Microcredit’s odd link to police brutality.
Tahrir Square a Product, in Part, of the Perversion of Microcredit
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Human Rights
Interview with the Islamic Human Rights Commission
Massoud Shadjareh is the chair and Arzu Merali the director of research of the Islamic Human Rights Commission in London, which was established in 1997. They talked with FPIF in December about Islamophobia in the United Kingdom, the rise of the far right, and the Prevent Terrorism initiative of the British government
The Egyptian Protests Are a Many Constituencied Thing
When it comes to translating the protests into lasting social change, traditional organizers will be essential.
The Egyptian Army: Make Money, Not War
The Egyptian army is outraged by how Mubarak and his son have sold out the country’s economy.
Why Egypt Will Not Turn Into Another Iran
Some prominent congressional leaders and media pundits, in a cynical effort to mislead the American public into supporting the Egyptian dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak and opposing the popular nonviolent struggle for democracy, have raised the specter of Egypt’s government falling into the hands of radical Islamists who would attack Israel and support international terrorism. To illustrate this frightening scenario, these apologists for authoritarianism try to compare the current pro-democracy uprising against the U.S.-backed Egyptian dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak with the 1978-79 insurrection against the U.S.-backed Iranian dictatorship of Shah Reza Pahlavi.
The Irish Elections and the Ghost of Padraic Pearse
Those in charge of the IMF and EU might do well to heed the words of the Irish poet and revolutionary.
WikiLeaks: Just in Case You Were Concerned, Suleiman “Not Squeamish” About Torture
Not only wasn’t Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman squeamish, but when it came to torture, he wasn’t too proud to get his hands dirty.
Fiction Blossoms into Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution
As I try to grasp the full meaning of the Tunisian Revolution and to gauge its future, I am looking at my desk where I have spread two issues of The New York Times, both featuring Tunisia on their front pages. The two issues are dated 23 years apart.
Washington’s Support for Another Military Leader in Egypt Will Only Firm up Protesters’ Resolve
How does the United States reach the other end of the tightrope it’s supposedly walking with Egypt?
The S Word
A nation is like a marriage, or so Lenin imagined it to be, with each partner or province having a right to get out if things go horribly wrong. The Soviet constitution of 1918 provided this right to each of the republics. It wasn’t an innovation that many other countries followed. And yet, constitutional provisions or not, the S word – secession – has occasionally brought nations to the brink of dissolution.