The video-sharing Web site YouTube has suspended the account of a prominent Egyptian anti-torture activist who posted videos of what he said was brutal behaviour by some Egyptian policemen, the

"We had been waiting for an urgent referral to an outside hospital for the past six days, until he died today," said Dr. Ismail Yassin Monday, in response to the

For the last 20 years, the US government has accused me of being a terrorist. Along with six other Palestinians and a Kenyan, we were dubbed the "Los Angeles Eight"

Palestinian students’ right to education is hindered by Israel in many ways, including through closure: Palestinian students line up on the first day of the new school year in the

Almost every day, I think, talk, and read about Palestine. But it had been more than three years since my last trip and there are some things you can really

Egypt is one of the cradles of human civilisation. It has also become a cradle of Arab resistance to imperialism and oppression. As much as it has been a by

The 1919 revolution even brought children out on to the streets. The small town of Mahmudiyya 90 miles north west of Cairo was no exception. The 13 year old Hassan

The mass rioting triggered by the British Army’s attack on the Ismailiyyah Police station [January 25th 1952] , was a clarion call to the small group of Army officers who

The Hamas election victory in January of 2006 sent shockwaves through the Arab world — and through Islamists with varying convictions

"In its latest statement to the public opinion, the Syndicate of Journalists considered the sentences of imprisonment passed collectively against four editors in chief as a "declaration of war against