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Egyptians will resist by all peaceful means until our democracy is restored

Massacres, censorship, mass arrests, the toppling of Mohamed Morsi, a leader dedicated to dialogue: this is the true face of a military coup..

The regime can fix the elections – but it can't fix the Egyptian people

As Egypt moves towards its parliamentary elections in November, each day brings fresh evidence of the profound problems now endemic in our political life...

Israeli army's female recruits denounce treatment of Palestinians

Facebook images of an Israeli servicewoman posing with blindfolded Palestinians have caused a storm. Now two former female conscripts have spoken out about their own experiences..

Make Ramadan torture-free in Egypt

It's Ramadan, but the Egyptian police continue to practise brutality and torture. This year, they should set a better example..

Mohamed ElBaradei joins Egyptian sit-in over police death case

Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the UN nuclear watchdog, joined about 4,000 Egyptians at a rare large-scale street protest today, in his most direct challenge to President Hosni Mubarak since returning to the country earlier this year...

Mohamed ElBaradei joins Egyptian sit-in over police death case

Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the UN nuclear watchdog, joined about 4,000 Egyptians at a rare large-scale street protest today, in his most direct challenge to President Hosni Mubarak since returning to the country earlier this year...

WikiLeaks to release video of deadly US Afghan attack

Wikileaks has said it plans to release a video of a US air strike in Afghanistan which allegedly killed many children. Photograph: public domain The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks says it plans to release a secret military video of one of the deadliest US air strikes in Afghanistan in which scores of children are believed to have been killed...

Barack Obama serves notice on Egypt: I meant what I said about human rights

Hosni Mubarak is unlikely to have been too badly discomfited by Barack Obama's expression of mild disappointment at the renewal of Egypt's controversial emergency law...

Muslim driver fined for wearing veil

A Muslim woman has accused French police of attacking her freedom after she was fined for wearing a niqab while driving in the city of Nantes...

Respect candidate spearheads quiet revolution to get Muslim women involved in politics

Drums, loudhailers, chanting slogans. It is a very old-fashioned kind of politics that can be heard on the high street in Kings Heath, Birmingham...

Mohamed ElBaradei hits out at west's support for repressive regimes

Western governments risk creating a new generation of Islamist extremists if they continue to support repressive regimes in the Middle East, the former head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, has told the Guardian...

Why we're on strike at IslamOnline

Why we're on strike at IslamOnlineNew management in Qatar has hijacked our pluralist site in an attempt to make us follow a hardline agenda...

Islamism: why the west gets it wrong

Islamism is widely misunderstood in the west. It has its roots in a reaction to the global politics of the 20th century...

Talking to Iran has helped the US

Critics argue that the recent International Atomic Energy Agency report proves that the Obama administration's policy of engagement has been a waste of time, allowing Iran to make progress toward a bomb without feeling the pain of tougher sanctions..

Splitting Egypt's political atom

ElBaradei has been persuaded, through grassroots activism, to come home and launch a campaign to clean up the country's radioactive political decay after nearly three decades of toxic rule by the Hosni Mubarak regime...

Watch out: democratic Muslims about

The Islamic Forum Europe has been criticised for 'taking over' a London council. But the case against it doesn't stand up...

Muslim Brotherhood is young at heart.

The recent ascension of Mohamed Badie as the eighth supreme leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood group has been met with widespread frustration among the movement's reform-minded younger generation...

Hillary disappoints the Muslim world

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton worked tirelessly to earn her party's nomination, yet it was Barack Obama who rode to office on a wave of goodwill. Which means now-Secretary of State Clinton must be feeling a sense of deja vu...

The divide in Iran's green movement

How can we explain the contradictions of the green movement in Iran – with a pro-Islamic Republic leadership in Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, but at the same time, a secular, vocal fringe in the grassroots street protests?..

Terror is the price of support for despots and dictators

If an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor had gone on hunger strike in support of a besieged people in another part of the world, and hundreds of mostly western protesters had been stoned and beaten by police, you can be sure we'd have heard all about it...