Articles tagged with: Egypt
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 …
OTTAWA – Canadian intelligence agents went to Egypt to get information about a Toronto man and likely contributed to his abuse by authorities there, newly released documents say.
The previously unknown visit by CSIS officers became …
By Christian C. Sahner
The controversial Tariq Ramadan’s latest book promotes a “Western” version of Islam. Is he the “Muslim Martin Luther”?
Late last month, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton lifted a six-year visa ban on the …
For immediate release
(Ottawa, December 3, 2009) The majority of the House of Commons has just voted in favour of compensation and a formal apology for three Canadian Muslim men who were detained and tortured overseas.
The …
By RACHEL DONADIO
MILAN — In a landmark ruling, an Italian judge on Wednesday convicted a base chief for the Central Intelligence Agency and 22 other Americans, almost all C.I.A. operatives, of kidnapping a Muslim cleric …
From Amnesty International
MILAN, ITALY – The convictions of US and Italian intelligence agents for their involvement in the abduction of Usama Mostafa Hassan Nasr (better known as Abu Omar) mark a step toward accountability for …
By Christine Kearney
NEW YORK – The U.S. government will pay $1.26 million to five Muslim men detained for months without charges after the September 11 attacks who sued for unlawful imprisonment and abuse, their lawyers …
By Jim Bronskill
OTTAWA — A dispute rages over secret portions of an inquiry report on the overseas torture of three Canadians one year after release of the document, which criticizes the actions of security …
By Jim Bronskill
The federal government denies responsibility for the overseas imprisonment and torture of three Canadians, despite a commission of inquiry report that parcelled out blame to CSIS, the RCMP and Foreign Affairs.
In newly filed …
By Faisal Kutty
Writing in Persuasive Authorities
I had the honour of spending a few days last week with a number of constitutional scholars at the International Association of Law Schools conference on Constitutional Law held jointly …
By Fawaz Gerges
ISPU Fellow
After smiling broadly for the TV cameras and complimenting one another, U.S. President Barack Obama and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak provided little food for thought about what really transpired between them in …
By Nader Hashemi
On June 4, 2009, President Obama will travel to Egypt to deliver his long-awaited speech on relations between the United States and the Muslim world. From the outset the venue has been …
By Haroon Siddiqui
There was the American overreach under George W. Bush. Now there’s Barack Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world.
On Wednesday, he will be in Saudi Arabia to meet King Abdullah. On Thursday, he …
By David Schenker
Publisher: Washington Institute for Near East Peace
The article asserts that the Middle East is racked with divisions, but that the fissures run much deeper than personal animosity.
The Arab world is embroiled in a …
