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Some Fatah officials are wondering why Egypt is suddenly taking such an interest in Palestinian affairs. The reason, many speculate, may have less to do with optimism over Abbas' recent election than with growing pressure for Cairo to make sweeping changes in its authoritarian rule. In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush expressed hope that Egypt, having shown "the way toward peace in the Middle East, can now show the way toward democracy in the Middle East." That repeated, almost word for word, a line Bush used in a 2003 speech. As Bush's speechwriters...
...national vote. The idea that Hamas can be wished away or forcibly eliminated is simply a non-starter for Abbas; instead he plans to draw them into the political process and, on the basis of a consensus of national principles that he plans to negotiate with them in Cairo, to win their agreement for a cease-fire. Israel had rejected this approach while Arafat was alive, and it would be something of a retreat for Sharon to accept it now. But Abbas has given no sign he'd be willing to do things the way Israel and the U.S. would...
EDUCATION AND ACTIVISM Arafat studies engineering at Cairo University and becomes involved in the Palestinian cause...
CHILDHOOD Yasser Arafat is born in Cairo. After the death of his mother in 1933, he is sent to live with an uncle in Jerusalem...
...curious about the people behind the station. I grew up in Cairo, with state-run TV that consisted of a guy reading government press releases. Al-Jazeera is unique in that it's not state...