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Presidential Candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh
Egypt's Future Middle-Ground Man?
More than 14 months on from an uprising that ousted the former regime of Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, the Muslim Brotherhood is in power and establishing its political strength in parliament. Once dubbed the future reformist of the Brotherhood, the independent candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh now faces the ire of the country's leading political movement, whose own candidate has just been banned. Joseph Mayton reports
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Row over Report on Young Muslims in Germany
Easy Pickings for Headline Grabbers
Comments issued by German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich on a controversial new study have triggered a debate on the refusal of young Muslims to integrate. But his critics accuse him of cherry-picking the report's findings to generate sensational headlines. By Daniel Bax
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Post-revolution Tunisia
Women Try to Assert Independence
Women were a key force in the popular protests that toppled Tunisia's government last year and kicked off the Arab Spring. But now many Tunisian women worry that the new government may want to turn back the clock. Sarah Mersch reports from Tunis
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The Arab Spring's Balance Sheet
The Grapes of Arab Wrath
According to Wadah Khanfar, the West has to wake up and accept the Arab people's will, recognize the scale of the historic change sweeping through the region and support genuine democracy in the Arab world. If the Arab Spring fails, the result will not be a return to pro-West dictatorships, but the triggering of a "tsunami of rage"
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Salafists in Egypt
Exploiting the Weakness of the People
The Salafists provided the biggest surprise of the Egyptian elections. They will constitute the second largest party in the new Egyptian parliament. The Salafists are seeking to present an outwardly moderate image, but it is their radical slogans that score points for them with the voters. Karim El-Gawhary reports from Cairo
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2011 in the Arab World
No Reason to Fear the Democratic Experiment
Will the Arab Spring end in an Islamist-dominated, backward-looking, grey winter? Despite the Islamists' recent successes in the first free elections in the Arab world, Qantara.de's Loay Mudhoon feels that this is unlikely to be the case
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Review of Michael Lüders' book on the Arab Spring
How the Arab Revolution Is Changing the World
In his book about the Arab Spring, the well-known Middle East expert and journalist Michael Lüders criticises the West's one-dimensional view of the historic events that have shaken the Arab world over the past year. Sebastian Sons read the book
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Tunisia after the Elections
Ennahda and the Challenges of Democracy
In the recent Tunisian elections, the Islamist Ennahda party ended up way ahead of its competitors. The Tunisian philosopher Jameleddine Ben Abdeljelil says the way the party has developed internally makes it possible that it will be able to play a constructive role in a pluralistic and democratic system
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Elections in Tunisia
Fears of Islamist Threat Unfounded
Tunis-based political analyst Aida Rehouma and Geneva-based foreign relations analyst Rabab Fayed explain why Tunisian elections paint a bright future for the country in spite of criticisms
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The Islamist Election Victory in Tunisia
Ennahda – Asset or Threat?
Tunisia's Islamist Renaissance Party is now the strongest force in the constituent assembly. Many have been surprised by the fact that no secular party was able to garner nearly as many seats, and "Ennahda's" victory has alarmed those who espouse a liberal Tunisia. An analysis by Sigrid Faath
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Ziad Majed on Islamism and the Arab Spring
''The Term Islamist Doesn't Mean Anything Anymore''
Not since 1989 has a whole region undergone democratic revolution, but what are the common denominators in the Arab Spring? Jefferson Chase asked Lebanese lecturer and activist Ziad Majed, and he gave some surprising answers
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The Arab Spring and Its Implications
Departure from Ideology
The Arab revolts of 2011 have been above all an uprising by the region's youth. From Rabat to Riyadh, from one end of the Arab world to the other, this is a generation which is sceptical towards any ideology, including that of Islamism. An analysis by Volker Perthes