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...Democracy, The Morning After," columnist Joe Klein criticized President George W. Bush's policy of promoting democracy in the Middle East [Feb. 6], stating, "From Afghanistan to Egypt, not one country that has had an election in the past year has emerged more stable as a result of the experience." But what is the alternative? Democracy is surely an achievement, and until someone has a better plan for Iraq, I will back Bush...
...then, much later, dug up again. Robinson reports that a leather-bound codex containing the alleged 5th century Coptic version was excavated in Egypt and emerged on the antiquities market in 1983 at a price of $3 million. It was badly damaged and apparently at one point had been torn in half. It is now possessed by a group called the Maecenas Foundation, and in 2004 a Coptic expert named Rodolphe Kasser announced that he was reassembling and translating it. "There are huge holes in it, unfortunately," says Mario Roberty, Maecenas' director. "But I'm astonished at how successful scientists...
...early 8-bit composers led to similar innovations. The usage of the multi-metered composition keeps the audience from tiring quickly of what is by technical necessity a short tune (most non-medley tracks on the Advantage album are under two minutes in length). The Advantage cover of the "Egypt" theme from Double Dragon III is a typical result; as it elaborates on its pentatonic sensibility with meandering guitar lines, the song brings a fresh sound to a well-worn tonal range. While this music shares a parallel creation to that of the Baroque masterpieces, the actual arrangement...
Hamouda and other Muslims across the Middle East point out that the eruption of rage over the cartoons coincided with the electoral success of religious parties in Egypt, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, as well as the escalating confrontation over Iran's nuclear ambitions. Those developments have emboldened forces in the region who benefit from seeing the frustration felt by Muslims about their lives channeled into hostility toward the West, forces that range from radical clerics to secular Arab autocrats. In that sense, the cartoon uproar may have a lot less to do with religion or culture than with politics...
...high risk of rewarding fundamentalist groups that have little interest in tamping down anti-Western attitudes. The popularity of Islamists may be discomfiting to the West, but it increasingly seems to be the bargain required for implanting democracy in the Islamic world. Says Mohammed Abdel Koddus, a member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: "People are looking for alternatives, and the only alternative they see is Islam...