Too racy for Ramadan

Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, is a time for fasting, prayer and contemplation as well as elaborate evening meals and family get-togethers.

Democracy halted in Arab World, says Gulf debating forum

An audience of 350 people from throughout the Middle East, attending the first of a new series of Doha Debates, voted 64% in favour of a motion stating that ’progress

Explaining 20 years of Al-Qaeda

It was almost exactly 20 years ago this month that Al-Qaeda was born in Afghanistan as a movement of zealous holy warriors that was prepared to fight and die to

Journalists Held Inside Al-Mansoura University, One Assaulted By University President

Many journalists and independent newspapers reporters in the Nile Delta governorate of Dakahliyya have sit in before the Office of the President of Al-Mansoura University on Monday September 15, demanding

Call for Lifting MP’s Immunity Reveals Blatant Despotism, Ignorance: MPs Media Spokesman

Media Spokesman of The Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary Bloc Dr. Hamdi Hassan stated to Ikhwanweb that the request to lift the parliamentary immunity of the MB Member of Parliament Hamdi Zahran

Tortured Ex-Colonel Case: Postponing Trial of Two Officers and Two Detectives

Al Ismailyya Criminal Court adjourned to November the trial of two police officers and two detectives at Al Ismailyya (second) police station, after accusing them of torturing the citizen Adel

Hisham Mubarak Law Center Calls for New Labor Union Law

Hisham Mubarak Law Center Called for amending the legislation on Labor Unions no. 35 of 1976. Workers movement has repeatedly called for amending the law.

Residents of Al-Doweeqa Organize Open Sit-in before Cairo Governor Office

Scores of Al-Duweqa’s victims of the rockslide, including ladies and kids, have organized an open sit-in before Cairo’s governor office on Sunday in protest against the government’s dereliction of providing

Let’s not talk about Saudi Arabia

It’s been 7 years since 9/11 and, yet, it’s really quite remarkable how we have done very little to recast our relationship with Saudi Arabia. I bring this up because

What “Should” We Do or Should We Do Anything At All?

Yesterday, Abu Aardvark posted on a talk on “democracy in Egypt” he gave at a POMED hosted seminar. The seminar seeemed to be focused on the general