The Martyr Marwa and the Double Standards of the Middle East At the funeral event, thousands of people in Alexandria transformed her funeral to a popular event, the body of Marwa El-Sherbini, assassinated last Wednesday by a German extremist of Russian origin

The bombshells of fanaticism keep on dropping. Amid the explosions and moral carnage several questions beg answers. Why now? In whose interest is the confusion and efforts to disintegrate the national

The Egyptian Gazette of October 29,1954 reported the arrest of Ikhwan 'Secret Group '.As a follow-up,The Egyptian Gazette of October 31, 1954 carried a front-page report headlined:Brothers planned

Rimon Saleh Adly Abdullah is a young doctor from the town of Maragha in Sohag, Upper Egypt. Abdullah earned a degree in medicine from Sohag University in September 2004; he graduated with a general

A pack of shoppers swarm supermarket shelves, cheerfully snapping up packages of prepared lasagna, ravioli and paella as they sing the products' praises. Sounds just like a normal evening TV ad. And it is, only this one features ethnic-Arab actors in a commercial for halal food in France. A first in its

The Jihadi attacks against New York and Washington created an unforgettable date in the collective psyche of Americans: this nation was bled by men indoctrinated by an ideology that, both in its texts and in its actions, knows no mercy for free societies. The terrifying three numbers and a hyphen 9-11 took their place in the country's national identity, alongside Pearl Harbor in the high drama of American history.