by Mohamed El-Menshawy Without condensing the issue of democracy in Egypt and diagnosing it as a struggle between the Islamist current and what is known as the civil current, democracy in Egypt is subject to many threats. Most notably, an alarming trinity founded on rising exclusionary fascist rhetoric; encouraging Islamophobia; and overt calls to marginalise…
The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic attack. But are they busting terrorist plots—or leading them? October 9, 2011 | UPDATE: On September 28, Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old graduate of Northeastern University, was arrested and charged with providing resources to a foreign terrorist organization and attempting to destroy national defense premises.…
by Richard Falk It was to be expected. It was signalled in advance. And yet it is revealing. The only other candidates considered for the job were equally known as Israeli partisans: Daniel Kurtzer, former ambassador to Israel before becoming Commissioner of Israel’s Baseball League and Dennis Ross, co-founder in the 1980s (with Indyk) of…
by Peter Buffett I HAD spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film and television and knew little about the world of philanthropy as practiced by the very wealthy until what I call the big bang happened in 2006. That year, my father, Warren Buffett, made good on his commitment to give…
by Felicity Arbuthnot “The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.” (Samuel Adams, 1722-1803, letter 1775.) This will surely have you falling down with surprise. According to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and obtained by the (UK) Sunday Telegraph, the August 2009 release from Scotland’s Barlinnie jail of Libyan…
Prominent film director, Mira Nair, has announced via her official Twitter account that she will not be attending Israel’s upcoming Haifa Film Festival. In a five-part statement, tweeted last Friday, Nair said: “I was just invited to Israel as a guest of honor at the Haifa International Film Festival…I will not be going to Israel…
by Finian Cunningham Egypt’s military strongman General Al Sisi is playing with fire that may engulf the North African country with even more internecine bloodshed. This week on state TV, Al Sisi called for massive street protests to face down “terrorists” who, he said, were destabilizing Egypt’s national security. He also claimed that such popular…
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary-General Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu has said that two members of Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights met on Friday with Mohamed Morsi, who has been held incommunicado by the army since his overthrow on July 3. İhsanoğlu provided no further details about the meeting. His statement came on Saturday after Egyptian…
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, an outspoken supporter of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi, lashed out at the European Union and others for failing to condemn strongly enough the killing of dozens in Cairo earlier on Saturday. Security forces shot dead dozens of Morsi supporters on Saturday, days after the army called for a…
