Op-Eds

Egypt, Yemen and Morocco First among Arab States in Decline in Freedom of Expression in 2008

By | 2009-02-11T19:58:00-04:00 February 11th, 2009|Op-Eds|

Extending the emergency law, canceling al-Hiwar (the dialogue) TV channel from the list of NileSat companies, the Audio-Visual Transmission and Monitoring the Internet, the prohibition of publication in the case of Suzanne Tamim, and the imprisonment sentence against Adel Hamouda, chief editor of Al-Ahrar daily, in the case of the libel and slander against Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh.

The Assyrian Universal Alliance wrote letter to President Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden

By | 2009-02-11T10:12:00-04:00 February 11th, 2009|Op-Eds|

The Assyrian Universal Alliance wrote the following letter to President Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden to appeal for an Assyrian autonomous state in Iraq. The Assyrian Christians of Iraq continue to struggle for their indigenous rights in their ancestral homeland, Iraq. As Christians, Assyrians are the most persecuted nation in Iraq and the UN has reported the number of Assyrian refugees who fled to Syria and Jordan in the hundreds of thousands, and rising daily.

Zakzouk: Religious Channels Have Turned Muslims into World's Laughing Stock

By | 2009-02-02T06:43:00-04:00 February 2nd, 2009|Op-Eds|

Endowments Minister Mahmoud Hamdy Zakzouk said the ministry's preachers are not responsible at all for what he called "the fatwa pandemic" that has broken out in so-called religious satellite channels. He said these channels are in truth what most discredits Islam and Muslims given the backward fatwas that they spread across the globe, saying such fatwas turns Muslims into the world's laughing stock.

“Sawiris” calls on Liberals to Support the Government Against the “Muslim Brotherhood” and Underlines that the Government is Still Living Under the Mantle of “Nasser”

By | 2009-01-23T16:35:00-04:00 January 23rd, 2009|Op-Eds|

Engineer Naguib Sawiris, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Orascom Telecoms, called on the liberal political forces to support the government against the "Muslim Brotherhood", stressing that the government alone will not be able to defeat them.