Date of source: Saturday, June 11, 2005
There can never be a democracy without parties, which express political and intellectual plurality and offer a variety for the public to choose politicians and leaders.
Date of source: Sunday, January 19, 2003
The author believes that religious discourse is one of the main things that can provide support for democratic development. He focuses his argument on the Christian religious discourse.
Date of source: Sunday, July 25, 2004
In the Conference for the Priorities and Mechanisms of Reform in the Arab
world, Abdel Mon’em Abu Al-Fotouh, member of the Guidance Bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood
criticized the American democratic experience through some western and American leftist writings.
The ideology of the Muslim...
Date of source: Sunday, July 11, 2004
The Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies held a
conference about political reform in the Arab world in which the issues of democracy, political
reform, changing the constitution and the freedom of creating political parties were discussed.
The final statement proposed forming an...
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 2004
Political, social and economic reform would not be appreciated in Arab
countries unless the bureaucratic bodies and the Islamic movements were convinced this change and
its democratic and capitalist content would be worth it. Unless these two forces are convinced
that the expansion of civil...
Date of source: Friday, October 1, 2004
Holding the conference on freedom of expression at the same time of the second annual
conference of the National Democratic Party is a mere coincidence. The difference between the
official view of reformation and what the Arab intellectuals aim at, is clear. Each view seems as
if it is related...
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 2004
The leader of the Jihad organization, Aboud Al-Zomor, currently incarcerated for attempting to overthrow the regime and the assassination of former President Sadat, rejected the involvement of the Jihad group with the Taba bombings. He confirmed that leaders and members of both national and...
Date of source: Monday, July 5, 2004
Father Henk van Ruijven (68), a good personal friend of mine, suddenly passed away. Henk had dedicated his live to Egypt and was a bridge builder who will be deeply missed.
Date of source: Monday, October 18, 2004
Young researcher Hussam Tamam said in one of the most
significant studies on the international Muslim Brotherhood that the organization is heading
towards a comprehensive collapse due to a number of blows it has recently received.
Al-Usboa
newspaper reviews the research.
- See art. 19: US's...
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 2004
For more than twenty
-five years, Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim has been participating in making events all over the Arab
World. He propagated the culture of human rights when he first founded The Arab Organization for
Human Rights. He then embraced the cause of minorities in his conference in 1994 on...