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EGYPT:’Obama Talks Democracy, Endorses Dictatorship’

Egyptian officials are lining up to praise U.S. President Barack Obama’s address to the Islamic world delivered in Cairo Thursday. But local campaigners for political reform say the speech was

US-MIDEAST: Hamas Leader to Obama: Deeds, Not Words

The head of Hamas’s political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, gave a qualified welcome here Thursday to the big speech that Pres. Barack Obama addressed to the Muslim world in Cairo.

A Meeting in Damascus

About an hour after Barack Obama’s excellent Cairo speech, I met with Khaled Meshal, the leader of Hamas, at his office here to talk about the speech and the Israel-Palestine

MB: Obama’s Speech For Improvement of America’s Image, Offers No New To the Islamic World

In their statement on Saturday, the MB emphasized that if the American-led campaign against Muslims didn’t stop tension would continue and rise, resistance would increase and strengthen, and the instability

The Egyptian government paves the way for Further restrictions imposed on the Civil Society

However, the Ministry is showing evident signs of carefree attitude reflected by a full blackout about the draft law proposed by NGOs and the announcement that a committee was established

The 1967-war revisited

In June 1967, I was ten years old. I remember how we were told to raise the white flag when the Israeli army surrounded our small village, Khorsa, 15 kilometres