Democracy Digest, 9/1/2010 Egyptian democracy advocates today warned that the Obama Administration will jeopardize prospects for Middle East peace and boost the region’s “dark forces” if it colludes in the dynastic succession of President Hosni Mubarak’s son. The U.S. shoul...

TIME, 9/2/2010 One fascinating subplot of the Middle East peace talks in Washington this week is the role of Egyptian president/dictator Hosni Mubarak. The 82-year old Mubarak, who has long governed Egypt with an iron fist--but has served as a useful strategic partner for America--is very old, visi...

 The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 01, 2010 Readout of President Obama's Meeting with President Mubarak of Egypt President Obama and President Mubarak met today and reaffirmed the strong ties between Egypt and the United States of America. The ...

 By Marwa Al-A’sar / Daily News Egypt August 30, 2010 CAIRO: The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council has selected prominent activist Aida Seif El-Dawla among four nominees for the position of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR...

 CAIRO Aug 21 2010 (Reuters) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has accepted an invitation by the United States to attend the launch of direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians that aim to reach a peace deal within 12 months, state media said. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said...

Wall Street Journal, 8/18/2010 What do the controversies around the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, the eviction of American missionaries from Morocco earlier this year, the minaret ban in Switzerland last year, and the recent burka ban in France have in common? All four are framed in the Western...

 by James Parks, Aug 9, 2010 - AFL-CIO blog AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker congratulates Kamal Abbas, left, and Kamal Abu Eita. The two accepted the Meany-Kirkland Award on behalf of Egypt’s trade union movement. The first recorded workers’ strike was more ...

Wall Street Journal, 8/4/2010 After Russian police in Moscow this weekend made headlines by beating up and arresting pro-democracy demonstrators, the Obama White House expressed its "concern." It was a pretty good statement. Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain issued a s...

LA Times, 7/28/10 Reporting from Washington — Fifteen young American religious scholars and 14 teaching assistants from Al Azhar University, one of the oldest and most influential Islamic institutions in the world, spent two weeks together this month at Georgetown University in an attempt to ...

7/28/10, CAIRO (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday Egypt should be able to conduct fair elections and he called for a full investigation into the death in police custody of an anti-corruption activist. Egypt, a U.S. ally in the Middle East, is to hold a parliamentary ele...

Queen Elizabeth II, monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and The Empire possessions overseas, head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith, by the grace of God head of the Church of England, and other titles bestowed upon your majesty. Is your majesty content to ...

The Economist, 7/15/10 WOULD-BE rulers of the world have always coveted Egypt, and for good reason. Rich in resources and in a choice position, it is also easily controlled, with no forests or mountains for rebels to lurk in. The Assyrians, Persians, Greeks and Romans all grabbed it. So did Muslim ...

By Daniel Huff - Published July 06, 2010 | FoxNews.com The Declaration of Independence did more than dissolve the bonds with England. It put the world on notice that America is sovereign; that the rights of its citizens will not be dictated by foreign powers. That is why it is hard to belie...

 UN News Center 21 June 2010 – Thailand’s Ambassador to the United Nations Office in Geneva was today named as the newest President of the UN Human Rights Council, the panel established in 2006 to tackle human rights violations worldwide. Sihasak Phuangketkeow becomes the fifth p...

New Yorker, 5/17/10 Last June, in Cairo, President Barack Obama, at the heart of his speech to the Islamic world, enumerated the many issues that have created tension between the United States and Muslim nations. “The fourth issue that I will address is democracy,” he said, and continue...

Almasry Alyoum, 6/23/10 National Association for Change (NAC) leader Mohamed ElBaradei declared Tuesday that Egypt's presence near the top of Foreign Policy's Failed States Index was a "disaster" that demanded the urgent attention of the Egyptian people. ElBaradei noted that the compiler...

A continent away from Kyrgyzstan, Africans like myself cheered this spring as a coalition of opposition groups ousted the country's dictator, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. "One coconut down, 39 more to harvest!" we shouted. There are at least 40 dictators around the world today, and approxi...

Washington Post, June 15, 2010 When a billboard appeared outside a small Minnesota town early this year showing a picture of George W. Bush and the words "Miss me yet?" the irony was not lost on many in the Arab world. Most Americans may not miss Bush, but a growing number of people in ...

