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		<title>Tinderbox: An Assassination Brings the Spotlight Back to Tunisia</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/06/tinderbox-an-assassination-brings-the-spotlight-back-to-tunisia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tunisians complain that their country never got the full credit it deserved for starting the Arab Spring: the young revolutionaries who stormed Kasbah Square two years ago had barely removed their longtime dictator from office — an astonishing achievement at the time — before their thunder was stolen by copycats in Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square. As the fruits of the Spring have been soured by ugly, often violent political conflict, Egypt has monopolized the world&#8217;s attention. Tunisia&#8217;s own postrevolutionary complications have gotten little notice. That&#8217;s about to change. The assassination of a prominent opposition leader on Wednesday morning has brought protesters back to Kasbah Square, along with the world&#8217;s TV cameras. How the mostly secular-minded protesters behave over the next few days — and how the Islamist-dominated government reacts — will determine whether the tiny nation on the Mediterranean descends into chaos or shows the rest of the Arab world how to deal with political crisis without vindictiveness and violence. (PHOTOS: Tunisia&#8217;s Tumultuous Month) The ruling Ennahda party, an Islamist movement, has been quick to denounce the murder, by a gunman on a motorcycle, of Chokri Belaid, a leftist politician and outspoken critic of the government. But many of his supporters believe the Islamists are at least culpable — and possibly responsible — for Belaid&#8217;s killing. They say it is the climax of a rising trend of political intimidation and violence, most of it directed against secular groups. Belaid, a leader of the Popular Front, claimed in a recent television interview that Ennahda had given a &#8220;green light&#8221; for political assassinations. He also called for a national conference to discuss the growing violence. Although most of the violence leading up to his assassination has been blamed on Salafist groups that are to the far right of Ennahda, opposition figures, as well as some human-rights organizations, have blamed the government for indulging hatemongering religious groups and for failing to act when violence has been committed. Rights groups and leftist politicians like Belaid have accused the Ennahda-led government of being too lax in its approach to political<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=67602&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Voice of Reason Falls Silent: Xavier Batalla, 1948-2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I acquired most of my heroes as a young man, when reverence came easy. The older I’ve grown, and the more cynical, the harder it’s become to give my devotion. I meet likeable people all the time, and admirable people often. But in one’s 40s, it’s almost impossible now to elevate an individual to one’s personal pantheon. Xavier Batalla is my exception. We met only four years ago, at a diplomatic soiree in Washington DC: he was visiting from his native Barcelona. As journalists and writers on international affairs — he was foreign editor of the great Spanish daily, La Vanguardia, and I was World Editor at TIME — we were naturally kindred. We’d been to many of the same hotspots, met many of the same people: we had just finished reading the same book, Steve Coll’s ‘The Bin Ladens.’ Most importantly, we were both partisans for FC Barcelona, the great soccer club, able to rattle off team lists going back several decades. He seemed delighted by our serendipitous meeting. “This one,” a greatly amused Xavier said to our host, the Brazilian Ambassador, “is just like me.” I wish. As our friendship deepened, I came quickly to appreciate what a brilliant journalist he was. My Spanish wasn’t good enough to get the best out of his writing, but our conversations revealed his great gifts of observation, recollection and analysis. But above all else, they revealed his humanism. Where my travels had made me a professional pessimist (in my defense, I had only recently returned from a five-year assignment in Iraq), Xavier’s journalism had made him think better of people and politics. And he had done a great deal more journalism than I had: in a 40-year career, Xavier had reported from over 50 countries. He had written for El Correo Catalán, Diario de Barcelona and El País before finding a perch at La Vanguardia. It seemed inconceivable to me that someone with that much experience with the people and politics of the world should be so sanguine about them. I<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=59840&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morsi’s Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh / Cairo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most important man in the Middle East started 2012 as much a stranger to the people he now rules as he was to the rest of the world. Although Mohamed Morsi had long been part of the core leadership of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, he was viewed as a back-room operator, largely unnoticed among the Islamic party’s more charismatic political and religious figures. Not many outside of a handful of State Department Arabists in Washington had even heard his name. And yet the year’s end finds Morsi instantly identifiable worldwide, even as his intentions in Egypt and the region remain very much unclear. In recent weeks, he has been hailed as a peacemaker by the U.S. and Israel, a savior by the Palestinians, a statesman by much of the Arab world—and branded a tyrant by the tens of thousands who have jammed Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square since Nov. 