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Reform Issues December 21, 2007

Are Pakistani Generals really Mad or do they merely Feign Insanity ?

General Musharraf thought about using the atomic bomb, when provoking the « Glaciers War », in Kargil, 1999. The release of an investigative work containing this - and other worrisome
Reform IssuesReports December 21, 2007

A basis for social peace in the Arab world?

In the debate around regulatory policy (managed policy), the "principle of the social state" - that is the harmonization of social differences ("social question") - plays a key role. In
Human RightsPrisoners of Conscience December 21, 2007

Analysts Say Arab World Retreated from Democratization in 2007

Analysts and activists in the Middle East say the year 2007 in some Arab countries was marked by backtracking from the tentative moves toward more democratization and openness that had
MB in International pressOther Issues December 21, 2007

Decades After Camp David, Resistance to Normalization Endures in Egypt

The American University in Cairo is a neatly landscaped stronghold of Egypt’s ruling elite, the alma mater of the wife and children of the country’s autocratic and deeply unpopular president,
Other Issues December 21, 2007

Snitch on your servants!

Security Directions for the Safety and Security of Residents in the District of Zamalek
Islamic MovementsMB UnderstandingMB VS. QaedaPolitical Islam Studies December 21, 2007

Islamist Pragmatists Ripe for Engagement?

Abdel-Moneim Abul-Futuh, "one of the most dynamic and articulate spokesmen of the second-generation reformist faction", was among those pragmatists who stayed when the old guard’s traditionalism forced many second-generation reformers
Islamic MovementsMB Understanding December 21, 2007

Regression Prompts Debate on Brotherhood’s Trajectory

The disputes over the platform highlight the limits to the movement’s political evolution and the dominant influence of conservative salafist forces. Key figures in the Brotherhood have recently portrayed it
Reform IssuesWorkers December 21, 2007

YEARENDER: In Egypt, unrest will spill over into 2008 – corrected

In the last few months of 2007, Egypt has experienced a series of massive workers strikes, motivated by none other than poor standards of living and lack of privileges, foreboding
Other ViewsWomen December 21, 2007

Egypt’s Brotherhood: Hard Line Platform Belies Reformist Veneer

A controversial draft platform from Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is prompting a rethink amongst advocates of engaging the Islamist movement. Women and non-Muslims would be barred from becoming president and a
IraqMB VS. Qaeda December 21, 2007

How’s al-Qaeda doing? You decide

If an analyst in al-Qaeda’s intelligence services or a journalist friendly to al-Qaeda were asked to compile a roundup of news stories from 2007 that supported his sympathies, here is