Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
One of the interesting subplots to the Egyptian revolution is the fate of ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahmān, known as the Blind Shaykh, who is incarcerated in America for his role in organizing the 1993 attempt to blow up the World Trade Center. His family has maintained a small sit-in protest outside the US...
Date of source: Monday, October 8, 2007
An American study emphasizes that U.S. battle against extremism should be carried out by supporting democratization, even if this leads to moderate Islamists coming to power because they can be a wall of defense against extremists and hardliners.
Date of source:
Two events led Al-Usboa, Al-Arabi and Watani to comment on the issue of democracy and the American intervention in the domestic affairs of Egypt. These events are the decision of the US Senate to allocate $2 million, cut from the American aid to Egypt, to Saad Eddin Ibrahim and his Ibn Khaldoun...
Date of source: Thursday, June 22, 2006
The National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs (NDI),
currently headed by the former U.S. secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, has
recently declared that it chose
Cairo as the headquarters of a U.S. center, which it says will disseminate
democracy in the Middle East and help...
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
The authors write about all Egyptian parties’ rejection to deal with the American International Republican Institute (IRI) except one party, the Social Constitutional Party, whose leader, Mamdouh Qināwī, welcomed cooperation with the American institution.
Date of source: Saturday, May 26, 2001 to Friday, June 1, 2001
The 1990s witnessed a confrontation between international organizations trying to work in Egypt and law 32/1964, preventing founding NGOs receiving foreign finances. Since most of the activists are lawyers, they began digging inside the body of the law to find legal ways of doing this. Tens of NGOs...
Date of source: Sunday, August 20, 2000
It was our obligation to hear Dr. Saad’s side of the story, in which he affirms emphatically that there were no political grounds or in fact real reasons for his arrest. Furthermore, he states that the accusations made against him are baseless and that his release on bail is due to the fact that...