22 to denounce him. Whether you think him a hero or a villain, the short, stocky Islamist with the professional air is navigating some of the world’s trickiest political waters. (MORE: An Interview with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi: ‘We’re Learning How to Be Free’) Morsi doesn’t pretend his tenure has been perfect and argues it can’t be. Speaking with TIME in his first interview with the international media since the Gaza crisis, he points out that his government is Egypt’s first experience of real democracy. “So what do you expect. Things to go very smooth? No. It has to be rough, at least,” he says. But he also gives the impression of a man having a year to remember. “2012 is the best year for the Egyptians in their lives, in their history,” he says. “We’re suffering, but always a new birth is not easy, especially if it’s the birth of a nation.” When the interview was scheduled, Morsi was riding high. His successful brokering of a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas had given him widening international and domestic support, a feat unmatched by any other Arab leader in the modern era, and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=57023&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transcript: TIME’s Interview with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/28/transcript-times-interview-with-egyptian-president-mohamed-morsi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Stengel, Bobby Ghosh and Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Note: TIME had spelled the president's surname as "Morsy" based on his Ph.D. dissertation for the University of Southern California; his advisers in Cairo say the preferred spelling is now Morsi. Protocol required President Morsi to answer questions from TIME editors and reporters in his native Arabic, the official language of Egypt.  Instead, as a courtesy to his guests, he spoke for most of the hour in English, which he last spoke regularly three decades ago.] TIME: You’re on the world stage now. President Mohamed Morsi: (In English) The world stage is very difficult. It’s not easy to be on the world stage. The world is now much more difficult than it was during your revolution. It’s even more difficult. The world. More complicated, complex, difficult. It’s a spaghetti-like structure. It’s mixed up. So we need to somehow take things, easily, so we can go together, the whole world &#8212; peacefully, peacefully, hopefully, all kinds of peace. I think you know that in general people like to say that we should keep peace by all means. I’m not talking about peace by its traditional meaning. Peace of mind, peace of heart, peace of living together, socially, culturally, not only militarily. (MORE: Should Mohamed Morsi be TIME&#8217;s Person of the Year?) (Switching to Arabic) Thank you for your interest&#8230; a good bridge between Egypt and the U.S. (In English) By the U.S., I mean the American people more than the authorities, politicians, etc. But the American people as I know are quite friendly, they are civilized, they have struggled, and they have given a lot of their country, to the world. It’s a different climate as we see from here but I think the media now have made things very close… [i.e., made the world a smaller place] and people are a small village, getting together. Winds are blowing here and there and people are busy with their lifestyles but I think they are looking to see a better situation in the world during President Obama’s second [term], which is more relaxed. I<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=56925&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi: ‘We’re Learning How to Be Free’</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/28/an-interview-with-egypts-president-mohamed-morsi-were-learning-how-to-be-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Stengel, Bobby Ghosh and Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED On Nov. 28, 2012, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi sat down for an exclusive interview with TIME managing editor Rick Stengel, editor-at-large Bobby Ghosh and Jerusalem bureau chief Karl Vick. Protocol required President Morsi to answer questions from TIME editors and reporters in his native Arabic, the official language of Egypt.  Instead, as a courtesy to his guests, he spoke for most of the hour in English, which he last spoke regularly three decades ago. He discussed his beginnings with the Muslim Brotherhood, how he sees the world, his dealings with President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the Gaza cease-fire and his latest crisis: protests from the judiciary and the secularist opposition over his decree assuming legislative and near autocratic power as Egypt awaits its constitution and the formation of a legislature. He remembered watching U.S. television during his years in California studying for his engineering Ph.D. And he detailed his love of certain movies, including Gone with the Wind and the original Planet of the Apes.  (Note: in previous stories, TIME had spelled the President&#8217;s surname as Morsy, based on his Ph.D. dissertation for the University of Southern California; his advisers in Cairo say the preferred spelling is Morsi.)  