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Abandon the tactic of terrorism and work within the system, the United States and its Western allies have long urged armed resistance groups. Lay down your weapons and pick up a megaphone. Campaign for public office and, if the people you claim to represent agree with your ideas, you’ll win power peacefully. Then, whether or not they share your values, the world will recognize your movement as ..

As Hamas struggles to tighten its grip over the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Egypt are seeking ways to weaken the Islamic fundamentalist movement, according to diplomats and policy experts in Washington.

Jordan and Egypt had been highly supportive of the P.A. and its president, the Fatah-aligned Mahmoud Abbas. But, informed observers say, with Hamas in control of the Palestinian le..

IFES is beginning a $1.3 million project that will examine how election administration in Egypt can become more credible and effective. The project aims to expand public discussion on electoral reform and inform voters about their rights and responsibilities. The year-long project also will seek to connect and expose voters to high-level policy discussions already taking place about electoral r..

What is most likely taking place within Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood goes beyond the repercussions of Hamas’ victory in Palestinian elections within the group, and involves wagers that the Brotherhood cannot disclose. Before Hamas’ election win, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood picked up 88 MPs, while in Iraq, the Islamic parties, whether Shiite or Sunni, have been elected to Parliament. All of t..

 Human rights activists condemned the arrest of at least 30 protesters at demonstrations held on 26 and 27 April, held in support of pro-reform judges.

Among other groups, the South Centre for Human Rights Studies called in a press statement for the "immediate release of all those detained for supporting independence".

According to various eyewitness accounts and televisi..

Egyptians Rally Behind Magistrates Targeted After Alleging Election Fraud
Thousands of police surrounded the stately square building on Abdel Khaleq Tharwat Street downtown Thursday, while up on the balcony a group of bespectacled judges stood in protest, cellphones trilling in their hands.

The place was the Judges Club, a palatial gathering spot for jurists that is outfitte..

Thousands of riot police sealed off access to Egypt’s High Court on Thursday, beating and arresting protesters who had turned out to support two judges facing a disciplinary panel because they had accused the government of election fraud.

The focus was a small demonstration over the treatment of the two judges and in support of more than 80 judges who had been staging a sit-in for more ..

There are few hundreds in the Egyptian Press Union (Syndicate) who are besieged since yesterday. They ran out of food and potable water.

  Security forces besieging the syndicate are denying them food delivery and any one who dare to step out is arrested on the spot. Many of the besieged are hungery and totally exhausted.

  A call for all the world reporters a..

Paradise Now" Directed by Hany Abu Assad, Academy Award Nominee, 2005 Best foreign language film 2005, Golden Globe winner, best foreign language film.

On February 14, 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman al-Saud on board the USS Quincy, anchored in the Great Bitter Lake along the Suez Canal in Egypt. The summit cemented a lengthy and, in recent years, often fractious relationship. Over the subsequent six decades, U.S.-Saudi relations ha..

In the early morning of April 14, 2006, Mahmoud Salah al-Din Abd al-Raziq, a Muslim, entered the church of Mar Girgis (Saint George) in Alexandria’s al-Hadra district and stabbed three parishioners who had gathered for a service. Abd al-Raziq then proceeded to attack worshippers at two other churches, according to police accounts, before being arrested en route to a fourth. Nushi Atta Girgis, 7..

Riot police wielding batons chased away protesters from Egypt’s supreme court yesterday as two judges who favor reform faced a disciplinary hearing for alleging fraud in last year’s parliamentary elections.

At least 16 demonstrators were arrested and one was beaten, said the Kifaya activist group, which organized the demonstration. Police declined to confirm the arrests or clashes.

Authorities free Al-Jazeera’s Cairo bureau chief
 Reporters Without Borders noted today that Al-Jazeera’s Cairo bureau chief, Hussein Abdel Ghani, was released late yesterday on bail after being arrested in the southern Sinai resort town of Dahab in the morning on a charge of broadcasting “false information likely to harm the country’s reputation.”
 
Ghani told his Q..

When two of America’s most distinguished academics dared to suggest that US foreign policy was being driven by a powerful ’Israel Lobby’ whose influence was incompatible with their nation’s own interests, they knew they would face allegations of anti-Semitism. But the episode has prompted America’s Jewish liberals to confront their own complacency. Might the tide be turning? 

The first section: Name and Definition
1. Name: Kurdistan Islamic Union (Yakgrtui Islami Kurdistan)

2. Definition: An Islamic reformative political party that strives to solve all political, social, economical and cultural matters of the people in Kurdistan from an Islamic perspective which can achieve the rights, general freedom and social justice.

The second ..

 When a new wave of terrorists blew themselves up in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula this week, the radical Palestinian Muslim group Hamas quickly joined Arab governments and Western leaders in condemning a "criminal attack which is against all human values."

Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood said the bombings were "aggression on human souls created by God."

The denunciations were ..

I laughed when Hamas swept the Palestinian elections. After all, President Bush and his gang of neoconservative ideologues have been preaching that democracy in the Middle East will lead to peace.

Oops. Now the president will once more have to expose himself as the hypocrite he is. Democracy is good, in Mr. Bush’s view, only if it elects the people he want..

It was a warm, clear and sunny day in the Jordanian Red Sea resort of Aqaba Saturday as King Abdullah II hosted talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the monarch`s beach-front palace. But the political and security backdrop of these summit talks was hardly as luminous as the setting on this beautiful day.

The meeting in southern Jordan came amid growing turmoil and terrorism in..