Word: mostafa
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...soft revolution's voices are widening the Islamic political spectrum. Mostafa Nagar, 28, an Egyptian dentist, runs a blog called Waves in the Sea of Change, which is part of an Internet-based call for a renaissance in Islamic thinking. Yet Nagar belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood, the largest Islamist movement in the Middle East. His blog launched a wave of challenges from within the Brotherhood to its proposed manifesto, which limits the political rights of women and Christians. Nagar called for dividing the religious and political wings of the movement, a nod to the separation of mosque and state...
...Just take my word for it," assures Mostafa Tajzadeh, a former deputy Interior Minister in Khatami's cabinet and currently a close aide. "In Khatami-speak, that's as close as it gets to a declaration before he announces his candidacy publicly, probably in the coming week...
...wife Aida is an early-childhood teacher. They have two adult children - daughter Laila, a lawyer, lives in London; son Mostafa, an IT manager, resides in Cairo...
...also the way they have been announced," said Jalal Khoshchehreh, an editor at the center-reformist newspaper Kargozaran, echoing the sentiment not only among reformists, but also among conservatives in the Wide Coalition of Principalists, who are critical of Ahmadinejad's policies. Both protested the announcement by Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi - before the counting was even complete - that the United Principalists had won 71% of the seats. "The Interior Minister who is supposed to be a neutral body clearly crossed a red line," wrote one reformist commentator...
...Anyone with any connection to the reformists was ... disqualified," says Mostafa Tajzadeh, one of the directors of the United Reformists Coalition (URC) election campaign. "We had a lot of long discussions about this, and, in the end, decided not to boycott the elections." Tajzadeh, who was himself disqualified, explains the reformists' motivation: "If we don't participate, the entire majlis will fall into the hands of the conservatives and the situation will be one of homogeneous despotism. We can't let that happen...