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Brotherhood blogger prevented from leaving the country

An Egyptian blogger and journalist Abdel Moneim Mahmoud was stopped at Cairo Airport Thursday evening and prevented from travelling from to a conference on press freedom in Morocco.

Low turnout in Egypt elections

Egyptian police detained independent monitors and barred rights groups from voting stations on Tuesday during local elections which generated little enthusiasm from Egyptians, the groups said.

Elusive Peace: 60 Years of Pain and Suffering in Palestine

George W. Bush, who proposed the boldest peace initiative of any American president to solve the Palestine issue, managed to deliver only the most meager results during his two-term presidency.

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Belongs on the Ballot, Not Behind Bars

On April 8 municipal elections are scheduled to be held nationwide across Egypt, but they will hardly be a vote for the kind of democracy that America proclaims it supports

Muslims Anti Zionists Not Jews: Qaradawi

Prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi has denied any enmity between Muslims and Jews, asserting that Muslims are only opposed to the hostile, expansionist Zionist movement.

Generation Facebook

Generation Facebook is the godchild of two important developments that took off over the past three years in Egypt - an increasingly bold blogging movement and street activism. And on

Fears for jailed Brotherhood leader

Khirat al-Shater, second in command of the Muslim Brotherhood, has just been sentenced by a military tribunal to seven years in jail for belonging to a banned organisation and giving

Haneyya: Muslims and Christians are one people sharing the same pain

Ismail Haneyya, the premier of the PA caretaker government, stated during his meeting Wednesday with patriach Michel Sabbah and a high-level church delegation that Muslims and Christians in Palestine are

Brotherhood throws weight behind 4 May general strike in Egypt

Egyptian opposition groups expressed excitement on Wednesday after the nation’s largest and most popular opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, threw its support behind a planned nationwide strike on 4 May.

Freedom House: Relative Improvement in Press Freedom In the Middle East

Freedom House report on Press freedom, released in advance of the World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd, indicated that setbacks in press freedom outnumbered advances 2 to 1 across