Following are highlights of the interview: On the state of the world: This is a new period, I think, not only for Egypt or the people of the Arab Spring but, I think, for the whole world. To reconsider what has been done wrong in the past and see how can we make it correct, as much as we can. It takes time. So speed is low, acceleration is high. Somehow we’re pushing in all directions, trying to say to the people of the world and convince the governments and the leaders that we should live at peace. Conflict does not lead to stability in the world. Cooperation [does]. How can we do that? It’s a struggle. It’s a very, very difficult struggle. To have a new culture, international culture, respecting individual countries and people’s cultures, their local<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=56910&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Agents of Outrage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The violence looked spontaneous; it was anything but. Instead it was the product of a sequence of provocations, some mysterious, some obvious. It seemed to start in the U.S., then became magnified in Egypt and was brought to a deadly and sorrowful climax in Libya — all on the 11th anniversary of 9/11. The cast of characters in this tragedy included a shadowy filmmaker, a sinister pastor in Florida, an Egyptian-American Islamophobe, an Egyptian TV host, politically powerful Islamist extremist groups and, just possibly, an al-Qaeda affiliate in Libya. The instigators and executors didn’t work in concert; they probably didn’t even know they were in cahoots. Indeed, some of them would sooner die than knowingly help the others’ causes. Nonetheless, the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was the result of a collective effort, with grievous consequences. As the Obama Administration struggles to contain the fallout of the killings — and even to piece together exactly what happened — there’s an increasing apprehension that this attack may herald a new genre of Middle East crisis. The Arab Spring replaced the harsh order of hated dictators with a flowering of neophyte democracies. But these governments—with weak mandates, ever shifting loyalties and poor security forces—have made the region a more chaotic and unstable place, a place more susceptible than ever to rogue provocateurs fomenting violent upheavals, usually in the name of faith. (MORE: Ambassador Chris Stevens: The American Who Loved Libya (1960–2012)) Collectively, these hatemongers form a global industry of outrage, working feverishly to give and take offense, frequently over religion, and to ignite the combustible mix of ignorance and suspicion that exists almost as much in the U.S. as in the Arab world. Add to this combination the presence of opportunistic jihadist groups seeking to capitalize on any mayhem, and you can begin to connect the dots between a tawdry little film and the deaths of four American diplomats. Start with the filmmaker behind Innocence of Muslims, a purported biopic of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=44762&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>11 Years After 9/11, the Holy World War Is Over and All Jihad is Local</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers. It provides some psychic satisfaction to all those traumatized by that ghastly day, and the wars that it wrought, that our collective remembrance will not be embittered by the nagging question, &#8220;And why is Osama bin Laden still alive and free today?&#8221; But perhaps more important that bin Laden&#8217;s own demise is the death of his vision of a &#8216;global jihad,&#8217; a holy world war pitting Muslims everywhere against infidels everywhere, especially in the West. His fervid dreams of a conflict with the U.S., the &#8220;far enemy,&#8221; were dashed long before SEAL Team Six burst into his Pakistani hideout. Psychotic mass-murderers tend not to be introspective, but it can&#8217;t have escaped bin Laden&#8217;s attention as he stared at his TV screen that angry young Muslims were not lining up to kill Americans, wealthy patrons were not pumping billions into the cause, and Westerners were not cowering in their cellars. (PHOTOS: Osama bin Laden&#8217;s Legacy: 13 Years of Terrorist Attacks) Don&#8217;t get me wrong: there&#8217;s still a holy war abroad. From Mali and the Maghreb through Iraq and Syria to Pakistan and Afghanistan, jihadist groups are at large and enjoying various degrees of success. Many of these groups claim affiliation to al-Qaeda, chant bin Laden&#8217;s name and parrot some of his anti-West rhetoric. But look more closely, and you&#8217;ll see that these groups — whether Boko Haram in Nigeria or Al Shabaab in Somalia, the Pakistani Taliban or Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia — are fired not by the desire to strike at the U.S. but by much more local causes. Their activities are confined to a single country; occasionally, they stray across a border. Whatever their rhetoric, the target of their rage is, for the most part, other Muslims. The most significant<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26101&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Yemen May Defeat al-Qaeda</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/06/how-yemen-may-defeat-al-qaeda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could tiny, impoverished Yemen be showing the way to vanquish al-Qaeda? That&#8217;s the subject of my latest article in the current issue of TIME magazine. This summer, unnoticed by most of the world, Yemeni troops reclaimed territory that for over a year had been controlled by the terrorist network&#8217;s local franchise, known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsila (AQAP). The fighting was intense and bloody, but in the end the jihadists were soundly beaten. Many were killed, and those who fled are now finding it much harder than before to find shelter among tribesmen in the more remote parts of the country. The U.S. can claim — but is being careful not to — some of the credit, since American drones played a part in the battle. But the boots on the ground were Yemeni, and it was they who did most of the hard fighting. In meaningful ways, this was a victory for the Arab Spring: the uprising removed Ali Abdallah Saleh, Yemen&#8217;s longstanding dictator, from office, and his elected replacement, President Hadi, has made defeating AQAP a high priority. It helped, too, that a national consensus had