Adrift on the Nile

Bruce Rutherford’s Egypt After Mubarak is an ambitious effort to explain how the Muslim Brotherhood, the judiciary, and the business sector can work in parallel, if not exactly together, to

Hamas’s popularity rises after Israel’s Gaza war

Hamas’s popularity among Palestinians has risen sharply since a three-week Israeli war in January devastated the Islamist-ruled Gaza Strip, an opinion poll released Monday showed.

Memo to Obama: don’t abandon Arab democrats

Several dozen scholars and experts, including Egyptian dissident Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Malaysia’s former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim -are urging the Obama administration to support democracy in the Arab

Ahram Journalists Protest, Request Chair’s Leave

In his statement to Ikhwanweb, MP Mohsen Radi described the assault on journalists of the most popular Egyptian and Arab newspaper Al-Ahram at the hands of its workers as a

On Interference

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton returns from her travels to Europe and the Middle east, including Egypt it is worth wondering about the place of human rights in U.S.

Talking to the Taliban

Way back in September, 2001, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, there were few cool heads in the United States, a country bent on bloodthirsty revenge and intent on launching

Gaza Or Bust

The last 24 hours have probably been the blackest since the Viva Palestina convoy set off from London. Yesterday the convoy members became the target of an orchestrated wave of

“Two States”

THIS WEEK I had a nostalgic experience. I met a parliamentary delegation from one of the European countries. What turned this meeting into a special occasion for me was its

Expert: Obama’s Administration Prioritises settlement of Arab-Israeli Conflict

Shourbagy affirmed that Obama’s administration would not meet the demands of political reform because it came to power with a strategy plan for the Middle East with goals to achieve

End of Impunity or the Big Challenge

In a strong reaction to current actions to sue Israeli war criminals, Azmi Bishara wrote ideas around the crimes and the trial which are a part of the classic literature