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During a conference held last week at the headquarters of the Press Syndicate engineers struggling to have the judicial sequestration imposed on their own syndicate in 1995 lifted called upon other professional syndicates and human rights groups to join in their battle.

Before the conference a symbolic sit-in was staged in front of the Press Syndicate, attended by members of other syndi..

Next Saturday’s one-day conference, organised by the Policies Committee of National Democratic Party (NDP) which is headed by Gamal Mubarak, will be the third in three months. Its aim is to drum up support within the party for a raft of new legislation to be submitted to the People’s Assembly within the next two months. Leading NDP officials from the party’s secretariat-general, politburo and t..

Every time there’s a messy election somewhere, pundits drag Winston Churchill out of his grave to tell us, “Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." But is that any excuse for the disappointments and debacles we’ve seen so far this 21st century? The list is long and depressing, starting with the electoral farce in the United..

The judiciary and the executive are the two major pillars of the democratic system, and these are supplementary and complementary to each other. However, the strange thing in Egypt is that they are on a collision course. Who are the losers, other than the people themselves?

Dear readers, that conflict is reflected in the latest instance of the government stalling a meeting between a..

With a recent gunfight at an opposition party headquarters and a series of arrests of Muslim Brotherhood members, the state of the Egyptian opposition has seldom been more uncertain.

"We’re seeing the systematic erosion of most of the opposition parties," Mohammed Sayyed Said, deputy director of the state-run Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies told IPS. "But this is on..

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Haneyya: We Will Not Back Away From Our Invariable National Attitudes  Despite All Pressures
Islamil Haneyya, the Palestinian prime minister, affirmed that his government, which came to power through free and fair elections and whose political program was approved by the Palestinian people, will not relinquish that program under any circumstances.
  During the Friday pr..

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on Friday that financial pressure from an "unholy alliance" led by the United States will not bring down the new Hamas government.

Tens of thousands of Hamas supporters poured onto Gaza’s streets after Friday prayers to attend Hamas-sponsored rallies protesting aid cuts by the European Union and the United States.

Asserting ..

Nearly half of Americans believe their government should mind its own business internationally as President George W. Bush’s rating hit all time low due to the Iraq war, a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll showed Friday, April 14.

The number of Americans who think the United States "should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along as best they can on their own," ha..

At the center, at its very core, is the US agenda of dominating the region. Put another way, it is about securing Israel’s dominant position in a New Middle East.

End of story: Israel triumphant 

By M.K. Bhadrakumar

In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ novella Chronicle of a Death Fo..

"The existing 57 Muslim states are no more than colonial encroachments on the ruins of an Islamic entity. These encroachments were erected only to make Muslims feel at home rather than to have them think about living as one Ummah. Presently, there are 57 Muslim countries, with 57 policies and 57 Shirk-infested national anthems, divided interests and unclear strategies. The Organization of Islam..

The United States on Friday stepped up its economic war on Hamas and gave a new green light to further Israeli military escalations against Palestinians under Israeli occupation since 1967, as President Mahmoud Abbas appealed to the European Union to reverse its decision to halt financial aid to the Palestinian people and his Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh pledged that his government will not gi..

 Egyptian security forces have arrested 12 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the last two days, the latest in a series of arrests of members of the outlawed opposition Islamist group.

Seven Brotherhood members were arrested late on Friday and another five late on Thursday, security sources and the Brotherhood said on Saturday. At least 50 Brotherhood members have been arrest..

Egyptian security forces deployed around Coptic churches in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria Saturday following attacks that left one person dead, the official MENA news agency reported. 
 
 

The move came as Noshi Atta Girgis, fatally stabbed Friday by a man officials said was mentally unstable, was to be buried.

At least five others were wounded in t..

 Russia said yesterday it had promised emergency aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, breaking with the European Union and the United States, which have stopped funding to try to force Hamas to recognize Israel.
    The Foreign Ministry said the offer came in a telephone conversation between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Palestinian Authority Presiden..

Dr. Abdel-Moneim Abu el-Fotouh, member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Executive Bureau, in an interview aired on the satellite Dream T.V. channel, stated that the Islamic Caliphate, is a political and not a religious concept. It is a sort of a federation of Muslim States in a system of integration and cooperation in economic and political fields. All Muslim peopl..

Hamas is denying reports in the Israeli press that the Muslim Brotherhood is allowing the recognition of Israel.

The Israeli Yediot Aharonot reported on Friday that the leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Mahdi ‘Akif issued a fatwa, or a religious decree, which allows Hamas to recognize Israel.

But a Hamas spokesman said the problem lies with the Israeli, not the Palesti..

The Israeli lobby and the neoconservatives are beating the drums for war with Iran. I hope the president is not that dangerously stupid. The betting on whether he is that stupid is about even.

The neocons – who, being self-centered, seemingly have no concept of human nature – are advancing the premise that a military attack on Iran will cause the people to lose faith in their government..

 Activists renewed calls for official recognition of Islamist opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood after dozens of the banned-but-tolerated party’s members were arrested in recent weeks.
 
 
"We call for the government to recognise the Muslim Brotherhood as a legitimate political party," said Nigad al-Borai, director of the Cairo-based Group for Democratic Developme..

For decades, western countries have propped up ’strongmen’ in the Middle East. Some proponents of ’realpolitik’ believe that this is still a viable and desirable policy. The only alternative to secular dictatorships is theocratic dictatorships committed to jihad. But where is the evidence for this proposition?

The poster child for supporters of Arab dictatorships w..