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At the close of its meetings held on Monday June 6th 2006 in London, the Syrian National Salvation Front asserted it is seeking a peaceful change in Syria without foreign interference in the country ’s domestic  affairs.

For his part, Muslim Brotherhood chairman in Syria and Front member Ali Sadreddin el Bayanoni dismissed as groundless reports of the Front seeking to form a gover..

The main premise for those who argue against the withdrawal from Iraq of British as well as US occupying forces is that the move would lead to an all-out civil war.

This argument, with its echoes of imperialist, supremacist tendencies, is not only offensive; it is also bewildering to the overwhelming majority of Iraqis, who remind us that Iraq was a richly diverse nation centuries befo..

The lack of democratic breakthroughs worthy of mention in Arab countries has spurred debate about barriers to change. Much of this debate has focused on economic, social, and cultural factors, or on the fragility of political forces demanding democracy. The debate would be incomplete, however, without a discussion of the means by which authoritarian Arab regimes control their societies, particu..

The future of the Muslim Brotherhood is dependent on the fate of reform. Omayma Abdel-Latif reviews the findings of a soon to be published study

Asking what the future holds for the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition movement, is tantamount to asking what it holds for the whole of Egypt, given the centrality of the movement in the battle for political a..

E-mail debates of newsworthy topics

From: Robert Kagan
To: Amartya Sen
Subject: The Importance of Optimism
Friday, May 5, 2006, at 11:08 AM ET
Dear Dr. Sen,

Thanks very much for your thoughtful response. I don’t expect you to furnish the definitive answer to my somewhat rhetorical questions regarding the lack of evidence to refute the "..

 At least ten Palestinian people, including 3 children and 2 women were killed and 40 other were wounded Friday afternoon in four separate attacks by Israeli occupation forces on various parts of the Gaza Strip according to Palestinian sources.

Israeli artillery shells struck a group of civilians during a family picnic at a Gaza beach, killing nine people, including three children..

Israeli hospitals have threatened to stop treating a four-year-old Palestinian girl, who was seriously wounded in an IOF raid on the Gaza Strip in which her mother, sister and grandmother were killed, at the pretext of lack of funds to pay the treatment fees.

Family members beseeched legal institutions to immediately intervene to prevent the return of Maria Aman and her uncle Nahed Aman..

 Dr. Ghazi Hamad, the PA government spokesman, on Saturday announced that Prime Minister Ismail Haneya has decided to sponsor the little girl, Hadil Ghalia, who lost seven of her family members, including her mother and father, in the IOF "savage" shelling of Palestinian civilians while picnicking on the Gaza beach on Friday.

Dr. Hamad said that the premier decided t..

The Mahfouz Nahnah Third International Annual Forum will discuss the Islamic movement’s reform efforts and visions for the 21st century, which is scheduled to begin in July. Algerian Peaceful Society Movement (Hams), the MB chapter in Algeria which is sponsoring the forum, said it chose this issue out of its conviction of the challenges facing the Muslim world and the needs for change..

A June 3rd poll conducted by Near East Consulting based in Ramallah, Palestine shows that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians support the Prisoner’s Agreement, an inter-factional agreement signed by one member each of Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, and the DFLP inside Israel’s Hadarim prison this past May. (1) The document implicitly recognizes Israel by accepting, among other thi..

We belong to a small group of Arabs, Americans and Europeans who have met seven times since 2004 under the auspices of an NGO, the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue. We meet as ordinary citizens, although our American and European members have long experience in politics, government and diplomacy. The Arabs come from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and, lately, Iraq. All work for pea..

 Six Muslim Brotherhood members of parliament (MP) received an invitation from the Egyptian German Society to meet with a high..

The presence of U.S. troops in Iraq is a greater threat to Mideast stability than the government in Iran, according to a poll of European and Muslim countries.
People in Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Russia rated America’s continuing involvement in Iraq a worse problem than Iran and its nuclear ambitions, according to polling by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. V..

The Brotherhood actually are as close to modernist liberals as anyone in the spectrum of Egyptian politics will come. They resemble a European party of Christian Democrats. Yes, they emphasize the religion of Islam, but then that just reflects the practice of the people in that country. While they hardly approve of Israel, they do not intend to resume war with it or to end the peace treaty with..

One of the most striking developments in Arab politics over the past few years is the evolution of mainstream Islamist opposition groups into enthusiastic participants in – and supporters of – the democratic political process. Many Islamist leaders have even begun to define democratic procedures as the modern implementation of shura, the Islamic principle of consultation, in a sharp break from ..

Well organized structure and action within the Muslim Brotherhood group is a matter that is highly considered, with the movement mainly counting on its members and its non members who support its agenda.

The movement gains its influence within society from the activities offered by its members whose daily omnipresence with the masses draws many supporters.
Membership within the..

After 9-11, the Bush administration concluded that decades of U.S. support for non-democratic leaders in the Middle East led not to stability but rather contributed to terrorism.[1] While U.S. government support for democracy promotion is not new, such sustained attention and allocation of resources marks a new emphasis on dem..

 In the Arab world, you are lucky if you were a singer, actor or a football player, but you are destined to counter beating, humiliation , and even death if you choose to be a journalist. This is simply the state of journalism affairs in the Arab world.

Recently the report on the freedom of press in the Arab world was released by the Arab Journalists Union, synchronizing with thre..