Articles tagged with: sharia
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Tuesday, 30 Apr, 2013
Turkey became a true multi-party democracy in 1950, and it has been holding free and fair elections ever since. Not counting the four years spent under military leadership following coups d’état, this means the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has effectively run Turkey for nearly a quarter of the country’s democratic history, thus becoming the longest-governing party in the history of the Turkish Republic.
Since coming to power in 2002, the AKP has not only managed the longest stint ...
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Monday, 11 Mar, 2013
ALEPPO, Asharq Al-Awsat---Ala Jaleema leans against the wall, clutching her daughter in front of her. For the second time in six months, she and her seven children are homeless: first Syrian government forces flattened their home with mortar shells, and then soldiers from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) evicted them from the scrap metal warehouse they had been sheltering in.
“They said that the man who owned the warehouse was Shabiha,” she says. “So they threw us out and took our mattres...
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In the year 1963, Egyptian economist Ahmed El-Najjar started a quiet revolution in a small, unknown city about 75 kilometers outside of Cairo. In the city of Mit Ghamr, home to p...
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Wednesday, 7 Dec, 2011
As time passes, the political impact of the revolutions that have swept the Middle East in the past year becomes clearer. In Tunisia and Egypt legitimate elections have taken...
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Wednesday, 2 Nov, 2011
Today on the website of al-Masry al-Youm newspaper was a light-hearted story poking fun at the Salafis, the fundamentalist Muslims who have become increasingly visible since th...
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