Egypt’s Uneasy Party Politics

How well-founded are Western concerns that the nascent parliaments of Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain will be captured by antidemocratic Islamists and lead to the ‘Talibanization’ of the Gulf?

After a decade of partial liberalization begun by the late King Hussein, freedoms are now being rolled back by an anxious regime.

Events surrounding Turkey's 2007 elections reveal a country with a vibrantly democratic political sphere and a society badly split over the role of Islam in national life.