Democracy is largely stagnant in the world and a growing number of governments exhibit hostility toward international democracy aid. Faced with this daunting context, President Obama and his foreign policy

According to Marc Lynch in The National, moderate Islamist movements‘ attempts to participate in democratic processes throughout the Arab world have been stemmed by secular authoritarian regimes

The Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy is organizing four "Train the Trainer" Workshops in Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, and Bahrain,

In a much-anticipated speech in June 2009, President Barack Obama, speaking from the Egyptian capital, sought a "new beginning" in U.S. relations with the Muslim world.

Reporting from Cairo - He doesn't seem a radical or a troublemaker, but to the Egyptian government, Abdel Fattah Rizk, a surgeon with a graying mustache and hands pink from

Yesterday, in the third installment of his speaking series “Getting to Denmark: Where the State, Rule of Law and Accountable Government Come From,” Francis Fukuyama,

The U.N. Human Rights Council, a body the U.S. only recently joined, passed a resolution on freedom of expression on Friday co-sponsored by the U.S. and Egypt. The Obama administration

Canadian political scientist Nader Hashemi travels through history to make his points about the Islam of today

The German television aired an interview with Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Mohamed Mahdi Akef on September 4, 2006, in which Mr. Chairman explained how Islam puts freedoms ahead of implementing Islamic law (Sharia) in