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Blog: Middle East Diary - 0 views
Egyptian Chronicles: Bugs At The ElBaradei Supporting Campaign !! - 0 views
News | Tunisia citizenship law to boost women's rights - 0 views
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the Tunisian government is working on a draft law that allows women to give the citizenship to their children
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According to the law, all children born to Tunisian mothers are to be given the Tunisian citizenship whether born inside or outside Tunisia and regardless of the father’s nationality and even if the father’s identity is unknown
[Sociology_of_islam] Public D... - 0 views
Syria Comment » Archives » What Does Turkey's "Yes" Vote Mean for Democracy - 0 views
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The coastal region is Kemalist, but the major cities, Istanbul and Ankara and most of Anatolia is for Erdoghan and the AK Party.
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Turkish voters decided that they want the army to return to its barracks and not deployed on Turkey’s streets. They want generals and judges off the front pages of the newspapers, where they have been so prominent for a century. Officers and judges have viewed themselves as the guardians of the state rather than of law.
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It strengthens gender equality and bars discrimination against children, the elderly, the disabled and veterans.
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Turks Approve Changes in Constitution - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Western diplomats said the vote would also embolden Mr. Erdogan’s increasingly assertive foreign policy. His Justice and Development Party has sought to make Turkey a player in regional diplomacy as a European bridge to other Muslim countries.
The Associated Press: Saudi telecom shuts websites violating Fatwa edict - 0 views
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Saudi Arabia's telecom regulator has shut down three websites that were violating a government decree limiting the issuance of religious edicts to the country's most senior group of clerics
Mobile phones, Internet essential in building democracies | Hamara News covers Politics... - 0 views
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Globally, one in 10 Internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. Often young and digitally savvy, these users spread information independently of governments and beyond manipulation by cultural and religious elites. The researchers found that day-to-day civic discourse, not cyber terrorism, is the most important political aspect of the Internet in Muslim countries, and that the Internet is helping societies get better at running elections, providing civic services and exposing corruption. Researching their topic, Howard and his team determined that "The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy" would be the first book to move beyond potential and hypothetical relationships between the spread of communication technology, such as mobile phones and the Internet, and empirical evidence about democratic outcomes.
Posters War in Egypt - 0 views
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