12/14/07 "ich" -- -- -- Fascist! A word that is thrown around all too commonly in today’s political debates and partisan quibbling that is common among the cable “news networks.”

Reports from Pakistan seem to confirm what some of us have known all along. Military ruler General Pervez Musharraf has already fixed the elections scheduled for January 8 and that

Egyptian army weighs in on disputed Nile island By Jonathan Wright

Just because the collapse is planned doesn’t mean that it can’t be resisted. In resistance, perhaps we can hone-off the roughest edges of the unfolding transformation. The argument made, that

A memo in solidarity with detained blogger Ahmed Mohsen. Bloggers launch a campaign on weblogs calling for releasing him "It’s natural to be sent to prison in a country whose

Khalid Mashaal, Hamas Movement’s politburo chief, said that his ongoing visits to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Qatar are a part of a series of visits that will include

As the political conflict between President Hosni Mubarak’s secular government and its arch rival, the Muslim Brotherhood, goes on to dominate politics in Egypt, there is more interest than ever

Amidst all this clamor in our region regarding elections, democracy and the issues that surround it, which we hear about almost everywhere in the Arab and Islamic worlds, from the

While the urgency of ‘responding’ to Islamic fundamentalism has been consistently highlighted, very little has been said about Christian, Jewish or other fundamentalisms. The relationship between Christian fundamentalism and the

Despite passing considerable economic and social reforms Arab regimes continue to avoid substantive political reforms that would jeopardize their own power. Reformers in ruling establishments recognize the need for change