evolved about the danger AQAP presents to Yemen. Only a couple of years ago, many Yemenis thought the jihadists were America&#8217;s problem, not their own. But when AQAP seized a swath of territory in the southern province of Abyan, that delusion could no longer be sustained. Ruling much like Afghanistan&#8217;s Taliban, AQAP imposed a harsh interpretation of Islamic law on towns like Zinjibar and Jaar: the population responded by fleeing. Tens of thousands flocked to the port city of Aden, where their presence undermined the jihadists claim to being a popular movement. The refugees are now returning home, and Hadi&#8217;s government has been buoyed by the military victory. But the war is not over. Many AQAP fighters remain at large, and they have returned to older tactics of suicide attacks. One bomber killed over 100 soldiers at a military parade in Sana&#8217;a on May 21. If it demonstrated the jihadists continued<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=43536&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Terrorists Have Tanks: A Ride Through al-Qaeda Country</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/07/25/where-terrorists-have-tanks-a-ride-through-al-qaeda-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between us, war photographer Yuri Kozyrev and I have embedded with many of the world&#8217;s most powerful militaries — American, British, Russian, NATO, Indian. But nothing could have prepared us for our road trip through Yemen&#8216;s volatile Abyan province, with a patrol from the country&#8217;s Central Security Force. We know it was going to be like nothing we&#8217;d experienced before when we arrive, at the crack of dawn, at the designated checkpoint on the outskirts of the southern coastal city of Aden. Our patrol, it turns out, was a single Toyota pickup truck, with a rusty 12.7mm machine-gun mounted on the back and a seven-man squad. If we want to go with them, Yuri and I would have to BYOV&#8230; bring our own vehicle. The driver of our minivan-taxi is not keen to chase after a military vehicle through territory that only weeks ago was controlled by the jihadist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). His anxiety is not eased when the soldiers, unused to escorting a civilian vehicle, keep speeding out of sight ahead of us. Communications were spotty: they don&#8217;t have radios, and cellphone service works only occasionally. It takes over an hour before we have, through frantic hand signals, persuaded them to let us set the pace. (VIDEO: Volatile Yemen: Uprisings and Al-Qaeda) By then, we are already in the outskirts of Jaar, a town famous for housing many Yemeni mujahideen who had returned from the fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the late 1980s. When AQAP seized control of Abyan in early 2011, Jaar was their unofficial capital. And even though Yemeni forces reclaimed the town last May, many jihadists are believed to have simply blended into the local population. &#8220;This is not a safe place,&#8221; says 2nd Lieutenant Tariq Bishr, leader of our squad. &#8220;I can tell by the way people are looking at us.&#8221; I&#8217;m acutely aware that we are poorly equipped to handle an ambush: the soldiers carry AK-47s, but so too do many townsfolk. Neither of our vehicles is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=35689&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Yemen, a Controversial Memorial Makes an Important Point</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/07/18/in-yemen-a-controversial-memorial-makes-an-important-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber, commanders face a quandary: the fallen deserve to be mourned, but to make a public show of grief could give the terrorists the propaganda victory they crave. Most militaries quickly clean up the scene of the attack, issue a statement of condemnation and draw a curtain of silence over the mourning process. Not Yemen&#8217;s Central Security Force (CSF). Nearly two months after the May 21 suicide bombing that killed over 100 graduating CSF cadets during a parade in Sana‘a, the attack is relived over and over where it happened, in Sabaeen Square. Giant billboards bear portraits of the dead and over 300 wounded. In a geodesic tent, a large TV screen plays a continuous loop of video of the attack&#8217;s grisly aftermath: body parts and blood everywhere, the screams of the dying and the maimed, the horror and rage of their comrades-in-arms. (VIDEO: Volatile Yemen: Uprisings and al-Qaeda) Residents of Sana‘a are being welcomed to stop by this impromptu memorial, take a close look at the portraits and the video and sign a visitor&#8217;s log. If there is any concern among the CSF&#8217;s leadership that this public display gives al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) free publicity, it is overruled by a desire to show Yemenis that the local franchise of Osama bin Laden&#8217;s global jihad is not merely a threat to U.S. and the West. &#8220;We want people to remember what happened here,&#8221; says Brigadier General Yahya Saleh, the CSF&#8217;s chief of staff. &#8220;There must be no doubt in their minds that al-Qaeda is an enemy of Yemen.