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An Open Letter to Jim Nicola, Artistic Director, New York Theater Workshop
Dear Mr. Nicola:

I write an open letter to enco..

Watch the video of this Special Policy Forum
On March 3, 2006, Marc Otte, Patrick Clawson, and David Makovsky addressed The Washington Institute’s Special Policy Forum. Ambassador Otte is the European Union’s special representative for the Middle East peace process. Dr. Clawson, The Washington Institute’s deputy director for research, is author with Zoe Danon Gedal of the Institute monograp..

Observers of the process of political reform in Egypt would easily notice that it is invariably a function of the temperament and mindset of one single individual in the governing regime. It is that individual who permits or forbids, who orders or prevents, who simply takes charge of everything.

 Anything that takes place is by virtue of his orders, in the absence of the governing ..

On March, 8th, Coptic intellectual Melad Hanna told the independent daily Al-Misery al-Yaum that he will leave Egypt in the event of the Muslim Brotherhood comes to power.

 These statements coincided with the recent major rise of islamic movements in Egypt and Palestine which stirred reactions concerning their creditability and background.

Does the fear o..

Today, the Muslim Brotherhood’s MP Ahmed Abu Baraka introducesd the first integrated bill of the Brotherhood before the ongoing parliament.

The bill which consists of 19 articles regulates the system of political parties.

This bill is a modified vision of a previous draft law, prepared by Yahia el-Gamal, a professor of Constitutional Law.

The amended bill was been subm..

Two subjects related to the Muslim Brotherhood have been among the most important developments in Arab politics over the past year. These are, first, the progress they achieved in the Egyptian parliamentary elections, and, second, the success of Hamas, which is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), in obtaining the majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council and th..

Hamady El-Jebaly, an influential leader of Tunisian El-Nahda Islamic Movement, asserted that his movement welcomes dialogue and blamed the government for rejecting the offer so far. He said the Islamic Movement in Tunisia does not monopolize Islam and never claimed to be its sole representative.

El-Jebaly who has served 15-year imprisonment for conspiracy charges to threaten state secur..

During the last decade, Islamist movements have established themselves as major political players in the Middle East. Together with the governments, Islamist movements, moderate as well as radical, will determine how the politics of the region unfold in the foreseeable future. They have shown the ability not only to craft messages with widespread popular appeal but also, and most importantl..

IN A DEC. 7 panel organized by the United States-Egypt Friendship Society (USEF), and held at the Carnegie Endowment for International Democracyin Washington, DC, Ambassador Nicholas Veliotes, chairman of USEF, asked Drs. Nathan Brown and Amr Hamzawy, both senior associates at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to discuss the two camps which have formed in response to Egypt’s recen..

Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan is the idol of the Parisian suburbs. He is fighting for a modern Islam and against what he calls "Jewish intellectuals". Now the US administration has revoked his visa. By Jörg Lau

 My attempts to hold an uninterrupted conversation with a 42-year-old man with designer stubble in a ca..

A reminder that Israel’s asassination policy goes way back to Count Bernadotte and Lord Moyne for which they received half of Palestine as a reward.

jack.straw@fco.gov.uk

Dear Mr. Straw:
 
Israel sets a precedent in carrying out assassinations on the grounds of fighting terrorism, randomly killing anyone, even though it i..