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The following are the headlines of Egypt’s main daily newspapers today: AL AHRAM: - INCIDENTS AT THE WAFD PARTY, police arrest Noman Gomaa, Ahmed Nasser, Gomaas’ sons and 60 thugs - GOVERNMENT WILL NOT COMPLETELY PRIVATISE THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY - MUBARAK TODAY IN ALGIERS EXAMINES THE SITUATION IN THE REGION WITH BOUTEFLIKA - JUSTICE MINISTER: INFORMATION BILL TO BE APPROVED BY PARLIAMENT -..

The City and Its Inscriptions
The Arab Jebusites Were the First to Have Settled There
Doubts Are Cast on the Alleged Kingdom of Israel
A press article published in the Jordanian daily Al-Ra’i,
Jerusalem is one of the oldest cities on earth and the monuments left behind by its original Jebusite inhabitants, who once belonged to a Canaanite tribe of the early Arabs having immigrat..

The PA interior minister, Saeed Siyam, of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, affirmed that wisdom and determination are essentials in dealing with and getting rid of the security mess witnessed in the PA territories for months now.

Siyam met Sunday with PA police director, Ala Husni, for the first ever meeting of the two, where he discussed the status of the PA Police institution a..

Ismail Haneyya, the PA premier and minister of youth and sports, has refused appointment of his eldest son Abdul Salam as manager of the ministry of youth and sports undersecretary’s office.

Haneyya asked his son to write a letter to the undersecretary asking him to be relieved of the promotion, which he did although he said that other employees would be also affected.

However, ..

The 24-minister Hamas-led Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet was approved by a large majority by the Legislative Council on Tuesday, the same day the Israeli general elections took place.

The approval, which was preceded by two days of often acrimonious discussion of the government program by lawmakers, especially the Fatah-dominated opposition, was largely a formality since Hamas, whic..

A performance-based road map to a permanent two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The following is a performance-based and goal driven roadmap, with clear phases, timelines, target dates, and benchmarks aiming at progress through reciprocal steps by the two parties in the political, security, economic, humanitarian, and institution-building fields, under the auspices of the..

Palestine was predestined by God Almighty to be the land from which prophets and messengers took upon their shoulders the banner of monotheism and called upon their people to abide by it.

In its ancient history, Palestine witnessed models of leadership by many prophets and their subsequent command over their people. These prophets waged violent struggles for the sake of fixing the banne..

The first weapon of choice for the Israeli lobby when someone with prestige publishes a soundly researched paper or book critical of Israel or its powerful lobby is silence. If it’s a book, it rarely gets reviewed; its author doesn’t get interviewed. If it’s a paper, there are no news stories in the big corporate press, no interviews with the a..

A group of Egyptian judges that has been pushing for more judicial independence said yesterday it had cancelled a meeting with a visiting Human Rights Watch delegation because of government pressure.

The board of the Judges’ Club, whose members have openly criticised abuses in last year’s parliamentary elections, had been due to meet the rights group tomorrow.

Judges’ Club Presi..

For the first time in the history of Egyptian Parliament, more than 120 members of the parliament of different political backgrounds, agreed to form a legislative lobby to rescind emergency laws. The new lobby, “United Parliamentarians Against Emergency Law”, will also seek to abolish all freedom restricting laws and to release political prisoners including journalists.  T..

 A Palestinian child was killed and two others were wounded with Israeli occupation (IOF) bullets in the early hours of Tuesday during an IOF storming operation to the Palestinian refugee camp of Kalandia, north of Ramallah city.

Scores of IOF armored vehicles and troops burst into the camp amidst intensive machinegun fire that generated panic among children and women. They (I..

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Every day the Seattle Times runs a few inches slugged "Terrorism Digest." Aside from the usual shorts on Moussaoui, a rumored attack during March Madness, and an elderly ice cream truck driver in Lodi California who is accused of planning to blow up skyscrapers in Hollywood, most of the news is not about terrorism at all but rather the torture of alleged terrorists, perha..

 I never thought I’d ever spend a birthday in a Sushi restaurant in Cairo.

On the evening in question, my producer Schams Elwazer surprised me with a chocolate cake. My colleagues and a couple of waiters then sang "Happy Birthday" with varying degrees of enthusiasm.

I blew my candles and wished everyone good health.

In Egypt filming the April 6 edition of Inside the..

Suffice it to say that I knew the backlash had begun, and it was to rage with increasing ferocity. I look back now and wonder if I had seen it coming. Perhaps it was inevitable, for there was too much at stake. When ambition exceeds ability, the results can be disorienting, if not outright destructive. This, I worry, is what happened to our post-9/11 efforts, ho..

Just months ago, under intense international pressure to ease its stranglehold on neighboring Lebanon, the Syrian government was talking about ending the ruling Baath Party’s grip on Syrian power and paving the way for a multiparty system.

But things have moved in the opposite direction. Syrian officials are aggressively silencing domestic political opposition while accommodating religi..

 The inauguration of a new Palestinian Cabinet, formed by the Islamic militant group Hamas, has inspired fresh debate over the Bush administration’s drive for democracy in the Middle East.

Hamas’ capture of 56 percent of the vote in the January 2006 legislative elections is symptomatic of a broader regional elevation of Islamists to political power. Indeed, in the 2005 Egyptian pa..

The prospects for democracy in Muslim states are threatened less by internal forces today than by the outside powers which demand that it should be no more than an instrument for imposing their will on the Muslim peoples by other means

In a widely publicised address delivered at London’s Whitehall Palace in November 2003, President George W Bush prescribed democracy as the answer to tyr..

Conventional wisdom tells us that Israel enjoys unparalleled support in the United States, from powerful lobbying and advocacy groups to public intellectuals and lawmakers.  While the Israeli government does indeed enjoy a great deal of support from various groups, organizations, and personalities in American society and government, that support is neither unconditional nor universal. ..