 By Neil Hicks, 6/3/2010 - The Huffington Post This week, one year after President Obama's "remarks to the Muslim world" delivered at Cairo University on June 4, 2009, Egypt has made little or no progress in political reform, human rights or democracy advancement. In fact, there has ...

By J. Scott Carpenter and Dina Guirguis - WINEP - June 2, 2010 Although likely eclipsed in the media by recent Israeli naval action against blockade runners, the first anniversary of President Obama's much-quoted address in Cairo occurs on June 4. In his remarks, described as a "new begin...

 The Huffington Post, 6/2/10 - By Sherif Mansour One year ago, President Obama addressed the Muslim world in a speech in Cairo, in which he professed his commitment to democracy and human rights as well as respectful engagement. Activists across the region, who have faced enormous obstacles in...

Almasry Alyoum, 5/25/10 The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) plans to send Omar Haridi, a prominent NDP leader and member of Lawyers Syndicate, to the US by the end of the month for talks with leaders of the Coptic diaspora about fielding more coptic candidates in the upcoming parliamentary e...

 Editor's note: Kai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer. He has also won the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent book is "Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978." 5/26/10 (CNN) -- Arab modernity. Why i...

Wall Street Journal, 5/17/10 The term Empty Quarter refers to a desolate stretch of land in the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. More recently it is aptly used as a metaphor to refer to the quarter of the Muslim world that is still undemocratic. Other Muslim majority countries, such as...

AFP, 5/18/10 ROME — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arrived in Rome Tuesday on his first trip abroad since undergoing surgery in March, airport news agency Telenews said. Mubarak, accompanied by several ministers, arrived on an Airbus A340 at Rome's Fiumicino airport amid heavy security, ...

Reuters, 5/19/2010 Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's 82-year-old president, sidestepped a question on Wednesday on who his successor might be, saying only God could decide who would lead the Arab world's most populous nation following his 29-year rule. Uncertainty over Egypt's political future is intensifyin...

Yahoo! News, 5/19/2010 ROME - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Wednesday Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak looked "in great shape" at a joint press conference after undergoing surgery in March. Berlusconi, 73, said the 82-year-old Mubarak "is still a young man." ...

Translated by Ed Shafik for CAA from the original by Jamal Gergis El Mezahem published on 5/14/2010 in Youm7 The Canadian Government has instituted an annual solidarity day, the 22nd April, on which the living conditions of the Copts in Egypt will be appraised. Canada’s declaration of suppor...

الجمعة، 14 مايو 2010 كتب جمال جرجس المزاحم  قررت الحكومة الكندية تخصيص يوم 22 أبريل من كل عام للتضامن مع القضية القبطية المصرية، وهو الحدث الأول من نوعه فى تاريخ الأقباط مع أية حكومة فى العالم. وقال موقع أقباط المهجر " أقباط كوم "، إن الجالية القبطية تتمتع بسمعة حسنة داخل وطنهم فى ك...

Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC May 11, 2010 Today, the Government of Egypt announced that it is extending the State of Emergency for an additional two years. This extension is regrettable given the pledge made by the government to the Egyptian people in 2005. A broa...

 “The United States is disappointed by the Egyptian government’s decision to extend the State of Emergency which has been in effect continuously since 1981. We call on the Egyptian government to fulfill its pledge to the Egyptian people to replace the Emergency Law with a counterte...

AP, 5/12/10 - CAIRO — Egypt's foreign minister has dismissed U.S. criticism of Cairo's decision to extend its three-decade-old emergency law as "overly politicized." Ahmed Aboul Gheit says the U.S. stance reflects an ignorance of the "real situation" in Egypt. He said We...

 Almasry Alyoum, 5/10/10 The European Parliament (EP) must employ its financial leverage to press Egypt to improve its human rights record ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections, prominent Egyptian advocacy groups said Monday. Speaking before the EP’s Sub-Committee on Human R...

 By Kristina Kausch for FRIDE, 5/4/10 Egypt is at a critical juncture. In the run-up to the election marathon of 2009–10, destined to determine both the future role of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egyptian politics and succession to the incumbent autocratic president Hosni Mubarak, the coun...