&#8221; The message seems to be getting through. The visitors&#8217; log is filled with expressions of rage and loathing against the jihadists, as well as calls for vengeance. In the geodesic tent, there are gasps of horror from those who watch the video, as well as tears of sorrow. Many visitors welcome the CSF&#8217;s plan to build a permanent memorial on the site. &#8220;This is a national tragedy and should never be forgotten,&#8221; says<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=35637&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Arab Spring&#8217;s Nobel Laureate Says the Revolution Isn&#8217;t Over</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/07/17/the-arab-springs-nobel-peace-laureate-says-the-revolution-isnt-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change Square has changed, but not for the better. The tent city outside Sana&#8217;a University that was the focal point of year-long protests against Yemen&#8217;s President Ali Abdullah Saleh did not fold up after the dictator was finally ousted at the end of February. On the contrary, many of the tents have taken on a sense of permanence, with plastic and canvas giving way to cinder-block walls. Where youthful revolutionaries chanted anti-Saleh slogans and braved assaults by the dictator&#8217;s troops and thugs, vendors now flog shoes, toys and replica soccer jerseys. A hard core of protesters remain, but with an elected President — Abd Rabbuh Mansour al-Hadi — now running this impoverished nation, their protestations, for the most part, get little attention. Only one protester continues to make waves: Tawakul Karman, who won (with two other women) the Nobel Peace Prize last year and became one of the Arab Spring&#8217;s most recognizable faces. Her tent in the middle of Change Square continues to attract a steady stream of foreign dignitaries, local admirers and all manner of Yemenis seeking her guidance on how to get their grievances heard. Karman often sleeps in her tent, going home &#8220;when I miss my kids too much.&#8221; (READ: The woman at the head of Yemen&#8217;s protest movement) Why&#8217;s Karman still in the square? After all, she endorsed the election that brought Hadi, uncontested, to office. Why not now go home for good, and let him get on with governing the country? Because, she says, &#8220;the revolution is still going on.&#8221; Saleh may have stepped down, but the deal that brought his 44-year rule to an end, brokered by Gulf Arab states, protects him from prosecution, to the frustration of the Change Square faithful. The dictator&#8217;s son and nephew continue to command large parts of the Yemeni military, ensuring the family&#8217;s continued influence over the country. &#8220;As long as even one of his family remains in government, they will threaten the political transition and destabilize the country,&#8221; Karman says. &#8220;All the members of the old regime<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=35443&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tragedy Strikes Our Tribe, Again</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/02/22/tragedy-strikes-our-tribe-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it. It&#8217;s impossible to be totally desensitized by the trauma and sorrow of war, but, in time, we learn to suppress emotional reflexes and do our job. When tragedy strikes one of our own, however, even the most hardened of us must allow themselves a tear. It has been a ghastly week for our tribe. We&#8217;ve not yet come to terms with the death, in Syria, of the New York Times&#8216; Anthony Shadid, unarguably the finest foreign correspondent of his generation. And now comes news that another of our giants, Marie Colvin of Britain&#8217;s Sunday Times, has fallen in that bedeviled land. She, along with photojournalist Remi Ochlik, were killed in shelling by government forces in the blood-spattered city of Homs. I did not know Marie Colvin. We met once, at a nondescript party in London in the fall of 2003. It was a big event, but each of us had been told the other was in the room somewhere, and we set out looking for each other — in an unfamiliar setting, you always seek out your own kind. She was already a legend in the tribe: her heroic journalism had cost her an eye, to shrapnel in Sri Lanka, but not her unfaltering gaze upon the horrors of war, and the crimes of its perpetrators. I had heard she was also a brilliant raconteur. I was especially keen to hear her stories from Iraq and the Second Palestinian Intifadeh, conflicts we had both covered. Alas, we had too little time: there were too many people who wanted her attention, and we barely spoke for 15 minutes. Most of that time was spent exchanging information on others of the tribe. Had I seen Dexter recently, and was he okay? She had bumped into Rajiv, and he looked well. Is John watching his diet? Had Mick recovered from shrapnel wounds? We were checking<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=19349&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anthony Shadid: The Best of Our Breed</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/02/17/anthony-shadid-the-best-of-our-breed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know how chefs feel about Ferran Adrià, musicians about Bruce Springsteen, economists about Amartya Sen. I felt that way about Anthony Shadid: total and utter awe. In an era blessed with more than its fair share of brilliant foreign correspondents, he was the best of the breed. And his death, at just 43, leaves our profession bereft. Considering how often we were in the same city at the same time, it&#8217;s odd that Tony and I met only three times: in Baghdad, Amman and New York. At our first encounter, over dinner at TIME&#8217;s Baghdad bureau, I embarrassed him by behaving as a fawning fan. I had followed his career, first at the Boston Globe and then at the Washington Post (he would later join the New York Times), and read both his books. I quoted chapter and verse from the second, Night Draws Near, an evocative account of the lives of ordinary Iraqis under the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. He was plainly uncomfortable with my open admiration and shifted the conversation as best he could. As other journalists joined us for dinner, I got busy playing host, and Tony drifted out of the living room. After the meal, he stopped by the kitchen to say goodbye and remarked how lucky I was to have such a diverse mix of Iraqis on TIME&#8217;s staff. It was an odd thing to say: how could he possibly know how diverse our staff was? The next morning, I learned that while the rest of us were exchanging war stories, Tony had spent much of the evening chatting with our drivers and security guards, asking them about life in their neighborhoods, what their kids were studying in school and what they were hearing from relatives in other parts of the country. Our staff marveled at his keen interest in the minutiae of their lives. Raed, our security chief, said, &#8220;He was more interested in why my son is studying than I am.