NOVANEWS Brother: ‘Surely he is still in jail but we don’t know where and we cannot communicate with him’ – Sarah Lazare Words of solidarity from Abdullah Elshamy’s colleagues (Photo: Abdullah Elshamy Twitter account)Al Jazeera […]
NOVANEWS Reform or Repression? by CARL FINAMORE Egypt remains in a heightened state of political turmoil. Since the mass popular revolt in Feb. 2011 that toppled the dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, there have been four […]
NOVANEWS Exchanging Roles in a tumultuous Middle East by FAIDI ELHUSSEINI After less than a year of exceptional Egyptian-Turkish rapprochement, the events of June 30, 2013 ruptured this relationship. Similarly, when Egyptian and Iranian statesmen […]
NOVANEWS Jpost Egypt’s al-Azhar Grand Sheikh, Ahmed el-Tayeb, a top authority for many of the world’s Sunni Muslims, said that the Arab Spring is a plot to “destroy and divide countries.” “Some Arab spring revolutions […]
NOVANEWS The Egyptian Gazette By Mohssen Arishie Fundamentalist organisations, wealthy political activists and newly founded political parties, financed by prosperous businessmen, are competing to launch private television channels. In addition to broadcasting the political attitudes […]
NOVANEWS Ex-FM Zionist agent Amr Moussa supports Palestinian reconciliation, but says Gaza-based Hamas should back the 2002 Arab initiative Palestinian mourners wave the green flag of the Islamist movement Hamas at a funeral on April […]
NOVANEWS An Eight-Minute Trial, with No Arguments for the Defense, and One Judge Sentences 683 People to Death by PATRICK COCKBURN After an eight-minute trial a judge in Egypt has sentenced to death 683 alleged […]
NOVANEWS Suspects accused of gathering information in advance of presidential elections. Times of Israel Egyptian government officials announced Sunday that they had captured an espionage network in the country that was working for several foreign […]
NOVANEWS Spokesman urges Muslims around the world to fight the United States An Egyptian waves a national flag over a pro-military rally marking the third anniversary of the 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square in Cairo, […]
NOVANEWS As demonstrators protested outside and the State Department condemned the latest Egyptian death sentences of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy sought on April 28 to convince an elite Washington audience that Egypt is […]