Interview with Writer of the US Advice to MB

Marc Lynch, Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington university in the US capital, wrote in the last issue of the periodical "Foreign Policy"- issue of September and October-

The real question

President Hosni Mubarak and the regime have failed, for a while now, to answer a straight-forward question that democracy activists, human rights organizations, journalists and political activists have been marveling

Egyptian Security Denies Military Court Detainee Treatment

In a serious development to the health of Hassan Zalat, one of the forty Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders transferred to the military court, the seventh court against the MB in

Amnesty says Jailed Egypt Islamist leader in poor health

A jailed Egyptian Islamist who is third in command of the Muslim Brotherhood suffers from "serious health conditions" and urgently needs medical treatment, the human rights group Amnesty International said

News Concerning Middle East Reform

his is the news section of the latest issue of Arab Reform Bulletin (July 2007) Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:

A Frustrated ’Democracy Agenda’

The story of how President Bush’s State of the Union pledge to spread democracy went off the rails is a classic tale of politics, inertia, rivalries and funding battles.

Video: An Arab Perspective On U.S. Foreign Policy

Hafiz Al-Mirazi is an Egyptian journalist who until recently was the Washington bureau chief of the Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera.

Blogging for democracy around the world

Antony Loewenstein is a Sydney-based freelance journalist, author and blogger. He is currently writing a book on “Democracy and Blogging” and recently traveled to Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia

Brotherhood detainees denied medical treatment in prison

Muslim Brotherhood detainees Mohamed Hussein and Khayrat El Shater have both developed serious and possibly life-threatening illnesses in prison, according to Brotherhood sources and family members.

Toward a Global anti-censorship Network

uring the last six months, since the launch of Global Voices Advocacy, we have been trying to cover the increasingly serious threats to online speech occurring around the globe and