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In Egypt, A Son Is Readied for Succession

Egypt’s military has picked the country’s rulers for more than half a century. Nasser, Sadat and Hosni Mubarak came from the officer corps, whose endorsement is still seen as essential for whoever wishes to be president. ..

In Egypt, the son also rises

Tall and gangly, the man on stage in khakis and shirtsleeves spoke woodenly despite the energy and friendliness evident in his audience of well-off Egyptian college students and recent graduates...

Crackdowns On Bloggers Increasing, Survey Finds

Government repression in some countries has shifted from journalists to bloggers, with the vitality of the Internet triggering a more focused crackdown as blogs increasingly take the place of mainstream news media, according to Lucie Morillon, Washington director of the advocacy group Reporters Without Borders...

Crackdowns On Bloggers Increasing, Survey Finds

"Countries that were not sentencing journalists to prison terms anymore have been doing it these last months for bloggers. This is the case in Egypt and Jordan," she said yesterday as the group released its sixth annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index. Egypt ranked 146th and Jordan 122nd in press freedom among the 169 countries for which data were available. ..

Cairo Moving More Aggressively To Cripple Muslim Brotherhood

Brotherhood leaders and rights groups contend the government is clearing the stage of opponents in politics, civil society and the news media ahead of the end of the 26-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak, who is 79. Egyptians widely expect the transition to be tense and that Mubarak’s son Gamal will be a top contender...

Forsaking the Egyptian Free Press

The Egyptian publisher Hisham Kassem was in Washington last week to pick up the National Endowment for Democracy’s prestigious annual Democracy Award, ..

Jittery Egypt renews government crackdown on dissent

Some 40 Brotherhood members, including a top leader, are on trial in a military court on charges including terrorism and money laundering in proceedings rights groups including Amnesty International have dismissed as unfair. More than 120 other Brotherhood men are in jail, unrelated to that case. ..

Military Hegemony Does Not A Democracy Make

There are numerous countries with strong militaries that are a far cry from democracies. One factor to consider is the order in which the two develop: in other words,..

Islamic Party Confident in Morocco

Moderate Muslims Predict Big Gains in Today’s Vote, New Role in Government..

Transformed By Her Bond With Bush

t was just two days after President Bush’s reelection in 2004, and Condoleezza Rice was planning her move back home to California and to the tranquility of life at Stanford University...

A ’Dissident President’?

If President Bush really feels solidarity with Egypt’s Saad Eddin Ibrahim, he ought to act on it.WHEN HE met Egypt’s best known democracy advocate, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, at a conference in Prague in June,..

Fight Less, Win More

On a highway north of Kabul last month, an American soldier aimed a machine gun at my car from the turret of his armored Humvee. In the split second for which our eyes locked, I had a revelation: To a man with a weapon, everything looks like a threat...

As Democracy Push Falters, Bush Feels Like a ’Dissident’

By the time he arrived in Prague in June for a democracy conference, President Bush was frustrated. He had committed his presidency to working toward the goal of "ending tyranny in our world," yet the march of freedom seemed stalled. ..

Muslim Democracy in Action

The notion that democracy and Islam are fundamentally incompatible is about to get a resounding rebuke, just at the moment it is threatening to congeal as conventional wisdom in Washington...

Islamic-Rooted President Wins in Turkey

Abdullah Gul, a devout Muslim with roots in political Islam, won parliamentary election Tuesday as Turkey’s president in defiance of the country’s secular generals...

Egypt’s Unchecked Repression

Sadly, this regime has strayed so far from the rule of law that, for my own safety, I have been warned not to return to Egypt. Regime insiders and those in Cairo’s diplomatic circles have said that I will be arrested or worse. My family is worried, knowing that Egypt’s jails contain some 80,000 political prisoners and that disappearances are routinely ignored or chalked up to accidents. My fear is that these abuses will spread if Egypt’s allies and friends continue to stand by silently..

Analysis: Bush’s Sweeping Push For Democracy Is Sinking

By the time he arrived in Prague in June for a democracy conference, President Bush was frustrated...

The Muslim World’s Embattled Secularists

Who will defend the Muslim who doubts his faith? Who speaks for the man or the woman who might believe in Allah, by his or her own lights, but does not wish to worship?..

’We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea’

Since Hamas won control of parliament in the recent Palestinian elections, policymakers in Washington and Jerusalem have been faced with a dilemma: how to deal with a democratically elected government that is also on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations. Last week, Newsweek-Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth interviewed Hamas’s new prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, by phone in his home in the refugee camp where he lives with his wife and 12 children in Gaza...

Interview With Condoleezza Rice

U.S. Department of State transcript of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s interview with The Washington Post editorial board on Dec. 14, 2006, in Washington, D.C.

QUESTION: Thank you very much for coming.

SECRETARY RICE: Of course.

QUESTION: It will be on the record...