Articles tagged with: liberal
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Wednesday, 25 Apr, 2012
A big divide has emerged between liberal-minded groups and religious-based activists after Islamist parties gained parliamentary majorities in the polls in Tunisia, Egypt, and Morocco, a divide that risks undermining the transition from authoritarianism to pluralism. Wary of the Islamists’ surge, liberals, leftists, and women’s rights groups argue that while Islamist leaders sound moderate, they harbor a conservative religious agenda—an agenda that might roll back human rights and indi...
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Wednesday, 11 Jan, 2012
Reporters are forever on the hunt for “real people” in their quest to unpick the fabric of a country. But where are they? How do they think and live? And in the case of Egypt, who are the so-called real people who will decide the fate of the Arab world’s most influential country?
The Egyptian uprising was in many ways driven by the young, liberal and often secular types who co-ordinated the insurrection from their laptops and Twitter accounts. Yet in reality—as the non-religious p...
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Wednesday, 26 Oct, 2011
Tunisia has voted. As anticipated, it seems that the Islamist Ennahdha (Renaissance)—which has struggled for decades as an officially unrecognized and illegal political party...
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Tuesday, 5 Apr, 2011
A brilliant, educated woman has to choose between two men: one a wealthy, cynical Istanbuliot as cosmopolitan as she is; the other provincial, poor but possessed by a burni...
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