Jane K. sent us this item on a Daily Star (Lebanon) opinion, in which Rami Khouri reports from the 2nd Forum on Democracy and Political Reform in the Arab World on why hope still persists for Arab democracy:
By Rami G. Khouri Daily Star (Lebanon) May 30, 2007
The 2nd Forum on Democracy and Political Reform in the Arab World that I attended this week in Doha, Qatar, is an exercise in hope and determination, despite the lack of practical results to date. The Arab world remains the world's last collectively non-democratic region, having resisted the repeated attempts of Arab democrats, liberals, human rights activists, Islamists and constitutionalists to bring their societies into the growing club of democracies around the world.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
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