Muslim woman defies male dominance

Amal Soliman, a 32-year-old Egyptian woman, has endured intimidation and ridicule in the year since she applied for a job as the Muslim world’s first mazouna, or female marriage registrar,

New DCI report: increased settler attacks against children

Today, Defence for Children International–Palestine Section (DCI/PS) released a report that documents the troubling extent of settler attacks perpetrated against Palestinian children in the Occupied Territory.

The Hijabi Monologues

I’m a member of a group called BuSSy, which aims to raise awareness of women’s issues in Egypt. Every year, we put on a play which we call “the Egyptian

Voices of the Street

By all indications, this year has been the spring, summer, fall and winter of discontent. Public frustration has been building over stagnating wages and rising prices, sexual harassment and reports

An Equal Stage

The intricacies of democracy are a mystery, at least for many of the country’s rural poor — and especially for the politically and economically disenfranchised women of the agricultural heartlands

Begging Your Pardon

Ibrahim Eissa remains a free man, if not exactly innocent in the eyes of the law. A presidential pardon issued October 6 meant the controversial editor in chief of independent

Shameless in London, obscene in Israel, stupid in Ramallah

The decision by the Buckingham palace to bestow an honorary knighthood on Israeli President Shimon Peres should be viewed as a blatant disregard for propriety and moral conduct by Queen

Rights Center Praises Court Ruling In Favor of Qarsaya Isle Residents

The National Assembly for Defending Rights and Freedoms paid tribute to the verdict issued by the Administrative Judicial Court in favor of the Qarsaya island residents. It said this verdict

Six MB Students Expelled From University

Cairo University’s Law School administration referred to investigations 14 Brotherhood students including two female students on Monday for organizing a show titled "Drawing a Heart" calling for the spread of

Bassam: Restricting Acquitted MB Leaders’ Movement a Political Decision

Dr. Amir Bassam, acquitted MB Professor of Medicine confirmed in statements to Ikhwanweb that the ban on movement imposed on other acquitted MB leaders from the latest military tribunal case