Al Sameraie: Islamic Party Sets Conditions to Join any New Political Bloc Mr. Iyad Al Sameraie, the Iraqi member of parliament for Iraqi Accordance Front and Under-Secretary-General of the Iraqi Islamic

The way Farouk Hosni was attacked for his comments on the veil, you would think Cairenes were uniformly in favor of the hijab. We hit the capital’s streets for an

The banned-but-tolerated Muslim Brotherhoods (MB) group stated in a press conference Wednesday afternoon that they intended to establish a licensed political party. During the same event, MB members promised to

Yet again, the Bush administration looks stupid exactly when it thinks it is being smart, or when it thinks it is being strategic in its actions. Saddam Husayn was not

Today is World Press Freedom Day, which for students of the Arab media is a depressing day indeed.

"Blogger arrested for spreading malicious rumors", “Rights groups say government is limiting Internet freedom", and "Activists argue ’deteriorating state’ of civil society in Arab nations". Headlines like the above have

Socialist activists in Mahalla recorded three video clips of the 27,000-strong Textile workers strike at the beginning of the month, which ended

President Bush startled reporters when he acknowledged in a recent interview that we are "not winning" in Iraq, after long insisting we were. That doesn’t go far enough. Even as

The government of France announced early today that former US President George Walker Bush was executed for crimes against humanity, after all his legal appeals had been thoroughly exhausted. French liberation

How the West armed Saddam, fed him intelligence on his ’enemies’, equipped him for atrocities - and then made sure he wouldn’t squealBy Robert Fisk12/31/06 "The Independent" -- -- We’ve