SANA’A: A young 23-year-old woman from Sana’a was buried last week by her family after her cancer spread to her brain and other organs. Fatma, whose life was cut short by cancer was diagnosed 8 months ago with a stage 2 breast cancer, which doctors said they could treat through surgery and an aggressive round [...]
Cairo – Saudi Arabia has announced it will re-open its embassy in Egypt, after closing it in late April due to massive protests. The conflict began when Ahmed al-Gizawi, an Egyptian human rights lawyer, was arrested in April by Saudi security forces upon arriving in the country to take part in the umrah, an Islamic [...]
On the 64th anniversary of Al Nakba, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) hails the courage and resilience of thousands of Palestinian prisoners as they continue to peacefully struggle for their basic rights and freedoms. We positively note that an agreement was reached between representatives of around 2,000 Palestinian hunger strikers inside Israeli [...]
Iranian authorities killed Makwan Mouloudzadeh on December 5, 2007. Six months earlier, a court had convicted Mouloudzadeh — a youth of Kurdish descent from near Kermanshah — of raping others three boys when he was 13. However, his accusers retracted their claims; no evidence against him remained. In November, Iran’s chief justice had overturned the death [...]
Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh sparked a media frenzy this week when he lashed out, calling Israel a “racist” threat. His words received the usual condemnation from Western commentators, who attempted to paint Aboul Fotouh as “yet another Arab who attacks Israel.” Was he really “just another Arab” attacking Israel? No, he was [...]
London – Rapid political developments have become a fixture of Egyptian politics in the post-Mubarak era. In the past few days, former International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed El-Baradei established a new political party, saying he hopes to revive the values of the revolution; and Saudi Arabia withdrew its Egyptian ambassador due to protests [...]
New Delhi: Two feminine ends of what was once India’s most poignant love triangle saga, finally find themselves under one roof; that of the Indian Parliament. The smoldering-forever Rekha Ganesan and the once-bubbly-now-dogged Jaya Bachchan, both renowned actresses of Indian cinema, shared space under the grand dome of the Indian Parliament’s Upper House, the Rajya [...]
Egypt’s presidential elections are fast approaching. Egyptians abroad have already started voting. I voted today. This short article will try to emphasize and clarify the consequences of this election, as many Egyptians seem not to understand what this election is all about. This election is not about who has the best vision or campaign plan; [...]
Sana’a – On 21 February Yemenis went to the polls and elected former vice president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi as president in a one-candidate referendum, ending the 33 year-rule of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Some see this as the end of the struggle between political elites and the popular, peaceful youth revolutionary movement. But [...]
TEL AVIV: A crowd of a few hundred amassed in front of Tel Aviv University to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian “Nakba,” or disaster, which refers to certain consequences of the establishment of the State of Israel: the destruction of an estimated 622 villages and the exodus of roughly 700,000 Palestinians who became [...]
“We are not at war with Islam” — President Obama It was only last month that Pentagon officials repeatedly implored Pastor Terry Jones not to burn copies of the Quran fearing that Jones’s inflammatory action could arouse Muslim sentiments and endanger the lives of US soldiers serving in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Yet, a month later [...]
New Delhi: Conventionally speaking, 86 is perhaps an age where one slowly relinquishes the warm joys of being a grandfather and begins tinkering with the idea that maybe… just about maybe you could well be a great grandfather. But for Indian Congressman Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who has been freefalling from grace over the last few [...]
It seems we have forgotten, as a global community, how to listen. We continue to judge, tell the “other” how to pursue change in their local struggle for rights. When Mona Eltahawy published her angry diatribe on “Why do they hate us” referring to Arab men and the plight of women in the Middle East, [...]
Islamabad – Hunched on the floor of Gurdwara Sis Ganj, a Sikh temple in New Delhi, Khurshid Ahmad Khan, Pakistan’s Deputy Attorney General, earnestly polished the shoes of devotees flocking to him either in delight or amazement. To him, polishing shoes served as penance for the brutal killing of a Sikh man at the hands [...]
London – Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy unleashed a veritable media storm on Arab gender relations with her recent article for Foreign Policy magazine, provocatively titled, “Why Do They Hate Us?” referring to male attitudes towards women. Amid the controversy, however, important questions risk being overlooked. Instead of dwelling on whether Arab men really do hate [...]
ALEXANDRIA: Across the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, there is a peculiarly subdued behavior amongst the ultra-conservative Muslims, also known as ‘Salafis’. Their characteristic certainty and preaching has been replaced with a somewhat stoic expression of disorientation and withdrawal. This feeling goes deeper than the recent disqualification of Salafist presidential candidate Hazem Salah Abu Ismail. It [...]
It is easy to forget that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and the ultra-conservative al-Nour Party won a democratic vote in Egypt. Yes, they won fair and square. Quite sad really. The media, and the online activist community – those who love to shout – have been quick to point at the [...]
Journalists should be protected. They should not face violence or arrest for doing their job. In Egypt, this is the farthest from the truth, where yet again this past week we saw reporters beaten, attacked and ultimately arrested by the military junta in Egypt that time and time again is unwilling to promote the very [...]
New Delhi: Tsk tsk Uttar Pradesh. The original badlands of India has once again lived up to its reputation. This time a top Indian policeman has been caught on camera endorsing ‘honor killing’. The crass comments of the elite Indian Police Service (IPS) officer have stirred the interest of a nation, which has been wracked [...]
On October 29, 1923 Turkey gained its sovereignty and the Republic was duly declared. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was the revolutionary army officer who spearheaded Turkey’s independence following the Turkish War of Independence. He also served as its first president. Ataturk’s creation and development of a strong Constitution in 1924 was one of his greatest achievements. [...]
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