EU lawmakers vow not to yield to Egyptian pressure

Senior European Union lawmakers vowed Thursday not to cave in to Egyptian pressure to vote down a resolution criticising Cairo for its human rights record.

50 people, including journalists, arrested before Kefaya protest begins

Around 50 people were arrested Thursday before a Kefaya-organized protest against the abolition of ration cards began in downtown Cairo.

Egypt summons EU envoys

European Union politicians have adopted a resolution criticising Egypt’s human rights record, as Cairo threatened to sever ties with the assembly and summoned EU ambassadors to complain.

PRC commander, wife killed in IOF aerial strike on Gaza

An Israeli reconnaissance plane has killed on Thursday a commander of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and his wife in Biet Lahia city, north of Gaza Strip, raising number of

Egyptian Public Opinion Denounces Bush’s Egypt Stop

US President George Bush arrived in Egypt on Wednesday Jan, 16th, 2008 in the last stop of his Middle East tour that. Although the meeting between both Egyptian and US

The Challenge of Democracy

A process of change and experimentation is unfolding in the political and social landscape of the Middle East The modern Muslim political experience has been one of kings, military, and

Islam and democracy in Southeast Asia

From Dec. 10 to 12, 44 sisters and brothers from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia gathered at the historic Manila Hotel for the First South East Asian Forum on Islam

Moderate Muslims in Southeast Asia organize to show true Islam to the world

This is the message of Southeast Asian Muslim moderates to the rest of the world who, stricken with fear of terrorism, may harbor biases against Islam. The moderate Muslims of

MB Secretary General: Alleged MB Plan to Islamize US Preposterous

Following news stories about the dismissal of Pentagon specialist on Islamist extremism Stephen Coughlin, the Muslim Brotherhood denied any covert plans whatsoever to “subvert” or “Islamize” the United States as

Why U.S. strategy on Iran is crumbling

’Everywhere you turn, it is the policy of Iran to foment instability and chaos," Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned Gulf dignitaries in Bahrain last month. But in reality, everywhere you