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Arab Reform Bulletin: New Format, New Release

After two years as a monthly publication, the Arab Reform Bulletin, a product of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has altered its format and will now issue one or two articles per week...

POMED Notes: “Looking Back & Moving Forward: Human Rights in the Arab World in 2009 and Beyond”

The Project on Middle East Democracy and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) hosted an event to examine the current state of human rights in the Arab world...

After Cairo: From the Vision of the Cairo Speech to Active Support for Human Dignity.

The election of President Obama offers a genuine opportunity to repair the badly damaged image of the United States in the Middle East...

POMED on engaging Islamist movements.

Since we're talking about the Muslim Brotherhood this morning: Shadi Hamid and Amanda Kadlec have a good new POMED paper out on engaging political Islamist movements, like the Brotherhood and Jordan's Islamic Action Front...

Egypt: New government crackdown on MB leadership

Al Jazeera reports that Egyptian security forces have detained at least 13 members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The arrests are widely seen as the start of an effort by the Egyptian government to crackdown on Egypt’s most powerful opposition group ahead of parliamentary elections...

Strategies for Engaging Political Islam: A Middle East, U.S. and EU ‘Trialogue’

POMED and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung hosted a panel discussion on practical strategies for engaging political Islam. Current policies of engagement by the U.S. and E.U...

Obama Administration Unsupportive of Middle East Democracy?

Steven Stanek and Matt Bradley, in an article for The National, comment on the Obama Administration’s committment to democratic reform in the Middle East.Stanek and Bradley compare former President Bush’s approach of democracy promotion through the use of military force to President Obama’s more relaxed stance...

POMED Report: “Strategies for Engaging Political Islam”

Political Islam is the single most active political force in the Middle East today. To offer insights into this critical issue, the Project on Middle East Democracy partnered with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung to bring together scholars and experts from the Middle East, the United States, and Europe...

Strategies for Engaging Political Islam

Political Islam is the single most active political force in the Middle East today. Its future is intimately tied to that of the region..

Egypt: How Significant is the Muslim Brotherhood’s Election?

The Majlis doubts that the “election has much external significance, despite widely-publicized concerns that Badie (a conservative) will push the group to the right.”..

Egypt: Prominent Egyptian Bloggers and Activists Detained

In a show of solidarity to the Egyptian families suffering after the loss of their loved ones in the attacks on the eve of the Orthodox Coptic Christmas, a large group of prominent Egyptian bloggers and political activists journeyed to the town of Nag Hammadi in southern Egypt...

Just Released: New Issue of the Arab Reform Bulletin

The new issue of the Arab Reform Bulletin, published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, highlights ongoing political battles in Palestine, Jordan, Libya, and Egypt...

Middle East Democracy Promotion

Marina Ottaway of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has released a new policy brief entitled, “Middle East Democracy Promotion Is Not a One-way Street.”..

Jordan: King Dissolves Parliament

King Abdullah of Jordan unexpectedly announced the dissolution of parliament and called for early elections. No election date was given, however Jordan last held legislative elections in November 2007...

Middle Eastern Democrats and Their Vision of the Future, Keynote Address

The National Endowment for Democracy hosted a day-long meeting to discuss the ongoing prospects for democracy in the Middle East...

The Struggle over Democracy in the Middle East

Nathan Brown and Emad Shahin have edited a new book, The Struggle over Democracy in the Middle East, which examines “democracy and democratization in the light of regional realities rather than the wishful thinking of outsiders...

Egyptian Blogger Beaten

During the mayhem of a major soccer match, Egyptian blogger Kareem el-Shae’r was kidnapped and beaten...

Middle East International Refounded

The Middle East International has restarted its printing press after a six-year hiatus, releasing a free PDF issue online in commemoration. According to the Arabist, MEI offers “long articles and analysis from writers based in-country who [know] what they [are] talking about.”..

Audit of USAID Democracy Programs in Egypt

Last week, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a comprehensive new report entitled, “Audit of USAID/Egypt’s Democracy and Governance Activities,” which evaluates the effectiveness of USAID’s democracy and governance programs in Egypt through Fiscal Year 2008...

No Successor in Egypt

According to Amro Hassan, this weekend’s National Democratic Party conference failed to ease fears over Egyptian succession. While many had hoped the conference would address the issue of President Hosni Mubarak’s successor, “Former Minister of Information and current NDP Secretary-General Safwat Sherif blasted the independent news media for raising what he called “speculative” suggestions that Gamal Mubarak will be the country’s next president, adding that it is too early to discuss who will be the party’s presidential candidate.”..