&#8221; But that was Tony&#8217;s great gift: his insatiable curiosity about —<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=19024&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dispatch from Tahrir: For Egypt&#8217;s Liberals, Election Is a Hard Vote to Swallow</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/12/02/dispatch-from-tahrir-for-egypts-liberals-election-is-a-hard-vote-to-swallow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a topsy-turvy few days for the Tahrir Square youths who brought down Egypt&#8217;s dictatorship at the height of the Arab Spring. Last week, they returned to the square to save the revolution from being hijacked by the military generals currently running the country: the new wave of demonstrations — some call them &#8216;Tahrir II&#8217; — forced the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to shorten the timetable in which it will hand power to a civilian government. But this week, there are fears the revolutionaries will themselves be a minority in that government. (PHOTOS: Amid turmoil, Egypt votes.) Results of the first round of voting for parliament, to be announced Friday, are expected to show that the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s Freedom and Justice Party (FPJ) got around 40% of the vote, and a grouping of ultra-conservative Salafis led by the Nour Party got 20%. The group that most resembles the leaders of the revolution, a constellation of mostly liberal-secular parties called the Egyptian Block, is believed to have got 20%. Although the FPJ and Nour are both Islamist parties, they are hardly natural allies: the Brotherhood is reformist and moderate, whereas Salafis are radical and often espouse a severe interpretation of Islam. Nonetheless, many secular groups believe the two will collaborate in the new parliament to form a majority. And since one of the parliament&#8217;s main tasks will be to write a new constitution, the fear is that an FJP-Nour alliance will infuse it with Islamic tenets. There are two rounds remaining, and final results will not be known until mid-January. But the first round, covering major urban centers like Cairo and Alexandria, represented the liberals&#8217; best chance of making a strong showing. Instead, the Islamists now have momentum on their side and could do even better in the second and third rounds. This has left many liberals with a sour taste in the mouth. Selma abu Aldahab, a well-known blogger and Tahrir Square veteran, says the election — and indeed the entire political process — is &#8220;illegitimate<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=12849&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How a Late Bollywood Icon Saved This Correspondent&#8217;s Life</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/08/15/how-a-late-bollywood-icon-saved-this-correspondents-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RIP Shammi Kapoor, Bollywood star of the 1960s. You danced, you sang, you romanced, you made movies fun. And although you didn&#8217;t know it, you saved my life. Long before Indian song-and-dance movies became cool in the West, they were huge in the Middle East. In the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Bollywood stars like Raj Kapoor (Shammi&#8217;s older brother), Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Mithun Chakraborty were household names from Tehran to Tunis. Arab viewers loved the music, the dancing, and most of all the melodrama that was the staple of Hindi movies of the age. These days, they respond to the slick production and fast-paced action of current Bollywood flicks, and a new generation of stars like Aishwarya Rai and Shah Rukh Khan have a fanatical following among Arab audiences. Shammi Kapoor never enjoyed that kind of crossover appeal — except in one place. For reasons I&#8217;ve never quite understood, Iraqis are nuts about him. His peculiar ants-in-his-pants dancing style, his loveable rogue image, his jowly good looks — they made him much beloved in Baghdad. This was especially true of Iraqis of a certain age, who remember such blockbusters as Teesri Manzil (Third Floor) and Dil Deke Dekho (Give Your Heart And See). Truth be told, I was never much of a Shammi Kapoor fan: I found his over-the-top acting style a little too much to take. But I quickly found that the best way to break the ice with people I met in Iraq was to ask if they remembered &#8220;Shaami Kaboor,&#8221; which is how they pronounced his name. Invariably, my interlocutors would grow misty eyed and nostalgic. They would recall their favorite scenes from his movies, and often shout out &#8220;Yahoo!