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· Leaked memo calls for diplomatic contact
· Hamas success provoked Foreign Office rethink

A leaked Foreign Office memo published yesterday reveals that the government is to establish ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group banned by the Egyptian government.
Like other western countries, Britain is struggling with the dilemma posed by the electoral successes of Is..

Land Center for Human Rights’ Workshop on:
“Democracy and Egyptian Peasants: What is after the Elections”

 The LCHR has hold a training workshop in the Sa’id Association under the title of “Democracy and Egyptian Peasants: What is after the Elections,” on Saturday Feb. 11th 2006. The number of participants and attendants reached 167 from most Egyptian governorates, particularly ..

 Amidst the furor gripping the Muslim world over the insulting cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him, four capitals in three continents witnessed four incidents, in a way, related to freedom of expression and the reaction is, to say the least, telling.

In the Egyptian capital Cairo, four prominent judges were stripped off their immunity on Wednesday, ..

Britain denied on Friday reports that its diplomats had been told to open contacts with Egypt’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement.

A Foreign Office spokesman said the only direct contact his government had was with independent parliament members, without denying that these could include Brotherhood sympathizers.

The New Statesman magazine on Thursday published what it said we..

Arafat created one of the most ill-disciplined, corrupt and ineffective organizations ever to be taken seriously on the world stage.

 In the late 1970s, American officials were aware that the Shah of Iran was losing domestic support. They analyzed alternate scenarios and studied various opposition groups. They thought they were being very bold in their outreach, talking to Marxists..

As is usually the case when events west of the Jordan River take a dramatic turn, Jordan is the country in the Middle East that will feel the most immediate and potentially far-reaching consequences.

Hamas’ sweeping victory in landmark elections last month is no exception. Jordan has been notably cautious in reacting to the Hamas victory, unlike Egypt, which almost immediately repeated..

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said here on Saturday that Egypt would continue to support the Palestinians after Hamas won the legislative election, the official MENA news agency reported.

Abul Gheit made the remarks while meeting visiting Arab Israeli Knesset Member Ahmed al Tibi, according to the report.  "Egypt’s support to the Palestinian cause and the realization o..

Today, Mussa Abu Marzoq of the Palestinian Hamas called the US to remove his movement from its list of terrorist organizations on the wake of Hamas success in the legislative elections.
 
The member of Hamas Political Bureau Mussa Abu Marzoq said:’ the US has listed Hamas as a terrorist organizations to protect the American higher interests’. Mussa clarified..

In the summer of 1881, the English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt wrote a series of essays subsequently published under the title, The Future of Islam. Blunt was a high-born patron of the downtrodden, a policy intellectual of sorts who enlivened the drawing rooms of Victorian ministers and viceroys. He had also fallen under the spell of the forerunners of modern Islamic fundamentalism. In his book, ..

In 1978-79, a mass movement headed by Ruhollah Khomeini’s faction of the Shi’i clergy toppled the corrupt and authoritarian government of the Shah of Iran – a major American client who had for decades resisted any concession to popular participation in his country.

As the Iranian Revolution progressed, it became apparent just how brittle the state apparatus ..

Never-published photos, and an internal Army report, show more Iraqi prisoner abuse -- evidence the government is fighting to hide.