Former Egyptian Foreign Minister, Ahmad Maher, indirectly criticized comments made by his successor, Ahmad Abu al-Ghait, who criticized the Palestinian resistance and doubted its effectiveness. "I find myself unable to

After the Israeli supreme court authorized it to reduce electricity and fuel supplies to Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation government decided to start the reduction of the supplies on Thursday,

The Hamas Movement strongly denounced some Arab officials for exploiting the suffering of the Palestinian people especially the opening of the Rafah crossing for the achievement of political aims.

Israeli reconnaissance planes have killed at dawn Thursday seven Palestinians including six resistance fighters from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in aerial attacks on their advanced positions in northern Gaza

Last week, during discussion with a fairly senior Egyptian journalist, I was told that the Egyptian Ministry of Information had just finished a preparing a new "code of ethics" in

A question about alternative media in Cairo would probably prompt someone, say a university educated but underemployed 20-something in a cafe (too many fit the profile), to talk at length

The European Union should not shun "Muslim Democratic" parties in the Mediterranean Arab states, but engage with them to promote good governance and development of civil society, recommends a prestigious

Freedom is on the march. Backward. "Global Freedom in Retreat," headlines a recent press release from Freedom House. In 2007, for the second consecutive year, the group’s annual survey of

Granted, this is anecdotal, but still. A friend was telling me that one of her Dutch friends, after watching the Obama South Carolina victory speech, said "I was listening to

Gordon Brown’s government has finally caved in to the noisy mob who have been angrily demanding that the elderly Islamic preacher, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, should be refused a visa to come