Articles by
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti: Palestinian political dynamics and the realities for Middle East Peace
Toronto, Ontario, Saturday, March 20, 2010, 07:00 PM
ADDRESS
MacLeod Auditorium (Room 2158)
Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
1 King’s College Circle
Toronto, ON M5S1A8
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Admission $15, $10 …
By Carl Meyer
The government’s plan to roll out biometric passports next year has been cast in doubt after previous efforts resulted in soaring costs and revised deadlines. At the same time, privacy experts are castigating …
By Becky Akers
After eight years of bullying Americans, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) now extends its regime to Canadians.
Come December, the TSA’s Orwellian “Secure Flight” program will dictate who can and cannot board planes …
Report by Samaa Elibyari’s visit to Naima Ahmad, Monday March 8 2010
1. The context
I am sure you have been following the news about the case of Naima Ahmad, a Canadian resident of Egyptian origin living in …
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says a recent effort by a conservative advocacy website to besmirsch the reputations of current DOJ lawyers who previously represented detainees should …
By Niraj Warikoo
At a meeting in Dearborn today, Arab-Americans slammed federal law enforcement officials for targeting their community, saying a disproportionate number of prosecutions in recent years are aimed at them.
But U.S. …
By STEVEN CHASE
OTTAWA — The Harper government has always insisted it heard no warnings of torture risks facing Afghan detainees in 2006, but documents show that in the same year it was carefully …
MONTREAL – Adil Charkaoui, the Moroccan-born Montrealer detained for almost two years under a security certificate without charge or trial, is suing the federal government for $24.5 million.
Charkaoui spent years under strict …
From The Montreal Gazette
What the U.S. government should have learned from the Christmas Day bomber is to react vigorously when it is warned about an Islamicist extremist about to fly into the United States. Instead …
By Faisal Kutty
The top Sunni Muslim cleric and legal scholar Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy died of a heart attack on Wednesday (March 10, 2010) in Saudi Arabia.
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, one of the leading …
By Mark Benjamin
Self-proclaimed waterboarding fan Dick Cheney called it a no-brainer in a 2006 radio interview: Terror suspects should get a “a dunk in the water.” But recently released internal documents reveal the controversial “enhanced …
By Azeem Ibrahim
The events surrounding the terrorist attempt on Christmas Day are becoming common knowledge: how the 23-year-old alleged bomber was the son of a wealthy Nigerian financier who warned United States diplomats that his …
By John Esposito
Recent terrorist plots and attacks have escalated calls for an expansion of American military intervention abroad and increased airport security and profiling of Muslims. However, thinking and working smarter rather than harder will …
What’s Really Fueling Al-Qaeda?
ISPU Legal Fellow, Arsalan Iftikhar, interview on NPR
Arsalan Iftikhar, a Legal Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) and Ben Venzke, who monitors terrorist groups, talks about the …