Toronto Sun, 4/25/10 As battered air travellers struggle to recover from Iceland’s volcanic big bang, another explosion is building up. This time, it’s a political one that could rock the entire Mideast, where rumours of war involving the U.S., Syria, Israel and Iran are intensifying. ...

AlMasry Alyoum, 4/29/10 Mohamed ElBaradei, leader of the pro-reform National Association for Change and possible presidential candidate, has launched a fierce attack against the Egyptian regime describing it as "vicious" and asserting that he will not participate in a debate with it or b...

The National, By Matt Bradley, Foreign Correspondent - April 26 2010 CAIRO // Mohammed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and a presidential hopeful in Egypt’s 2011 elections, is visiting the United States this week to lecture about nuclear non-prolife...

Washington Post, 4/29/10 By Leonard Leo - Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom It's early December 2009 and a U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) delegation arrives in Sudan to assess the conditions prior to the scheduled April countrywide elections. The...

The Huffington Post, 4/27/10 Egypt is facing a potential political eruption that could rock the entire Mideast and seriously undermine US domination of the strategic region. This threat comes as tensions in the Mideast are already extremely high. Threats of war involving US, Israel, Syria, Lebanon...

Foreign Policy, 4/26/10 - By Jamie Fly As Will points out, U.S. policy toward Egypt is in serious need of an overhaul. An example of this was a State Department announcement on April 16 that Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero would be travelling to Egypt, Jordan, Israel, a...

News24 - 4/21/10 Cairo - A UN expert called on Wednesday for Egypt to take more action to combat human trafficking, laying out a list of social ills running from child labour to sexual exploitation. Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, the UN special rapporteur on trafficking in persons, was speaking as she wrapped ...

 أكد الدكتور على البرادعى شقيق الدكتور محمد البرادعى المدير السابق للوكالة الدولية للطاقة الذرية، أنه سيغادر القاهرة متوجهاً لأمريكا خلال أيام قليلة، فيما أكد مصدر لليوم السابع أنه سيغادر الجمعة القاهرة من أجل لقاء عدد من أنصاره بأمريكا ومؤيدى عملية التغيير. فيما ينظر مجلس الدولة بسموحة فى الإ...

 AFP, 4/7/10 The United States on Wednesday said it was "deeply concerned" about the arrests in Egypt of scores of opposition activists, and urged the Cairo government to respect democratic rights. The statement issued by US State Department spokesman Philip Crowley came as Egypt on...

By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF -The Associated Press Friday, April 9, 2010 CAIRO -- Egypt has dismissed U.S. criticism of its detention of scores of protesters who rallied earlier this week in Cairo demanding constitutional reforms to allow more open elections. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said ...

Dear Madame Secretary, We, the undersigned, a bipartisan group representing a broad range of institutions, write today to urge you to promote democratic reform in Egypt in advance of the upcoming elections. We are concerned that—unless the United States takes a serious interest—Egypt wi...

 Friday, April 9, 2010 - Washington Post ON TUESDAY, scores of Egyptians -- most of them young and many of them women -- turned up on the streets of Cairo to press for peaceful political reform. They were members of the 6th of April movement and other groups that have joined a National Front...

 Matt Bradley, Foreign Correspondent, The National - April 8 2010 CAIRO // For a moment on Sunday, Egyptian politics looked a little bit like an awkward game of musical chairs. The trouble started during Easter mass at Cairo’s main Coptic Christian cathedral when Mohammed ElBarad...

Jack Shenker in Cairo - guardian.co.uk - Wednesday 31 March 2010 18.01 BST Western governments risk creating a new generation of Islamist extremists if they continue to support repressive regimes in the Middle East, the former head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, has told the Gu...

كتب ايهاب عمر العدد 1427 - الجمعة - 5 مارس 2010 نفت مارجريت سكوبي سفيرة الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية بالقاهرة وجود أجندة أمريكية فيما يخص الانتخابات الرئاسية المصرية المقبلة في 2011م حيث لا تساند مرشحا بعينه في الانتخابات . وقالت خلال المؤتمر الصحفي الذي عقدته بأسيوط عقب توقيع اتفاقية تمويل إن...

New York Times, 2/14/10 DOHA, Qatar — Nine months after President Obama held out the promise of a “new beginning” for the United States and the Muslim world, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came to this Persian Gulf emirate on Sunday to plead for patience, conceding that...