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GWOT: Egypt

There’s a story that when the news arrived that airplanes had flown into the World Trade Center, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak turned to one of his aides and said, "My

Press Release: Top-Down Political Reform in Arab World Prolongs Stagnation

Despite passing considerable economic and social reforms Arab regimes continue to avoid substantive political reforms that would jeopardize their own power

Hamas on Its 20th Anniversary

Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has recently marked its twentieth anniversary. It was founded on Dec, 14th, 2007. Historically speaking, the movement was founded decades before this declared date of foundation.

Is The Islamic Project Backpedaling?

Whenever an Islamic experience faces a failure whether it is resulting from the Islamic movement itself or due to external factors, like what happened to Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood in latest

Egypt’s YouTube Democrats

Is the cause of liberal democracy in the Arab Middle East dead? It would be easy to jump to such a conclusion in Washington, given the Bush administration’s shameless retreat

A case of selective hearing

In her opinion page article on Dec. 8, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch legislator and author of "Infidel," accused the so-called "moderate" Muslims of remaining silent instead of condemning