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Campaign launched to defend Arab activists

Arab Lawyers launched a campaign titled "Together to stop making human rights a way to prison” objecting to the security apparatuses continued violations against human rights activists in some Arab

Obama is too friendly with tyrants

Peaceful opposition groups proliferated in Egypt during the Bush years: Youth for Change, Artists for Change, Egypt's Independent Judges and, perhaps the most well-known, Kefaya.

Opening Rafah border helps ease tension in Middle East

Egypt’s decision to open the border with Gaza at the Rafah border crossing serves to ease tension in the Middle East after a crisis in which Israel attacked a flotilla,

MB leader slams IOF murders calling for worldwide unity and support

In his weekly message Dr. Mohamed Badie the Muslim Brotherhood Chairman, called on the Arab League and Muslim countries to act efficiently and quickly to remove the siege on Gaza

Conference in Solidarity with Gaza

In a conference organized on May 25, by the Doctors Syndicate, Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat, of the Muslim Brotherhood stressed that the Palestinian issue is the MB's top priority

Why is the Arab world frozen in time?

Why is it that at the beginning of the 21st century the Arab world seems stuck in time? Why are most Arabs still ruled by kings or military dictatorships? And

Arab Attitudes One Year After Cairo

The speech, which focused on shared problems, shared misconceptions and shared goals, elicited a near euphoric response from most officials and editorial writers across the Arab World. The reactions of

Birthday Greetings from Hizbollah

The popular adage that the most concise book title is also the most attention grabbing isn't always true. A title like "The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a

Literature Greats join protest for IOL workers’ democracy

On his return from Barcelona George Orwell wrote in his classic , ‘The Homage to Catalonia’, “ There was much in it (revolution 1937 Spain) that I didn’t understand ,

The US-Egypt NGO funding problem

Despite Washington’s annoyance that Egypt renewed the controversial Emergency Laws that allow for arrest and detention without trial and the use of State Security Courts, the United States didn’t appear