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It’s not the first time that Egyptian police rape people they arrest — it happened several times a few years ago when the security services were conducting a pogrom against homosexuals. But the sheer barbarity of using sticks to sodomize dissidents (a claim no..

Sumita Pahwa, one of the organizers of the Washington, DC, 25 May demo, writes about the day:

Ustaz Ibrahim and I got there a bit early to set things up, and within a few minutes there were two police-type cars there, which read “United States Secret Service - Uniformed Division” and the cops asked us what we were protesting about. Then a few minutes later a State Departme..

Three Egyptian journalists and a lawyer were charged by a criminal court for denouncing state-sponsored fraud in last year’s parliamentary elections, judicial sources told AFP.

Wael al-Ibrashi and Hoda Abu Bakr, both journalists with the independent Sawt al-Umma weekly, were charged with slandering a local electoral commission chief and publishing the..

Listen to an interview with Gamal Nkrumah, well-known journalist, political commentator & editor of the international section of the Egyptian English news paper Al-Ahram.

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Democracy is a government of we the rulers, for we the rulers and of course by we the rulers (shush! who are you to ask by whom?). This is what the modern-day Pharaohs seem to affirm with the force of power they wield – true at least in the case of Egypt, which is witnessing judges’ uprising countrywide against the diktat of the Hosni regime.
When two individuals or groups happen to dispute..

The American and European support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ ultimatum/threat to the governing Hamas party -- calling a "national referendum" -- is destructive of Palestinian democracy and Palestinian-Israeli relations . . .Rami Khouri writes

The symbolism of political dynamics in Palestinian-Israeli-American relations this week was striking, and tro..

US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick believes Egypt is in the midst of self-made chaos. Massoud A. Derhally reports from Sharm El Sheikh.

Political sources revealed to "Almasryoon" newspaper, the Egyptian government’s intention to step up its escalation against Muslim Brotherhood (MB) during the upcoming period. Sources mentioned that the government is planning to prevent Muslim Brotherhood from participating in any future elections, whether parliamentary, municipal, or labor unions elections. Moreover, the government will deal s..

The U.S. embassy in Cairo denied on Sunday its ambassador had made comments about Washington’s aid to the Arab world’s most populous nation that had Egyptian MPs up in arms.

Lawmakers accused the ambassador of interfering in Egypt’s domestic affairs after parliament was told of the reported comments by Ambassador Francis Ricciardone.

"The U.S. has interests and pays money to the..

The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR)has expressed reservations about the Egyptian anti-terrorism law. Mohammad Fayek, the General Secretary of the Arab Organization for Human Rights emphasized before human rights committee at people’s assembly on Sunday 28/5/2006 that the emergency law could not be replaced with a more permanent law. He added that such a law represents a threat to huma..

The Hisham Mubarak Law Center has issued a statement which declares a demonstration will take place on Thursday, June 1, in front of Kasr El Nil police station, Garden City. It also asks for other Egyptian human rights organizations to come forward in support and participation in Thursday’s demonstration.

The announcement came following a press conference in front of the lawyers syndica..

The situation is Palestine grows worse day by day, and expectations suggest that tomorrow will be worse. Tension, bullets, accusations, anxiety and assassins are in every corner.
Many political analysts sadly suggest that the tension will end up in an explosion in the situation in Palestine.

Fears increase of a civil war between the fighting Palestinian factions.
Some politicia..

A leader of the Islamic Action Front, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Wednesday criticized Jordan’s draft anti-terrorism legislation as an oppressive, US-influenced bid to stifle Jordan’s government reform movement and encourage the establishment of a police state in the country. The bill, first proposed last November in response to the deadly Amman hotel bomb that kille..

Just over a year ago, Alaa Seif al-Islam was one of a growing number of Egyptian bloggers who recounted their lives online, published poetry, provided Web tips, helped private aid agencies use the Internet and stayed out of politics.

But on May 25, 2005, Seif al-Islam witnessed the beating of women at a pro-democracy rally in central Cairo by supporters of the ruling National Democratic..

Egypt may change the constitution in a way that makes it more difficult for the opposition Muslim Brotherhood movement to win large numbers of parliamentary seats, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif said in an interview.

Nazif said one proposal was to introduce an electoral voting system which combines voting for individuals and voting for party lists, but this would require constitutional chan..

It is time for Arab liberal reformers and peaceful Islamist movements to join forces to foster the change in this region that neither of them has been able to bring about on its own . . . Rami Khouri writes

The relationship between Islam and democracy in the contemporary world is complex. The Muslim world is not ideologically monolithic. It presents a broad spectrum of perspectives ranging from the extremes of those who deny a connection between Islam and democracy to those who argue that Islam requires a democratic system. In between the extremes, in a number of countries where Muslims are a majo..

Police in the Egyptian capital have arrested at least three people who were trying to get to a small symbolic demonstration outside a police station where an activist said he was tortured last week. Most of the other protesters were blocked from entering the neighborhood.

With only nine demonstrators there, it was barely a protest. There was no chanting, and nobody carried any signs. Mo..

Since Hamas’s victory in January, the economy in the West Bank and Gaza has plummeted, and tensions are rising between the new ruling party and President Mahmoud Abbas. Ziad Abu Zayyad, former legislator and Palestinian Authority minister of state, spoke to FP about Hamas’s leaders, why they came to power, and the prospects for peace.

FOREIGN POLICY: When Hamas was elec..