By Shahid Javed Burki The Daily Star Can Muslim governments free themselves from their countries’ powerful militaries and establish civilian control comparable to that found in liberal democracies? This question is now paramount in countries as disparate as Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey. To predict how this struggle will play out, […]
BEIJING, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) — China’s Foreign Ministry is paying great attention to the incident that 25 Chinese workers were held Tuesday by some local people in Egypt, and the Chinese embassy in Cairo is urgently pursuing the matter with the Egyptian side, the ministry said early Wednesday in a […]
Source: Spiegel on Line: Can Egypt Make Democracy Work? By Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Volkhard Windfuhr in Cairo Scott Nelson / DER SPIEGEL One year after the revolution, Egypt may have a parliament, but it still has a long way to go before it can call itself a true democracy. The […]
CAIRO — A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment. The genetics-environment question […]
A newly elected Islamist deputy was scolded on Monday for adding a religious reference to the swearing-in oath at the opening session of Egypt’s first post-revolution parliament. The deputies started to be sworn in one by one, pledging to “preserve the safety of the nation and the interests of people […]
By REUTERS ARABBEWS DAVOS: Leaders of the Arab Spring sought to assure the world’s elite in Davos that the rise of political Islam is not a threat to democracy, and pleaded for help creating jobs and satisfying the hunger of their people for a better life. Politicians, activists and entrepreneurs […]
By ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABBEWS He was a journalist, a writer, a linguist, a thinker, a reformer, a diplomat, a political theorist, a scholar and translator of the Holy Qur’an. […]
Islamic political parties don’t endanger democracy. Powerful leaders do by Fareed Zakaria As 2011 was coming to a close, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a remarkable speech to his parliament. Assessing the Arab Spring barely a year after it had begun, Netanyahu announced triumphantly that it had failed, that […]
By AP first published on ARAB NEWS BERLIN: Germany’s foreign minister says the West must avoid the mistake of assuming that Islamic-oriented parties aren’t compatible with freedom and modernization as […]
AP | Jan 11,2012 Source: Jordan Times CAIRO — The head of Al Azhar, the pre-eminent institute of Islamic learning in the Sunni Muslim world, put forward a Bill of […]
Source / Courtesy: NY Times By JOHN M. OWEN IV EGYPT’S final round of parliamentary elections won’t end until next week, but the outcome is becoming clear. The Muslim Brotherhood will most likely win half the lower house of Parliament, and more extreme Islamists will occupy a quarter. Secular parties […]
Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal Jimmy Carter is the 39th president of the United States, founder of the Carter Center and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He has authored many books, the most recent being “Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations […]
CAIRO/AMMAN — In a few words, a simple invitation to Christmas services ignited weeks of fears and highlighted a widening gap between Islamists and Egypt’s largest minority. Despite its electoral rise stretching from Alexandria to Aswan, observers say the resistance to the presence of Islamists at Friday’s Christmas services stands […]
Source: NY Times Khaled Desouki/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Voters in Minya, Egypt, took part in the final phase of parliamentary elections on Tuesday. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party holds the lead. CAIRO — With the Muslim Brotherhood pulling within reach of an outright majority in Egypt’s new […]
NY Times: CAIRO — With the Muslim Brotherhood pulling within reach of an outright majority in Egypt’s new Parliament, the Obama administration has begun to reverse decades of mistrust and hostility as it seeks to forge closer ties with an organization once viewed as irreconcilably opposed to United States interests. […]
Source / Courtesy: 50-50 Inclusive Democracy Egyptian women are lucky in one way. They have witnessed the predicament of Iranian women and seen how the Islamic state has hijacked the […]
The Arab revolutions have altered perceptions of the region. The new regimes may have democratic foundations but they won’t look like anything the West or liberals may hope for, especially in Egypt. Still, even if they end up being governed or dominated by Islamist parties, the new regimes that have […]
By SARAH EL DEEB | AP CAIRO: Egypt’s state prosecutor on Monday charged two Israelis and a Ukrainian with smuggling weapons and trying to implicate Egyptian security, the first case of its kind against foreigners since longtime President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February. A statement from the prosecutor’s office […]
CAIRO — Of the dozens of political forces and youth movements that have converged onto Tahrir Square in recent days to protest ongoing military rule in Egypt, the greatest impact was made by the ones not present. Amidst the dozens of political parties, movements and coalitions that took part in […]