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December 10, 2012 - The Toronto Star
Toronto Star: Women waiting to be heard in post-Mubarak Egypt
Women’s voices were some of the loudest in the Tahrir Square protests that drove Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from office nearly two years ago.
December 07, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Charter enshrining Shariah at core of Egypt crisis
One of Egypt's most prominent ultraconservative Muslim clerics had high praise for the country's draft constitution.
December 06, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Terror fight shifts to Africa
Military counterterrorism officials are seeking more capability to pursue extremist groups in Africa and elsewhere that they believe threaten the U.S., and the Obama administration is considering asking Congress to approve expanded authority to do it.
December 03, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Orthodox leader deepens progressive stance on environment
At a conference near Istanbul last June, the chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall spoke about the endangered habitat of what she called “our closest relatives.”
December 03, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Pakistan reels with violence against Shiites
Calligraphers linger at the gates of an ancient graveyard in this brooding city in western Pakistan, charged with a macabre and increasingly in-demand task: inscribing the tombstones of the latest victims of the sectarian death squads that openly roam these streets.
December 02, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: In foiled Jordanian terror plot, officials see hand of resurgent al-Qaeda in Iraq
The plan was to unleash mayhem across an entire city and “bring Amman to its knees,” in the words of one security official.
November 30, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: In Turkey, forging a new identity
“There are liquids that are not mixable — it’s like that.”
November 30, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Some wish Islam would inform climate debate
At Friday prayers in Qatar's most popular mosque, the imam discussed the civil war in Syria, the unrest in Egypt and the U.N. endorsement of an independent state of Palestine.
November 28, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: In Egypt and Tunisia, Salafis move from prisons to parliaments
Mehdi Mezmi rediscovered Islam eight years ago via a website, then illegal to access in his native Tunisia, called Minbar at-Tawheed wal Jihad – “The Forum for God’s Oneness and Holy Struggle.”
November 24, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Afghan’s Shiite minority fears a return to old ostracism
For the past week, the Afghan capital has been draped with black cloth arches and festooned with huge colored banners. Mournful, pounding chants pour from loudspeakers across the city, filling the air with slow martial intensity.
November 21, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Saudi reforms detour through Vienna faith center
The road to reform in Saudi Arabia is long and winding. In the rigidly restricted field of religion, the path is so circuitous that part of it even runs through traditionally Catholic countries like Austria and Spain.
November 19, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Syrian Islamist groups reject Western-backed opposition, declare Islamic state in key city
Syria's increasingly powerful Islamist rebel factions rejected the country's new Western-backed opposition coalition and unilaterally declared an Islamic state in the key battleground of Aleppo, a sign of the seemingly intractable splits among those fighting to topple President Bashar Assad.
November 13, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: New opposition head gives renewed hope to Syrians
Syria's political opposition has struggled to prove its relevance amid the civil war under a leadership largely made up of academics and exiled politicians.
November 13, 2012 - The Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Growing ties between Egypt, Turkey may signal new regional order
Egypt and Turkey are forging an alliance that showcases two Islamist leaders maneuvering to reshape a Middle East gripped by political upheaval and passionate battles over how deeply the Koran should penetrate public life.
November 12, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Angry Turkish secularists plant their flag at trial
The protesters converge each day on the village of little tents dotting the landscape here outside a sprawling prison and courthouse.
November 11, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Tunisia battles over pulpits, and revolt’s legacy
On the Friday after Tunisia’s president fell, Mohamed al-Khelif mounted the pulpit of this city’s historic Grand Mosque to deliver a full-throttle attack on the country’s corrupt culture, to condemn its close ties with the West and to demand that a new constitution implement Shariah, or Islamic law.
November 09, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: A vague role for religion in Egyptian draft constitution
After months of fierce debate over the place of Islam in government, the assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt has settled on a compromise that opens the door to more religion in governance but mainly guarantees that the issue will continue to roil politics, the Parliament and the courts for many years to come.
November 08, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Pakistan's minority Hindus feel under attack
They came after dusk and chanted into the night sky "Kill the Hindus, kill the children of the Hindus," as they smashed religious icons, ripped golden bangles off women's arms and flashed pistols.
November 05, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Coptic church chooses pope who rejects political role
A blindfolded 6-year-old reached into a glass bowl on Sunday to pick the first new Coptic pope in more than 40 years, a patriarch who promises a new era of integration for Egypt's Christian minority as it grapples with a wave of sectarian violence, new Islamist domination of politics, and internal pressures for reform.
November 03, 2012 - The Economist
Economist: Contagion of discontent
IT IS more than a century since cartographers drew east Africa’s coastal strip as a single territory.
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