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...Xinjiang's capital last week were strikingly familiar, because the same thing happens at home. "They make the same systematic separation of opponents, of Islamic groups, of opposition groups, and they arrest many and they kill many," says Essam el-Erian, a leader of Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood, comparing Arab regimes to the Chinese government. "How could they criticize the Chinese? They are in the same boat." (Read "A Brief History of the Uighurs...
...Indeed, the Uighurs and the popular Islamist Muslim Brotherhood have much to commiserate over. The Uighurs complain of religious and cultural persecution and economic marginalization by China's Han-dominated government. Not unlike Egypt's heavy-handed treatment of the Brotherhood - which is banned from participating in politics, and whose members are frequently subject to arrests and interrogations - China also limits the Uighurs' international travel and maintains a degree of control over the sermons they provide at local mosques...
...were Borges—one in Cambridge, on the Charles’ shore, the other in Geneva, on the banks of the Rhône; one lecturing at Harvard, the other composing his first poems; one cynical about the unstoppable march of History, the other waxing idyllic on the brotherhood of all men; one at the dusk of life, the other at its dawn...
...ongoing Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories has also helped fuel the rise of Islamic extremism, especially in countries that have unpopular peace agreements with Israel. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition to the American-backed Mubarak dictatorship, waged a small-scale terror campaign against both the government and the country's Coptic Christians during the 1990s. Since then, in an effort to derail the Islamist movement, the secular Mubarak regime has embraced some of its opponents' religiosity, and perhaps some of their anti-Coptic prejudice. Last month, in a supposed measure to prevent the spread...
...which is slated for limited release in the United States on May 8th—Cuarón hopes to show the multiple layers of Mexican society through the bond between Beto and Tato. “Ultimately, the main theme of this movie is brotherhood, and I think American audiences will relate to this,” he said. “Nothing is as endearing as brotherhood.” —Staff writer Alec E. Jones can be reached at aejones@fas.harvard.edu...