The Egyptian Batel (Void) campaign accused the Egyptian regime of negligence and called for providing quarantine places in every Egyptian governorate The Batel campaign called on the Egyptian government to take a set of urgent [ More … ]
Batel (Void) online campaign that was launched by some Egyptian opposition figures from across the political spectrum to counter-act Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi’s push to change Egypt’s Constitution, late Monday posted a statement on its Facebook [ More … ]
Despite blocking, the campaign had attracted more than 500,000 votes online opposing constitutional changes For the seventh time round, the Egyptian authorities on Wednesday morning blocked the new site of the anti-constitutional amendments “Batel” electronic [ More … ]
Mohammed bin Salman’s effort to burnish his image as a modernizing force of liberal reform knows no boundaries. On January 15, 2019, The New Yorker, an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, [ More … ]
Egyptian politicians and oppositionists in the United States underestimated the effectiveness of attempts by the regime of the coup leader, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, to influence the position of the US Congress against the Muslim Brotherhood, [ More … ]
By: Ayşe Sözen* Turning the members of the Islamic world against each other with “threats of national security” will be the deepest destruction and longest-lasting harm that the West has inflicted on this region since the [ More … ]
A team of Palestinian diplomats have launched a social media campaign under the hashtag #Occupationis to raise awareness on the realities of Israel’s ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territory, ahead of the 50th anniversary of [ More … ]
Qatar said it had been deliberately targeted ahead of Trump’s visit to the region Qatar says it’s the subject of an ‘orchestrated campaign’ to tarnish the image of the emirate, following a series of negative [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* It seems that the constitutional amendment to be put to a referendum on April 16, concerns certain world centers more than it does the people of Turkey. Every day we are seeing how [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* They can no longer interfere in Turkey using terror organizations, terror attacks or murders. They can’t threaten Turkey using the PKK, FETÖ or the DHKP-C. Nor can they direct Turkey through the ‘people’ [ More … ]
The ruling Justice and Development (AK Party) Party launched its campaign for the April 16 constitutional reform referendum with a colorful ceremony in the capital Ankara, with the attendance of around 40,000 people from all [ More … ]
We would also like to see ages of ministers going down to 18 from 25 years, Turkish president says President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has voiced his support for the constitutional change that would lower the [ More … ]
A group of Egyptian youth have organized – in coordination with students from different nationalities – a campaign that calls for the release of the student ‘Israa Khaled Saeed’. A number of videos in more [ More … ]
A virtual conference, parallel to al-Sisi ‘s Sharm al-Sheikh Conference “Youth Conference”, was held on the social networking sites, where Egyptian activists launched the hashtag #Al-Shabab Fein? (#Where_Have_The_Young_Ones_Gone?) The Hashtag was ordered the first on Twitter [ More … ]
Two local coalitions for human rights have led a joint campaign against the practice of solitary confinement in Egyptian prisons. The campaign is expected to last for one month. The campaign led by “Freedom for [ More … ]
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