CAIRO, Egypt — An Egyptian appeals court on Sunday upheld a guilty verdict against a newspaper editor who wrote stories questioning the presiden...
Miral Brinjy | Posted 09.17.2008 | Home
This week in the United States, I can write about the election under my name. Back in Egypt, I must veil my identity to protect myself from other Egyptians because of my views on social issues like women's rights.
Freddy Deknatel | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
April 6th in Egypt will be remembered as the day that a nationwide general strike was suppressed by the state. It may also be remembered as the day that Egypt began resembling Palestine.
Freddy Deknatel | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
Look no further than Egypt, where a loaf of bread sells for less that one cent, to take stock of rising world food prices and the extent of a looming global economic crisis.
Washington Post | Nora Boustany | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics
A leading human rights group said Thursday that the United States has lost its moral authority by supporting autocratic governments in strategic count...
Washington Post | Nora Boustany | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics
A leading human rights group said Thursday that the United States has lost its moral authority by supporting autocratic governments in strategic count...
William Fisher | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics
Like Karen Hughes, who played a major role in crafting the Administration's pre-Iraq-invasion sales campaign to our citizens, Jim Glassman brings a lot of baggage to his new job.
William Fisher | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
Foreign policy analysts and human rights advocates see the absence of press freedom as emblematic of a broader freedom deficit in most of the Arab countries represented at Annapolis.
William Fisher | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics
The Administration will likely have to put democracy-promotion on the back-burner and play the 'realpolitik' game. This will likely result in the US accepting another authoritarian dictator.
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PORTERVILLE, Calif. — National forests and parks _ long popular...
AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 09.28.2008 | Media