Fighting for Defense Dollars

Congressional Quarterly reports that after potentially having lost Republican support, Democrats in the House are scraping for votes for supplemental spending bill (H.R.2346) for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

More Chatter on Obama’s Speech

More chatter has come down the wire on President Obama’s speech at Cairo University this morning. The Daily Star reports that many Muslim leaders have been praising Obama’s speech. Randa

POMED Notes: “Ahmadinejad’s Uncertain Future” at the Carnegie Endowment

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace held a symposium on

Iran’s Presidential Debates: Ahmadinejad vs. Mousavi

The second, and most highly anticipated, of Iran’s presidential debates took place last night between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, the New York Times reports.

America Reacts to Obama’s Speech

Mark Lynch praised President Obama’s speech in Cairo today, calling it a triumph for public diplomacy that peacefully serves as an “invitation to conversation.”

Obama Delivers Speech to Muslim World in Cairo

At 6:10am EST, President Barack Obama delivered his highly anticipated speech to the Muslim world at Cairo University.

The 1967-war revisited

In June 1967, I was ten years old. I remember how we were told to raise the white flag when the Israeli army surrounded our small village, Khorsa, 15 kilometres

The Egyptian government paves the way for Further restrictions imposed on the Civil Society

However, the Ministry is showing evident signs of carefree attitude reflected by a full blackout about the draft law proposed by NGOs and the announcement that a committee was established

MB: Obama’s Speech For Improvement of America’s Image, Offers No New To the Islamic World

In their statement on Saturday, the MB emphasized that if the American-led campaign against Muslims didn’t stop tension would continue and rise, resistance would increase and strengthen, and the instability