Khairat Al Shater inherited from his father trade and a farming land and he traveled abroad to increase his wealth; he whenever he started a project, the government closed and

Mauritania wrapped up on Friday evening the election campaigns after two weeks of strong competition and hot debates between 19 presidential candidates, 11 from them are independents, and eight candidates

The novel "The Yacoubian Building" by Alaa al-Aswani was published five years ago by a small Egyptian publishing house. The book has since been translated into many languages and won

The temperature of Egypt’s cool peace with one-time adversary Israel appeared to be heading towards record lows this week, amid allegations that the Israeli military executed Egyptian prisoners of war

In a report handed over to the United Nations Human Rights Council, John Dugard draws up a detailed balance sheet of Human Rights conditions in the Palestinian territories. The famous

Abdel Kareem Nabil, the 22-year-old Egyptian blogger sentenced to three years in jail for insulting Islam and an additional year behind bars for insulting President Hosni Mubarak, was not born

The Mubarak regime is heading for a succession crisis. By trying to strangle Egypt’s Islamists, it has strengthened them  In front of the towering golden sandstone entrance to the temple

The head of the very same Court imprisoned blogger Kareem Soliman will be appealing to next week is launching a lawsuit to get 21 blogs and websites blocked in Egypt.

The statistics made headlines all over the world when they were published in The Lancet in October last year. More than 650,000 Iraqis – one in 40 of the population

As President George Bush’s State of the Union address and Secretary Condoleezza Rice’s recent Middle East trips showed, the Bush administration has shifted its public rhetoric back from the democrats-