Ribal al-Assad doesn't look like the son of a war criminal; fluent English, fluent French, fluent Arabic (of course), fluffy black hair and brown eyes, a youngish 35, Boston graduate,

The Egyptian Communications Ministry has warned owners of private satellite television channels of allowing Egyptian citizens belonging to political opposition factions from appearing as guests on their channels.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information expressed today deep resentment of arresting 15 citizens in Alexandria for distributing and posting publications calling citizens for signing political reform demands.

Haynes Mahoney, spokesman for the US Embassy in Cairo stressed that the drafted law to support democracy and freedoms in Egypt submitted by a number of the US Senators was

Facebook activists from the Egyptian governorate Damietta launched an online campaign titled "With constitutional rights we stand firm" in an effort to publicize the first article in the constitution which

Maybe the Brotherhood would win a free and fair election in Egypt. Maybe not. They are popular, but are they popular enough to bring home a majority vote? Probably not.

Mubarak spoke about the economy, democracy, human rights, the Palestinian question, and Egypt 's place in the world. However details concerning the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for 2011 were notably

A Turkish military court yesterday rejected the trial of Colonel Dursun Cicek accused of a plot to dishonour and expel the Islamist-rooted government.

That was 1967, when the Knesset included members like Levy Eshkol and Pinchas Sapir, David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan, Menachem Begin and Yohanan Bader, Meir Yaari and Yaakov Chazan, for

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.