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Return of the native

Former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei will have to overcome serious obstacles if he decides to contest the presidential election.

Feeling the Hate in New York

On April 25, over 1000 New York-area Jewish extremists gathered in midtown Manhattan to rally against the Barack Obama administration’s call for a freeze on construction in occupied East Jerusalem

‘Obama’s Shack’ Demolished By Israeli Security Forces

Israeli security forces demolished a handful of illegal structures in West Bank settlements Tuesday, including a wooden bunker that hard-line Jewish activists had defiantly named after President Barack Obama.

Avoiding the Mubarak pyramid scheme

The policy debate over whether to press autocratic yet "friendly" regimes on democracy and human rights is often cast as "values versus interests" or "realism versus idealism," but in the

Abu Zuhri: Obama’s statement proves unlimited support for Israel

Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said in a press release on Tuesday that American president Barack Obama's statement on the occasion of Nakba affirmed his administration's bias in

Obama’s Remainees

Closing Guantanamo does not simply mean emptying the prison cells at that naval base and throwing away the keys. It means ending the policy that has become synonymous with Guantanamo

The Structural Hopelessness of US Policy Toward the Middle East

Daniel Larison has made one of the strongest arguments I’ve seen for the structural hopelessness of US policy toward the Middle East. In response to my piece calling on Obama

POMED Notes: FY2011 Appropriations and Middle East Democracy”

The Project on Middle East Democracy and the Heinrich B?ll Foundation co-hosted an event on Capitol Hill to mark the release of a new publication, “The Federal Budget and Appropriations

ForeignPolicy.com: A Closer Look at the “Mubarak Trust Fund”

Stephen McInerney, POMED’s Director of Advocacy, published an article at ForeignPolicy.com about the potential establishment by the U.S. of an “endowment” for the Egyptian government, popularly referred to as the

Aafia Siddiqui forced to walk on Qu’ran while naked

As hundreds of concerned citizens hold a Day of Remembrance in Pakistan to commemorate the seventh anniversary of her disappearance, the Justice for Aafia Coalition reveal for the first time,