Mass protests in Egypt fail to live up to the hype

Activists from various political groups and social movements demonstrated throughout Egypt on Monday (April 6) - highlighting what they say are failed economic and social policies of President Hosni Mubarak.

April 6 – Where Do We Go from Here?

The Associated Press has all but declared today’s much anticipated April 6 Youth Movement general strike a failure

Egyptian Police Arrest Peaceful Protesters

Egyptian police arrested at least 40 people for encouraging or participating in a nationwide strike on April 6. The strike was titled "The Day of Anger in Egypt." Participants in

Obama’s on-target message to Muslims

Barack Obama’s message to Muslims during his Turkey visit is not the final word, the White House keeps saying. Watch for more outreach, including a major speech soon in a

More on Egypt’s April 6 Protest

Monday’s nationwide student-led protests and strike in Egypt turned out to be rather muted, as we mentioned earlier this week. Writing in Al-Ahram, Hossam Tammam accuses the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood,

Lawyer To File Report Against Torture of Ain Shams Students

Gamal Tagiddeen, lawyer of the students Ahmed Abdel-Mon’em Abul-Futuh and Mansur Naser, will be filing a report to the Attorney General today, Wednesday, April 8, 2009 against the Nasr City

Doctors To Go on Strike Today, April 9

The Doctors Syndicate resumed its preparation for the strike endorsed by the General Assembly on March 27, 2009 by closing all private clinics on April 9 in protest against the

Arab League charges Israel with trying to conceal its crimes in Gaza

The Arab League on Thursday issued a statement on the 61st anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre charging that Israel was trying to conceal its crimes in the Gaza Strip

Report: 1,600 Palestinian patients in Israeli jails

The Palestinian center for the defense of prisoners reported Tuesday that the number of Palestinian patients imprisoned in Israeli jails amounted to 1,600 prisoners, 16 of them suffer from cancer,

Police officer assaults, breaks into blogger’s home

Blogger Wael Abbas and his mother have been assaulted in their house by a police major and his brother. Wael said over the phone he had one of his teeth