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This post asks why the Arab world is so backwards, not Arabs. So for those looking for a racist post attacking Arabs, go somewhere else.

While Arabs are, of course, innately no different than other people, their region has fallen behind the rest of...

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The authoritarian regime of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak recently suffered a great indignity in Western eyes (they suffer an indignity everyday in front of Egyptian and...
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A baby’s wail echoed across the plaza. His mother’s face was etched with joy as she struggled to subdue her writhing infant. The children who had gathered around...
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I recently wrote about how Westerns often overstated the importance of Egypt’s al-Azhar University - the most authoritative voice in Sunni Islam. al-Azhar, which...
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They are a desert king and a military officer-turned-president. Drive through their capitals and their images glow from billboards and painted walls, old men with their...
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Western commentators on Islam and the Middle East often overstate the importance of al-Azhar University in Cairo. The oldest educational institution in Islam and...
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Egypt’s Al-Azhar university said Thursday it would ban the niqab or face veil from female classrooms and dormitories, according to AFP. “The Supreme...
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Reporting from Cairo - Whether it’s seen as a clever little gadget to help a woman keep a secret or a devilish deception that threatens Islam, the Artificial...
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Egypt’s highest Muslim authority has said he will issue a religious edict against the growing trend for full women’s veils, known as the niqab. Sheikh...
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Every timing is priceless for the living, our’s madly-fast controversially-challenging the generation-established myths surely. Just news of the US judge Herman...
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“Look, that’s where the swine flu is going to come from,” said a weary Marzouka Beshir, pointing to a pile of rubbish rotting under the blazing sun in...
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A former high-level aide to Sen. Barbara Boxer has been sentenced to five years in prison on child pornography charges.

 
 
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The Egyptian government is using swine flu as an excuse to get rid of tens of thousands of pigs raised by garbage collectors who live amid the refuse in Cairo slums. But the move has prompted accusations Monday that Muslims are attacking minority Christia

 
 
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Reporters Without Borders says the American journalist on a hunger strike for two weeks to protest her imprisonment in Iran was briefly hospitalized after she intensified her fast by refusing to drink water.

 
 
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Egyptian police and armored cars charged into a crowd of a 1,000 irate pig farmers armed with stones and bottles, leaving 12 people injured as residents of a Cairo slum resisted government efforts to slaughter the nation’s pigs to guard against swine flu.

 
 
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An Iranian presidential candidate who is wanted by Interpol in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina said Sunday he is willing to cooperate with the U.S. on regional security matters if elected.

 
 
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Prosecutors moved Friday to dismiss all charges against two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of disclosing U.S. defense secrets, ending a four-year legal battle that promised to put former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other Bush administrati

 
 
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Federal prosecutors moved Friday to dismiss espionage-related charges against two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of disclosing classified U.S. defense information, ending a tortuous inside-the-Beltway legal battle rife with national security intrigue

 
 
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Federal prosecutors moved Friday to dismiss espionage-related charges against two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of disclosing classified defense information, ending a tortuous inside-the-Beltway legal battle rife with national security intrigue.

 
 
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Federal prosecutors are moving to dismiss espionage-related charges against two former pro-Israel lobbyists who had been accused of disclosing classified defense information.

 
 
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An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $13,000, her lawyer said Thursday.

 
 
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