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"The International Olympic Committee is not supporting calls for a ban on the three Islamic countries that have never included women in their national teams, but it is talking with them and hopes to see progress as the London 2012 games…

June 16, 2011 By Matthew Mainen In his speech on the Arab Awakening, President Obama not only referenced U.S. revolutionary defiance against the despotic King George III but also Rosa Parks’ catalyzing defiance of U.S. segregation.…

June 15, 2011. Patrick Madden reports. Listen Here. "Dressed in a pink shirt and armed with a bullhorn, Tigh Barry, a protester from San Francisco, easily attracts the attention of one motorist driving by when he shouts for them to pull…

June 16, 2011 WJLA covers a protest outside the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC in support of the June 17th initiative. http://wj.la/kd0lQz

May 20, 2011   By Matthew Mainen President Obama’s speech on the Arab Awakening presented a rare opportunity of catapulting American leadership in the Mideast. Unfortunately, little more than platitudes were offered. We heard…

The following is the full text of the draft constitution being voted on by Iraqis in Saturday's referendum. It was translated from the Arabic by the United Nation's Office for Constitutional Support, and the translation was approved by…

Arab uprisings against unpopular Western-backed rulers have undercut the arguments of some Western intellectuals about passive populations who are not prepared to fight for democracy. During the 2003 US invasion of Iraq,…

CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab uprisings against unpopular Western-backed rulers have undercut the arguments of some Western intellectuals about passive populations who are not prepared to fight for democracy. During the 2003 U.S. invasion of…

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - January 19th marked another year for the longest religious imprisonment of a man in Saudi Arabia: one of the world's most religiously extreme countries, where the international and local media took stance on this…

In his June 2009 Cairo speech on US-Islamic reconciliation, President Obama dedicated 1,020 words to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, only 375 to promoting democratic ideals. That reflected a U-turn from the priorities of…