Despite the general Arab decline in the press freedom rankings, the region’s media have, in many ways, actually become freer.
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Fundamentalists in America and Egypt are obsessed with "virtue "and "vice". But the rise of Islamists threatens to bind Egyptian women in a moral vice.
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Islamists are not all Osama bin Laden and secularists are not all Atatürk . They can work together to achieve democracy.
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The army is giving Egyptians a stark choice: choose freedom and endure anarchy, or choose stability and put up with us.
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On the 10th anniversary of the day after 9/11, it is high time to trash the ‘clash of civilisations’ theory and the ‘war on terror’ and start a new chapter in the West’s relationship with the new Middle East.
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Britain's former foreign minister David Miliband has high hopes for the Arab revolutions.
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“You won’t fool the children of the revolution.” Especially not if they’re Twittering away on their mobile phones.
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The revolution in Egypt succeeded because it had no Islamist face, and the Muslim Brotherhood has benefited from maintaining a soft presence.
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To truly succeed, Egypt’s revolution needs to trigger a profound evolution in every strata of society.
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