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Egyptians split over Obama visit

"The [Egyptian] regime will act as a barrier between Obama and the Brotherhood especially as the regime feels apprehensive about the presence of the Brotherhood at meetings. In fact, we are not interested in attending a meeting with Obama because it would result in nothing," he added. ..

Obama takes a cue from Clinton era

During her first Middle Eastern tour, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced from Ankara that President Barack Obama will be visiting Istanbul next month. Obama’s forthcoming visit to Turkey is seen as a major shift in US policy towards the Middle East. It is quite unusual that a US president visits the region without stopping in Israel or meeting Israeli officials..

Arab intellectuals and the State

Amid the clamour and blood-letting in the Middle East - carnage in Iraq, fratricidal brawls in the Palestinian territories, Lebanon’s unhealed wounds and so much more - another less publicised battle is being waged: that of enlightened Arab intellectuals against the mindless taboos and conservative governments under which many of them live...

The fear factor that silences

Candidates for public office, high and low, are bewitched -frightened is the more accurate word - by an unwarranted but costly fear of the US lobby that functions on behalf of the State of Israel...

Islamist threat is exaggerated

Is the Greater Middle East region ready for reforms designed to broaden the decision-making base of the state? The question has been at the heart of a debate triggered in 2002 when the Bush administration launched its plans for the region. Since then, the plan itself has been put on the backburner. But the debate continues...

New version of political Islam

he victory of moderate Islamists in Turkey’s general and presidential elections coincided with a concerted crackdown by authorities in Egypt and Jordan against the Islamists. ..

The MB, between the Turkish AKP and Hamas

The victory of the Turkish Justice and Development Party in the last legislative elections for the second time was widely echoed in the ranks of the political and intellectual elite in the Arab world...

Turkey shows that it’s different

Turkey’s election choice on July 22 does not mark a final disengagement with secularism as some enthusiastic Islamists in the Arab world believe. ..