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...Egypt. "I have resigned myself to paying the price," he says, "for what I have been fighting for." Ibrahim's ordeal began with a midnight knock on his door in June 2000. It has made him a celebrated prisoner of conscience at a time of increasing pressure on the Arab world to democratize. Journalists and human-rights groups have called for the charges against him to be dropped. Ibrahim, who teaches at Cairo's American University, says he "was humbled and heartened by the support I got worldwide." He holds a U.S. passport but says...
...Palestinian leader never expected his old left-wing negotiating partners to lose so badly. "He was shocked," says a close aide, "as if he had been told bad news about his own health." Netanyahu's game plan isn't without possible pitfalls. Ditching Arafat would upset European and some Arab governments. And once the U.S. is rid of Saddam Hussein, Washington doves may push for a tougher line on Israel to conciliate an Arab world troubled by the American war against Iraq. And Sharon and Netanyahu aren't promising that their hard line will end the conflict. They believe they...
Modern slavery afflicts people of all races, on every populated continent. For now, let’s consider the case of Africa. In the Sudan, Arab troops from the North (which is controlled by a Taliban-like Islamic government) carry out slave raids in the ethnically black South, destroying villages, killing thousands of men, and kidnapping their women and children. Victims are forced to march north for days with little food. Any resistance is met with brutal physical punishment or death. Once the newly-enslaved blacks arrive in the North, they are forced to convert to Islam...
...situation in the Sudan is not unique. For instance, in another African country, Mauritania, blacks are born into slave-holding Arab families and treated as non-human property to be bought, sold, traded or inherited...
...Despite his popularity and the scale of his mandate, Sharon finds himself unable to fulfill many of the wishes of his most fervent supporters, but not because of a lack of parliamentary support. That trend may even intensify if the Bush administration finds itself needing greater Arab support to manage the complex and dangerous task of occupying a post-Saddam Iraq...