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The Situation of Human Rights in Egypt 2009: Introduction, summary and recommendations

Issuing the 20th annual report of EOHR of 2009 comes in the light of a political environment not different from the previous years. Violations still committed against human rights. They

The impresario: Gilles Kepel, scholar of radical Islam

After a series of books established him as a world-famous analyst of radical Islam, Gilles Kepel decided to stop writing and start mapping a renaissance in Gulf-Europe relations. John Gravois

Israel-Turkey axis turned on its head

For many observers, the long-term implications of Israel's deadly May 31 assault against the MV Mavi Marmara, the Turkish flagship that was part of the Gaza Freedom flotilla, on Israeli-Turkish

9,000 activists and 35 media organizations to participate in Freedom Flotilla 2

The European campaign to end the Siege on Gaza announced Monday that Freedom Flotilla 2 will be delayed until late September or early October due to expansion in participation from

The Spot-and-Shoot Game: Israeli female soldiers kill by remote control

The female soldiers, located far away in an operations room, are responsible for aiming and firing remote-controlled machine-guns mounted on watch-towers every few hundred metres along an electronic fence that

MB offshoot calls on Egypt to allow entry of stranded Gaza bound convoy

Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood offshoot the Islamic Action Front, appealed to the government to interfere and call on Egypt to permit the entry into its territories of a humanitarian aid convoy

IHH announces more convoys to break Gaza siege

Bulent Yildirim, the head of the Turkish IHH humanitarian relief foundation, has asserted that his organization prepares for more sea and land convoys to break the unjust siege on Gaza

PSL warns against Israeli marches in Jerusalem

The Palestine Scholars League has warned of the dangers of upcoming extremist marches and rallies, organized with the full support of the Israeli occupation government, in occupied Jerusalem.

Ashton in Gaza on Sunday

Catherine Ashton, the high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy, has announced that she will visit Gaza Strip on Sunday to study a possible EU

Lieberman proposes complete disengagement from Gaza

Five years after Israel's unilateral disengagement from Gaza, Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman has proposed a new plan aimed at ridding Israel of any responsibility for the coastal enclave, the