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Losing Cairo?

Since Barack Obama's speech six months ago, the Muslim world has begun to lose hope in the United States. But it's not too late ... yet.

Revealing Truths Behind the Western Sahara Conflict

Through the doctor's plight, Thomas Hollowell's book describes Moroccan military and civilian prisoners who were captured by the Polisario guerilla-war movement and taken to prison camps in southwestern Algeria. While

Headlines from the region

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $162 million loan to bolster a Moroccan program aimed at widening access to financial services, the bank said on Friday.

Headlines from the region

Saudi Arabia was the biggest buyer of U.S. weapons during a four-year span with $11.2 billion in deals, followed by the United Arab Emirates with $10 billion, the U.S. Congressional

Report: Human Rights on the Decline Part II

As we reported earlier, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) has released a comprehensive and thorough report, called “Bastion of Impunity, Mirage of Reform,”

Bastion of Impunity, Mirage of Reform

Today the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies released its second annual report on the state of human rights in the Arab world for the year 2009.

Headlines from the region

Spain’s deputy prime minister, Mar?a Teresa Fern?ndez de la Vega, has said it is in negotiations with Morocco over the return of a prominent Western Sahara independence activist who has

Muslim Americans: A National Portrait

The Gallup Organization has conducted a study of Muslim-Americans that reveals “Muslims in America have a much more positive outlook on life than their counterparts in most predominantly Muslim countries

Stormy Change

W hat is it with shifts in American foreign policy and the month of November? On the first Thursday of November 2003, the United States changed its foreign policy toward

Islamist Politics at MESA

Greetings from the 2009 annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, where I’ve had the pleasure of attending four panels so far, all of which were interesting.