offset there cannot be a long term concrete realization of ‘Human development’

Security prevents solidarity with Aboul Fotouh

These actions caused traffic disruptions because of the security congestion, roadblocks and a large amount of cement blocks that had been established on the edges of the surrounding streets leading

New MB victim of torture by the SSI

The family used to visit Maher weekly until they found out on the third visit that he suffers from acute headaches to the point of tears due to weak analgesics

Underhanded decision to shut down Cairo-based Union of Arab Doctors.

A well-informed source in the Arab Doctors Union in Cairo revealed that there is tight security restrictions now arranged to prevent the Union from exercising its humanitarian role which threatened

If Only the Uighurs Were Buddhist and China Was Israel

Pity the Uighurs -- the wrong kind of minority, the wrong kind of Muslims, fighting the wrong kind of enemy.

The system’s challengers

Representations of the Middle East as changeless, frozen-in-time and regressive have crowded mainstream Western media for years owing to the region’s high frequency of despotism and religious fundamentalism. But the

IN FOCUS: Mubarak Regime and Brotherhood: Zero-Sum Game

The Egyptian regime has succeeded in scaring the society from and neutralizing it regarding the Muslim Brotherhood. But at the same time it did not succeed in eradicating the Brotherhood

Challenges to Human Security in Arab Countries

David Yang, coordinator of the UNDP Washington Roundtable invites Digest readers to check out next week’s special session of the UNDP Washington Roundtable: the U.S. launch of the Arab Human