Advocates of web internationalization were delighted two weeks ago when ICANN– the non-profit corporation responsible for managing th | Read More »

The leader of the opposition al-Ghad party in Egypt, Ayman Nour, said on Wednesday that authorities had barred him from travelling to the US. | Read More »

One of Egypt's longest-serving judges and a vocal advocate of judicial independence, Mahmoud el-Khodeiri, announced his resignation as deputy chief justice of the Court of Cassation last month in prot | Read More »

A freelance Swedish journalist, Per Bjorklund, was detained at Cairo Airport and is expected to be deported after being declared a "persona non grata" by the government. | Read More »

Abd Al-Halim Qandil, coordinator for Kifaya (the Egyptian Movement for Change), announced last week that his organization | Read More »

The US and Egypt jointly submitted a draft resolution on the freedom of expression last Friday to the Secretariat of the UN Human Rights Council, diplomatic sources in Geneva told AFP. | Read More »

Both government-run and independent papers in Cairo slammed the defeat of culture minister Farouq Hosni’s bid to become head of UNESCO as proof of a "clash of civilizations" and the inordinate power | Read More »

The BBC World Service's Michael Buerk was reporting from Cairo last week on ho | Read More »

On 22 July 2009, three young bloggers affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood were detained in Cairo. | Read More »

Challenges to Democracy in Egypt | Read More »