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What are the prospects of home-grown democracy?

t is widely reported that during a visit to Doha in 1999, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak toured the satellite TV station Al Jazeera.

UN must carry on more reforms to survive

Turkey's decision to send troops to Iraq to help the US military occupation in strengthening its grip on the war-stricken country has been denounced throughout the Islamic world.

In his book Power and Paradise, Robert Kagan, an American right-wing intellectual, expressed his frustration over what he called Europe's disrespect of the American way of handling international politics.

For decades this slogan constituted a legitimacy formula for the Baath and through it the party won the support of the poor, the dispossessed and the angered masses at the loss of Palestine in 1948.

Today, Syria’s Baath Party will begin its regional congress, the tenth since the party was established in 1947.

If United States President George W. Bush was right in anything about his vision of the Greater Middle East, it was his picking up Turkey as an example for democratic transformation in the region.