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...officials acknowledge their roots in Islamist parties. But they insist that they have changed, and that they respect Ataturk's separation of mosque and state. Secularist charges of creeping fundamentalism are just a way to scare voters, they say. "It's a witch hunt," says Ali Kemal Eksioglu, 30, an AKP youth leader who has been working to get out the vote in Kadikoy, Istanbul's largest, wealthiest and most traditionally secularist voting district. "I mean, it's 2007, and they are still asking, 'Why is that woman wearing a head scarf?' It's too much." As he sees...
...each province is different in terms of its mix of tribalism and sectarianism. In predominately Shi'ite southern Iraq, tribal authority is weak these days. Militia leaders like Moqtada al-Sadr and religious figures such as Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani hold sway over sheiks. Diyala province is largely Sunni, like Anbar and Salahuddin, but not nearly as homogenous as those two western areas. And Baghdad, despite ferocious sectarian cleansing campaigns on both sides, remains a stronghold for both camps...
...three decades that "every day is an on-air audition." Siegel guided viewers with his encyclopedic knowledge and wit, enthusiastically hailing the films he liked as "Great!" and injecting pans with New York City--style humor (of Players, he said some whitefish he had eaten "showed more emotion than Ali MacGraw does"). He was 63 and had colon cancer...
...Ubaid and Ali, the engaged couple, have come to the same conclusion but for purely economic reasons. He figures he needs to earn three times as much as he does now to afford married life. There are few such jobs in Baghdad, so he plans to leave the country, joining the massive exodus of Iraqis that has already swelled the populations of neighboring Jordan and Syria. But Ali is late: whatever jobs may have existed in Jordanian and Syrian universities have been scooped up by Iraqi academics who got there first; Ali has made one futile job-hunting trip...
...daughters, to remain indoors. Only the bravest go out for dinner, since restaurants are popular targets for suicide bombers. The lovers' lane near the Jadhariya bridge is marked by the burned and twisted remains of two car bombs; a police checkpoint ensures there is no loitering. Like Ubaid and Ali, many young couples have to conduct their relationships on the phone...