&#8221; — it was his signature line from the wildly popular Junglee. They&#8217;d ask what he was doing these days. I&#8217;d tell them he was alive and well; and before long, we&#8217;d be chatting like old friends. In the summer of 2003, I was reporting from a small village west of Baghdad, known to be a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=8557&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the Magazine: The Rise of Moderate Islam</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/07/14/from-the-magazine-the-rise-of-moderate-islam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we wait for the Salafi leader Kamal Habib at the Cairo Journalists&#8217; Union, a sudden panic comes over me. I&#8217;ve just noticed that my translator, Shahira Amin, an Egyptian journalist, is wearing a sleeveless top and that her hair is uncovered. In my experience, Salafis, adherents of a very strict school of Islam, take a dim view of such displays of femininity. I recall a time in Baghdad when a Salafi preacher cursed me for bringing a female photographer to our interview, and an occasion in the Jordanian city of Salt when another Salafi leaped from his chair and thwacked his teenage daughter on the arm when she accidentally entered the room without covering her face from my infidel eyes. I&#8217;ve heard reports that Habib is not the hard-liner he was in the 1970s, when he co-founded the radical Egyptian Islamic Jihad, or the 1980s, when he was jailed in connection with the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. He gave up politics after a decade in prison, but in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, he has reinvented himself as a leader of a more moderate party. He&#8217;s held press conferences at the union, so presumably he&#8217;s had to make his peace with women who don&#8217;t cover their hair.(See pictures of a jihadist&#8217;s journey.) But I fear he may draw the line at a sleeveless top. Read more here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=7301&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Egypt</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://world.time.com/category/middle-east/egypt/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Turkey Inspires Islamists and Liberals, But in Very Different Ways</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/06/29/turkey-inspires-islamists-and-liberals-but-in-very-different-ways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody wants a piece of Turkey. On my sweep through Egypt and Tunisia, virtually everyone I met invoked the nation that bestrides the Bosphorus as one they&#8217;d like their own country to emulate. The Turks had just had a general election, and Arabs had watched it unfold on Al Jazeera and other TV channels. The vote was clean, mostly uncontroversial, and peaceful. There was none of the violence that attends elections (real and rigged) in the Arab world. Journalists covering it marveled also at Turkey&#8217;s economic successes, as well as its growing cultural and political influence in the Middle East. So it&#8217;s totally understandable that Egyptians and Tunisians should think to themselves, &#8220;Hey, I want all that for my country.&#8221; But when they see Turkey, Arab liberals and Islamists see two very different countries. Liberals see a modern, powerful state where the military and the constitution guarantee a secular polity. Islamists see a modern, powerful state that is coming to terms with its Muslim identity and is run by a political party that&#8217;s unabashedly Islamic. The debate is not theoretical. Both countries are preparing for elections this fall that will lead to the rewriting of their constitutions. Political and religious figures are already locking horns over who should do the rewriting, when and how. Many liberals favor constitutional reform now, elections later—not least because they worry that the Islamists will win big in the vote and dictate the reforms. Islamists (and some liberals) argue that reforms can only be legitimate when they are conducted by the peoples&#8217; elected representatives. Whenever the process begins, the people charged with remaking the Egyptian and Tunisian constitutions will look very closely at the Turkish example. Chances are the Islamists will aspire to Recep Tayyip Erdogan&#8217;s Turkey, whereas the liberals will favor Kemal Ataturk&#8217;s Turkey. Essam Erian, a prominent leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, says liberals who fear his Islamist group&#8217;s clout should look to Turkey and find reassurance. &#8220;The elections there show that the AP Party cannot [re-make] the constitution alone,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=6265&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dissent in the Muslim Brotherhood: How Egypt&#8217;s &#8216;Big Tent&#8217; Party Isn&#8217;t Big Enough</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/06/28/dissent-in-the-muslim-brotherhood-how-egypts-big-tent-party-isnt-big-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Western observers see the Muslim Brotherhood as a homogenous group of hard-line Islamists, dedicated to overthrowing the secular Egyptian state and imposing a severe interpretation of Shari&#8217;a law on its people. In reality, the Islamist group has long been something of a &#8220;big tent,&#8221; gathering within it representatives of different political leanings, all united by oppression under the regime of Hosni Mubarak. In conversations, some Brothers come across as old-fashioned leftists, dare I say even Marxists: their main focus seems to be workers’ rights. Others have an almost Thatcherite disdain for labor unions. Even among the true-green Islamists, there are at least two different groups: the followers of Hassan Banna and those of Syed Qutb. (I’ll save a discussion on the distinctions for another day.) With the brutal oppression of Mubarak now gone, it’s only to be expected that some denizens of the big tent feel free to strike out on their own. Some slipped away quietly, casting their lot with liberals like Mohamed ElBaradei and Amr Moussa. Others, like Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, broke with more fanfare: after he defied the Brotherhood’s ban on any member&#8217;s standing for President, he was ejected from the party. Now a group of prominent young Brothers have decided to go their own way, setting up the Egyptian Trend Party. (The Brotherhood, which has its own political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, has said that those who join the new group will be expelled.) This was to be expected: a couple of days before the announcement of the new party, Mohamed Kassas and Islam Lotfy told me they were disenchanted with the Brotherhood’s senior leadership. “The revolution exposed major differences between older and younger Brothers,” said Kassas. While the younger members were keen to join the uprising against Mubarak from the get-go, the older leadership were wary. Perhaps because they had suffered terribly for resisting the regime (most of the Brotherhood leadership endured long years in jail and brutal torture), the old guard hesitated for several days as the anti-Mubarak momentum built<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=5912&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s So Scary About the Muslim Brotherhood?