Last week, Freedom House hosted an event featuring women activists from Egypt, Jordan and Iraq who spoke on the status of women’s rights and advancement in the region.

In October of 2009, Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi ignited a heated debate when he said the niqab was merely a tradition not linked to religion, and that women would be banned from wearing it in schools and universities.

A few days ago, an article was published on the Daily News Egypt website, about how some Egyptian women see the veil as a protection against sexual harassment on the streets. This is not a surprise, given the shocking statistics that were released a couple weeks ago that stated that 98% of foreign women and 83% of local women are sexually harassed in Egypt.

Imagine “Men in Black” meets hijabs and neon eyeliner. Dressed in identical black suits, white-collared shirts, and silver head scarves, Dwleat Nanvey and Maha Hamied are part of Egypt’s growing corps of “lady guards,” trained to provide protection to high-powered Arab women. Visitors clamped in one of the ladies’ vise-grip handshakes will notice a golden pin on her lapel – a soaring falcon, her employer’s symbol.

Egypt's High Administrative Court overturned on Wednesday a ban on female students wearing the niqab, or full face veil, in university examinations, saying it violated women's constitutional rights.

In an Arabic-speaking country, it is not uncommon to hear friends, families or coworkers communicating in foreign languages.

Today, January 13 BBC will broadcast an interview with Wael Abbas on their program HARDtalk. The program focuses on Abbas, his blog, and the political blogosphere of the Middle East in general.

Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Mr Mohamed Mahdi Akef announced that his last weekly statement as the Brotherhood's 7th Chairman will be delivered in a world-wide press conference scheduled to be held Thu

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

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.

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