By Alan Hart March 01, 2016 “Information Clearing House” -It’s not too much of a secret that Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a Trump-like megalomaniac and a tyrant with few equals, is happy to do dirty work for Israel. And it may now be that he is seeking to prepare the ground for Mohammed Dahlan, almost […]
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By Mohamad Elmasry Leading Egyptians, including media figures, have begun to turn their fire away from the Brotherhood and toward President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi A large body of media research suggests that media systems inevitably reflect the larger sociopolitical systems in which they are situated. Thus, democratic political systems tend to produce relatively free press institutions
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Udi Aloni said comments at Berlin Film Festival were directed at Israeli government, rather than at country he ‘loves’ Filmmaker Udi Aloni is interviewed at the Berlin Film Festival (YouTube screen grab) An award-winning Israeli director has branded Israel’s government as “fascist” during a press conference at a film festival in Germany. Udi
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Egypt’s interior minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar said authorities were exerting “huge efforts” to investigate last month’s torture and murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni (photo by Mostafa Abulezz/AFP/File) Egypt’s interior minister apologised Monday for human rights abuses committed by police after an officer killed a driver with his service weapon in Cairo last week. Magdy
By Abdullah Al-Arian The final step in the restoration of Egypt’s authoritarian system of government appears to be complete. Ali Abdel Al is elected speaker of Egypt’s parliament [REUTERS] Egypt has been without a parliament since 2012. As the drastically reconstituted legislative body convenes this week for the first time in nearly four years,
Government corruption has become rampant: Senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day surfing porn sites instead of cracking down on financial crimes Nuclear Regulatory Commission workers watch porn instead of cracking down on unsafe conditions at nuclear plants An EPA employee who downloaded 7,000 porn files, then spent 2-6 hours each workday watching porn. He’s been doing
By Basheer Nafi The British review on the Muslim Brotherhood is another stratum in a long history of misunderstanding of the movement On 17 December 2015, British Prime Minister David Cameron submitted to parliament a summary of the conclusions of a review, which he himself ordered in April 2014, about the Muslim Brotherhood. The
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Countries where Islam is already favoured in law, like Afghanistan and Iraq, show the strongest backing for having Sharia as the official law of the land The legal framework based on the moral and legal code of Islam is rarely out of the news. The most extreme interpretations of Sharia are being enforced by Isis
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US officials expressed frustration that Assad is trying to set his own rules about which opponents he is prepared to talk to File photo shows US Secretary of State John Kerry (AFP) US Secretary of State John Kerry flew in to Moscow on Tuesday to meet Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and urge him
By Lamis Andoni The beginning of the solution to the Syrian crisis lies in the emergence of a unified, credible leadership. A man is seen pushing his bicycle in an area adjacent to the Waer neighborhood in the central city of Homs, Syria [AP] World powers, regional players, the Syrian regime, the splintered opposition and
