Freedom House report on Press freedom, released in advance of the World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd, indicated that setbacks in press freedom outnumbered advances 2 to 1 across

Egyptian opposition groups expressed excitement on Wednesday after the nation’s largest and most popular opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, threw its support behind a planned nationwide strike on 4 May.

Ismail Haneyya, the premier of the PA caretaker government, stated during his meeting Wednesday with patriach Michel Sabbah and a high-level church delegation that Muslims and Christians in Palestine are

Khirat al-Shater, second in command of the Muslim Brotherhood, has just been sentenced by a military tribunal to seven years in jail for belonging to a banned organisation and giving

Generation Facebook is the godchild of two important developments that took off over the past three years in Egypt - an increasingly bold blogging movement and street activism. And on

Prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi has denied any enmity between Muslims and Jews, asserting that Muslims are only opposed to the hostile, expansionist Zionist movement.

On April 8 municipal elections are scheduled to be held nationwide across Egypt, but they will hardly be a vote for the kind of democracy that America proclaims it supports

George W. Bush, who proposed the boldest peace initiative of any American president to solve the Palestine issue, managed to deliver only the most meager results during his two-term presidency.

Egyptian police detained independent monitors and barred rights groups from voting stations on Tuesday during local elections which generated little enthusiasm from Egyptians, the groups said.

An Egyptian blogger and journalist Abdel Moneim Mahmoud was stopped at Cairo Airport Thursday evening and prevented from travelling from to a conference on press freedom in Morocco.