Date of source: Sunday, November 27, 2005
This article discusses how the crushing of leftist, secularist, democratic and nationalist organizations and movements in some Arab countries, including Egypt, weakens civil society and could encourage extremism.
Date of source: Sunday, November 6, 2005
Yāsīn al-Hāj Sālih argues that we should move to more positive concepts that involve lofty values like freedom, national solidarity, equality in all political rights and openness to the world, and that nationalism should be re-evaluated to decrease sectarianism.