Era of Exclusion is Over
Rachid Al-Ghannouchi Rachid Al-Ghannouchi is the leader of Al-Nahda, the Tunisian Islamic Renaissance Movement. Since the ouster of former president Zine El-Abedine Ben Ali – under whose regime all...
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Dr. Mohammed Morsy The office of Professor Mohammed Morsy does not look like the lair of a man who will soon become one of Egypt’s premier political players. About 10ft square with a pot plant in one...
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Journalists and human right activists protest in front of the courthouse in Istanbul during the trial of two prominent Turkish journalists Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener on November 22, 2011.“Either appear...
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Theology students talking in the courtyard of Feyzieh seminary in the holy city of Qom, Iran, 1st February 1986. The number of Muslims who have lost their lives during the course of last two years of...
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Screen grab from the television adaptation of novel Huzur Sokağı shows protagonists Feyza (R) played by Selin Demiratar and Bilal, played by the pop singer Kudsi Huzur [hoo-ZOOR] n. tranquility, calm...
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: A file picture dated 1992 shows Abdallah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) with his guerillas at a training camp in the village of Helweh, in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley about two...
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Morocco’s King Mohammed VI. (AZZOUZ BOUKALLOUCH/AFP/Getty Images)Two weeks ago Marrakesh hosted the 20th Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Committee of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), bringing...
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