No rights, little mercy

Seventy-six-year-old Mustapha al-Jamal goes door to door, looking for help in finding medicines for his son. At home, the 53-year-old son Yahya al-Jamal lies back, staring at the ceiling. By

Italians awaken to Palestinian pain

Several Italian civil society groups will mark the World Social Forum’s global day of action Saturday by pledging support for Palestinians

The Islamist opposition online in Egypt and Jordan

An October report from Reporters without Borders indicates that the level of media freedom in both Egypt and Jordan has deteriorated over the past year following the jailing of several

view: Egypt or Turkey?

Turkey is doing things it hasn’t done in fifty years. In 2001, the Turkish Parliament amended 34 articles of the Constitution granting and protecting civil and political rights; cementing ‘institutions

Egyptian MPs visit Gaza, Bahraini Mps call for lifting the siege

Dr. Ahmad Bahar, acting speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) received on Thursday a delegation of Egyptian MPs representatives of the Karama Party headed by Hamdain Sabah, the party’s

UN Human Rights Council calls for immediate lifting of Gaza Siege

The United Nations Human Rights Council Thursday expressed its grave concern at Israel’s repeated military attacks carried out in the Palestinian territories, particularly in Gaza, which resulted in loss of

UN: Gazans are getting poorer because of the suffocating siege

Maxwell Gaylard, the UN humanitarian coordinator in the occupied Palestinian lands, stated that the Palestinians in the impoverished Gaza Strip are getting poorer and their crises are deteriorating because of

IOF blocks entry of shipment of medicine to Gaza

The IOF troops besieging the Gaza Strip have refused to allow the entry of a shipment of medicine and other medical supplies, collected by1948 Arabs, into the Strip.

Mubarak under pressure

It has been an uncomfortable few days for President Husni Mubarak, watching anxiously as the crisis in Gaza spilled over onto his territory, focusing intense and unwelcome attention - both

MB Military Trial Adjourned till Sunday Jan, 27th, Defense Pleading Resumed

The military tribunal trying forty Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders topped by Executive office members Khairat Al-Shater and Mohamed Ali Besher,