Press Attention to Abdelkareem’s Case
Egypt’s English-language paper The Daily Star has covered Abdelkareem’s case, as has Reuter’s (in Arabic).
Victims of Rights Violations
Please Sign This Petition
My friends at HAMSA (Hands Across the Middle East Support Alliance) are about to launch an online petition for Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman. Be among the first to sign. See below…
Free Kareem
A young Egyptian blogger who has participated in programs of our Arabic liberal project, Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman, was arrested today. Some of the details are available at FreeKareem.org. When writing…
Free Speech Gags Subjected to Scrutiny
The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform is, I believe, the best book available on one of the most important issues in American political science: campaign finance restrictions. I say that…
Homosexuality in the Arab World
While checking the site Mideastyouth for information on the suppression of Bahraini bloggers, I also found an interesting interview and discussion of the treatment of homosexuality in the Arab world.
An Interrogation in the Middle East
I have just been informed by a university student who attended our conference in Cairo this August that he has been told to report tomorrow to the prosecutor’s office for…
Which Will Prove to Be Mightier: The Pen or the Pistol?
Tribute to a Searcher for Truth My friend Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard today brought to my attention a moving tribute to the murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya: “To Kill a Journalist,” by Samuel…
Dueling Censorships
ANKARA: The Turkish court system acquitted a Turkish author (who lives and teaches in America) of the crime of “denigrating Turkish national identity,” a charge supported by some remarks about…
Immigration and Freedom
My friend Constantino Diaz-Duran, now enrolled at Columbia University, has a smart and insightful essay in the Columbia Daily Spectator, “Message from an Immigrant: Please Don’t Help Us, You Missed…
Arabs and the Holocausts: Not Just Villains, but also Heroes
Robert Satloff has an interesting essay in today’s Washington Post on “The Holocaust’s Arab Heroes.” It’s starts with the usual litany of Holocaust denial from some Arab leaders, but goes…