OCCUPIED ARAB WORLD (2005)

[Issue number in brackets]


(181) IRAQ: US designed elections beginning to shape political life in post-Saddam Iraq
(181) IRAQ: The growth and institutionalization of sectarianism in the new Iraq
(181) EGYPT: Egypt still preferring to serve US instead of exercising its power
(182) OCCUPIED PALESTINE: Israel presses Abbas to prove his worth as it maintains its pursuit of key objectives
(182) OCCUPIED PALESTINE: Flawed elections provide Abbas with only a limited mandate
(182) SYRIA: Despite controversy,
supposed Russian missiles threaten no one
(183) IRAQ: Shi’i success in elections does not settle questions about country’s political future
(183) SYRIA: Assassination of Rafik Hariri increases
US pressure
(183) KUWAIT: Kuwait sliding into instability because of its unconditional support for the US
(184) OCCUPIED PALESTINE: Cairo Declaration confirms Hamas’s centrality in the Palestinian political movement
(184) EGYPT: Mubarak to permit multi-candidate presidential elections
(184) IRAQ: Government paralysed by post-election politicking
(184) LEBANON: Ripples of Hariri’s assassination continue to shape Lebanese politics
(185) OCCUPIED PALESTINE: Increasing Israeli abuses raise spectre of a third intifada
(185) EGYPT: Civil associations increase political pressure on Mubarak regime
(185) ALGERIA: Political reforms target public corruption
(186) IRAQ: Al-Zarqawi reportedly wounded as resistance intensifies
(186) YEMEN: Zaydi leaders offer government to end uprising
(186) EGYPT: Crackdown on Ikhwan opposition to election plans
(187) OCCUPIED PALESTINE:
Hamas popularity rattles Israelis and forces postponement of PLC elections
(187) EGYPT: Anger as Condoleezza Rice lectures on democracy but backs Mubarak
(188) EGYPT:
Mubarak embarrassed as more boycott election
(189) EGYPT: Surprise as Ikhwan leader advises Egyptians to vote
(189)
(190) EGYPT: Multi-candidate presidential polls
prove to be only a more sophisticated form of façade
(190) SYRIA: Syria coming under pressure as US targets “low hanging fruit”
(191) IRAQ: Approval of new constitution still leaves massive political uncertainties in
Iraq
(191) SYRIA: Syria ill-equipped to deal with increasing political and diplomatic pressure
(191) EGYPT: Few hopes for
parliamentary elections after farcical presidential polls
(191) ALGERIA: Reconciliation charter offers more to the military than to Islamic movement
(192) EGYPT: Establishment shaken by successes of Ikhwan al-Muslimeen in parliamentary elections

(192) YEMEN: Anti-Islam policies harming children, not “terrorists”


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