The American and European support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ ultimatum/threat to the governing Hamas party -- calling a "national referendum" -- is destructive of Palestinian democracy and Palestinian-Israeli relations

In a similar scenario to the November’s parliamentary elections, police forces sealed off downtown Alexandria and prevented voters from casting their ballots in the local Chamber of Commerce elections in which

Democracy is a government of we the rulers, for we the rulers and of course by we the rulers (shush! who are you to ask by whom?). This is what

The Libyan Muslim Brotherhood refuses foreign intervention even under the umbrella of reform and human rights. It is time to deal with internal reform demands with the same interest and

Mr. Mohamed Mahdi Akef, Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, offered his deepest condolences to the victims of the devastating earthquake that hit Indonesia on Saturday killing more than 3500 and

Listen to an interview with Gamal Nkrumah, well-known journalist, political commentator & editor of the international section of the Egyptian English news paper Al-Ahram. audio: MP3 at 12.8 mebibytes   

Every sector of Egyptian society is struggling with the government to stop further chaos spreading across the Arab region It is now a year since the government of Egypt jacked

Three Egyptian journalists and a lawyer were charged by a criminal court for denouncing state-sponsored fraud in last year’s parliamentary elections, judicial sources told AFP. Wael al-Ibrashi and Hoda Abu

Sumita Pahwa, one of the organizers of the Washington, DC, 25 May demo, writes about the day: Ustaz Ibrahim and I got there a bit early to set things up,

It’s not the first time that Egyptian police rape people they arrest — it happened several times a few years ago when the security services were conducting a pogrom against