No subject seems to generate more heated discussion these days than religion. And this is by no means confined to Comment is Free, where articles on God, atheism, secularism, evolution

The rise of the Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas — in the Palestinian Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza provided a challenge for Israel and the West

Egypt’s president hinted Tuesday his government would resist U.S. attempts to link military aid with alleged human rights abuses, saying the key American ally refuses "any interference in our affairs."

Israel says Egypt is doing far too little to stop the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, from smuggling weapons, militants and cash into the area from

I receive emails every now and then from Egyptians (and non-Egyptians) abroad who’ve been following with disgust the actions of Mubarak’s police against the citizens, and ask me what they

Doha • “Islamism” and “political Islam” are not monolithic ideas and they are as diverse as other contemporary trends in the Islamic world, says a prominent Muslim scholar and intellectual

In apress conference held on Tuesday, Nov,7th, 2007, prominent Egyptian businessman engineer Naguib Sawaris, the board director of Orascom Telecom, sharply criticized the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group .

A must to read interview by Jimma Times. It spoke to former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia Dr. David H. Shinn.

State Security forces raided on Tuesday evening, Nov, 6th, 2007, Islam&AlJazeera bookstores. The forces raided the bookstores one after another and they remained in one

In the run-up to 20th anniversary of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali’s takeover as president on 7 November, the pro-government newspapers, which constitute most of the Tunisian press,