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There was an extraordinary conversation on the BBC Radio 4 programme, The World This Weekend, yesterday, in which a prominent American neoconservative claimed that European governments have been "penetrated" by the Muslim Brotherhood.
On Wednesday, the European parliament will be voting on a re-… Read more
The body of a Yemeni army officer was found in the Khanfar district of Abyan province yesterday, "close to the site of the army unit in which he served," according to a local official. He had been shot.
In a similar incident on Thursday, also in Abyan province, an intelligence officer was… Read more
A five-storey building fell down in Cairo on Friday, killing up to eight people who were inside. The accident happened in Abdel Fattah Nasser Street in the city's Shubra district.
Collapses of buildings are a frequent occurrence in Egypt. Regarding the latest accident, al-Masry al-Youm says… Read more
Writing in the Saudi-owned paper, as-Sharq al-Awsat, Hussein Shobokshi discusses the recent visit to Syria by senior figures from leading American IT companies: Microsoft, Dell, Cisco Systems and Symantec.
He points out that the ability of these companies to do business in Syria… Read more
Tension continues in northern Yemen, where a truce was called in February between the government and the Houthi rebels.
The interior ministry said yesterday that rebels attacked the home of Ibn Aziz, a tribal leader in Harf Sufyan, killing three people. Ibn Aziz, who survived the attack, is a… Read more
The Muslim Brotherhood (known in Arabic as "al-Ikhwan") is engaged in a rather curious project to duplicate some of the world's most popular websites with its own "Ikhwan" versions.
So far, these include Ikhwan Wiki (resembling Wikipedia), Ikhwan Tube and Ikhwan… Read more
The UN secretary-general is due to issue one of his periodic reports on the implementation (or not) of Security Councilresolution 1701 which brought a ceasefire in the 2006 conflict with Israel.
Hizbullah is clearly not in full compliance (it was supposed to be disarmed) but neither is… Read more
A new and potentially important development in the case of Khaled Said, the 28-year-old Egyptian who died after being brutally beatenby police. The district attorney in Alexandria has now ordered two officers from Sidi Gabr police station – Mahmoud Salah Mahmoud and Awad Ismail Suliman –… Read more
The 2010 Failed States Index – an annual collaboration between Foreign Policy and The Fund for Peace – lists four Arab countries in the "critical" category.
Somalia, once again, is the world's most failed state, with Sudan in third place, followed by Iraq (7) and Yemen (15 - three places… Read more
A 38-year-old Eritrean woman was shot and killed by Egyptian border guards while trying to cross into Israel, Reuters reports. Two other women and a child were arrested.
According security sources, the dead woman was shot three times – in the stomach, right arm and left hand.
More than 60… Read more
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
