This is the best news I have read in a WHILE!
Freedom House reports that more than 80 activists and scholars of the region are calling on Obama not to abandon democracy building via an open letter to the President issued this afternoon at the Press Club.
It is an amazing (4 page long) list of signatures, really a who's who in Middle East everything and anything - individuals from ALL fields: policy groups, activist orgs, academics, journalists, state dept officials (Morton Halperin, former dir of policy planning). Very comprehensive.
Among them are Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who spoke in the Fall at a POMED (Project on Middle East Democracy) panel at GWU with academic activist Marc Lynch. While he was here he also lobbied congress to attach reform requirements to funding that goes states like Egypt, his home country where he (a democracy advocate) was imprisoned for many years.
POMED, by the way, is one of the best organizations out there advocating serious democratic reform in the region.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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