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/06/23/whats-so-scary-about-the-muslim-brotherhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Essam Erian throws his hands up in mock surrender. &#8220;I cannot answer this question,&#8221; he says, smiling broadly. &#8220;This is a question for me to ask, for you to answer.&#8221; The question: What does the Muslim Brotherhood have to do to stop being portrayed as the bogeyman? The Egyptian Islamist movement has been trying very hard to shake the label. Since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, the Brotherhood has leaned over backward to convince the world that it is not a radical force seeking to drag Egypt into the past, like Afghanistan&#8217;s Taliban, or a reactionary group with an appetite for violence, like Hamas. Erian, one of the Brotherhood&#8217;s top leaders, ticks off the conciliatory gestures they&#8217;ve made. Early on, the movement said it would not field a candidate for president; when a prominent member said he would run, his membership was promptly and publicly revoked. The group has said it won&#8217;t even seek a majority in parliament, and contest only 50 per cent of seats. Erian says the Islamists will go to the polls as part of a coalition that will include parties representing secular, Coptic and Leftist groups. And Brotherhood leaders have said repeatedly that they will not seek a disproportionate voice in any post-election constitutional reform process. In short, the Brotherhood would like to be seen as no more threatening than Turkey&#8217;s ruling AK party: Islamist Lite. (READ: Why the Muslim Brotherhood Are Egypt&#8217;s Best Democrats) Taken at face value, these are huge concessions. But many Egyptian liberals (and most Western commentators) are not sure they can take the Brotherhood at their word. &#8220;They cannot be trusted,&#8221; says Alaa Aswany, the novelist and prominent liberal voice. &#8220;They will say anything, make any deal to get power. But in the end, they don&#8217;t see a difference between the nation&#8217;s interests and their own.&#8221; Others, speaking privately, hint darkly about connections between the Brotherhood and Wahhabi groups in Saudi Arabia, but are unable to offer any tangible proof of foreign funding or influence. Such fears lead liberals to argue that any changes to the country&#8217;s constitution should be made before elections, even though Egyptians voted overwhelmingly in a March referendum to leave<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=5832&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Muslim Brotherhood Are Egypt&#8217;s Best Democrats</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, many Western commentators were surprised by the ease with which Iraq&#8217;s religious movements adapted to multiparty democracy. The Shi&#8217;ite groups, in particular, were quick to organize into political parties, set up grass-roots organizations across the country and form practical coalitions ahead of elections. Long assumed to be ideologically opposed to democracy, these groups showed they were in fact brilliantly adaptable. Their leaders, despite having little experience in kissing babies, campaigned like seasoned pros. In contrast, Iraq&#8217;s liberal parties were rank amateurs. Their leaders, despite having spent decades in exile in Western democracies (whereas most Islamist exiles were confined to places like Iran and Syria), seemed not to understand how democracy works: people like Iyad Allawi and Ahmed Chalabi had an air of entitlement, assuming that people would vote for them merely because they were modern, progressive and famous. They didn&#8217;t bother to create a national party infrastructure, nor did they care to campaign. Instead, they held all-day salons in the manner of medieval monarchs giving audience to the elite. Something very similar is unfolding in Egypt. Of all the political groups to have emerged since the fall of Hosni Mubarak — including the myriad youth movements, secular parties, leftists and remnants of the old National Democratic Party — the Muslim Brotherhood seem to have the best understanding of how democracy works. The Islamist group may have taken a backseat to the liberal youth movement that brought down the dictator, but it has wasted little time in preparing for the post-Mubarak era. Although the generals in charge of Egypt&#8217;s transition have not yet announced a date for the parliamentary elections (which are expected in the fall), the Brotherhood is already campaigning vigorously, in Cairo and the countryside. The youth movement, on the other hand, seems unable to break out of protest mode. (PHOTOS: Portraits of the Revolutions in the Arab World) The gap between the two sides was exposed in a mid-March referendum on constitutional reforms. The Brotherhood mobilized a massive &#8220;yes&#8221; vote<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=5802&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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