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Opposition groups criticized the governing NDP’s decision to postpone municipal elections originally slated for this spring, but Mohamed Kamal, a leading party reformer and the architect of President Hosni Mubarak’s election campaign, says sweeping changes at the NDP last month will hasten the pace of reform
 
When President Hosni Mubarak issued a presidential decree last month calli..

On the surface, the landslide victory of Hamas, the Islamic resistance movement, in Palestinian legislative elections in January has not reflected directly on democracy in Jordan or the wider Arab world. But there is no doubt this political earthquake will eventually be considered an important milestone by Arab democracy activists.

The most obvious effect of Hamas’ victory has been with..

* Shrugs off appeal as Zawahiri’s personal ‘opinion’.
* Says Hamas will take independent decisions in the interest of Palestinians

MOSCOW: Palestinian group Hamas shrugged off a call on Sunday from Al Qaeda to keep up its fight against Israel, dismissing the appeal as an “opinion” of Ayman al-Zawahiri and saying it would only take decisions that were strictly in the interests of the ..

Kadima and Hamas, the ruling parties of Israel and Palestine, united at the weekend in burying the international road map, the blueprint for peace that was previously endorsed by the governments of Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat.

Since Hamas won the Palestinian election and refused to recognise the Jewish state, renounce violence or accept previous agreements, Ehud Olmert, Israel’s act..

Had Israel’s quarter-ton bomb been a bit bigger, Ismail Haniyeh might have gone down in history three years ago as a minor Hamas figure killed in a surgical strike aimed at the militant group’s leadership.

Instead, the fisherman’s son who survived attempted assassination, exile and imprisonment has emerged as the softer, pragmatic face of Hamas as it moves into power.

Charged wi..

Egypt’s government is cracking down on pro-reform activists, calculating that Washington’s drive to democratise the Middle East has flagged after Islamist successes in Egyptian and Palestinian elections.

The prospect of civil war in Iraq has also distracted the United States and dampened its enthu-siasm for rapid change in countries ruled by its friends, they add.

The Egyptian g..

Dialogue Forum for Development and Human Rights released an evaluative report on the freedom of expression in Egypt during the last year. According to the report, 25 verdicts have been made against journalists on opinion-related cases. In addition, 60 journalists have appeared before prosecutors for investigations and 10 have been subject to attacks because of their duty.  
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THE "DEMOCRACY backlash" is in full swing, largely because of the carnage in Iraq and the electoral success of the terrorist organization Hamas in the Palestinian Authority. In the past week our op-ed writers from right to left have expressed doubts about, or opposition to, the Bush administration’s project of encouraging democracy in the Middle East. From their and others’ arguments, three pri..

Bush’s public pronouncements on Islamic democratization take on a softer tone, as his recent trip to Pakistan showed.

President Bush has begun to soften his tone on the urgency of democratizing Muslim countries, lately choosing more cautious words that some experts say are a better match with his administration’s modest political goals for countries ranging from Morocco to ..

President Bush has said that making America more secure and defeating terrorists requires more democratic reforms in the Middle East.

Among the ways, he said during his State of the Union speech, were by ’offering the hopeful alternative of political freedom and peaceful change.’

His Greater Middle East Initiative, launched two years ago, was supposed to do just that by transfor..

Amr Khaled’s efforts to organize venues for dialogue between Muslims and Danes have put him under attack, not from Western critics, but from local religious leaders, who say Khaled’s initiative undermines their own efforts, implying the young preacher has a hidden political agenda.

Last weekend, Cairo demonstrators protested Khaled’s move. Other demonstrations throughout the country cal..

The Muslim Brotherhood has launched an awareness campaign of its own to contain the spread of bird flu and assist Egypt’s dilapidated poultry industry.  Strongly criticiz..

It seems that today the right to freedom of expression has turned into a duty to defile and desecrate Muhammad’s name. It would be impossible to vandalize freedom more viciously than this.

Muslims detect a whiff of vilification and conspiracy, and see it as an act of hostility. They believe that a collusion and conjunction between secularism and fundamentalism lies latent therein.

Since the victory of "Hamas," the Israelis and the Americans overindulged in roused babble.  They repeated and reiterated everything they previously said about "terrorism" and "destroying Israel"; and even overstressed it. They didn’t heed, even for a minute, that what they kept repeating was and is directly offensive to "Fateh" movement, which is supposed to be their privileged option. Ev..