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the party-list vote. More striking still was the performance of Nour,
the Party of Light, a rival representing the puritanical Salafist strain
of Islam. Partly inspired ... despite doubts that it could unite
an array of often squabbling Salafist factions, Nour won 24% of the
party-list vote and 21% of the seats. The biggest secular party ... narrow dirt street in the
village of Nazla, Wagih al-Shimi insists his Nour party would have
done even better if the Brothers had not cheated. Blind from birth
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Region: A Comparative Study of Gulf and Mediterranean
Arab Countries
Samia Satti 0. M. Nour
August 2005
UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY, Institute for New Technologies, Keizer Karelplein 19, 6211 TC Maastricht ... REGION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GULF
AND MEDITERRANEAN ARAB COUNTRIES
Samia Satti 0. M. Nour*
Abstract
This paper employs both descriptive and comparative approaches to discuss science and
technology ... engineering instead of enrolment in technical subjects- (tall, 1999: p.52).
See also Muysken and Nour (2005) and UNDP—AHDR (2003).
20
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Figure 3. Percentage enrolment at tertiary education
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saved Egypt from a theocrati= dictatorship.
How, then, to expla=n people like Ayman Nour? A secular, pro-democracy dissident for a decade =efore the 2011
revolution, Nour mounted ... against strongman Hosni Mubarak=in 2005 — and
chttp://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/06/01/69224/egyptians-wor=y-that-obama-will.html> fo= his trouble.
Now Nour is in exil=, in Lebanon, having been warned to leave the country or face arrest ... have been relentless opponents of military rule and the Mubara=-era civilian
establishment. Nour's Ghad party briefly joined with anoth=r secular party in an electoral alliance with
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After the Egyptian Revolution, the Salafist Call
entered the political fray and created the Nour Party, which quickly became
the second largest party in parliament after the Muslim Brotherhood ... People's
Assembly), Emad Abdel-Ghafour (the president's adviser) and Nader
Bakkar (the Nour Party spokesman).
'Action Salafism'
As the Salafist Call was emerging in Alexandria, young Salafists were ... mosques. Its most
famous figures are Gamal El-Mawakbi, Safwat Nour El-Din, Abdel-Razeq
Hamza, Abul Wafa Darweesh, Mohamed Khalil Harms, Mohamed Abdel-
Wahab El-Banna and Abdel-Zaher
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segregated to separate men from women? (Such measures are
supported by the Salafist Al-Nour Party, which has so far received
18.5 percent of the vote.) For the Copts ... political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party
(FJP)) and the Salafi Al-Nour Party—are well aware that within that
term, their constituents will expect them to deliver on some ... menace the rights of others. But among the MPs
of the Salafi Al-Nour, it seems likely that there will be a divide; many
Salafist members of parliament envision
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they won't -- it will not be real
elections," he said.
Even the Salafist Nour Party, which has participated in the post-Morsy
transition and seemingly won the military ... system. The current regime "is returning back to
the time of Mubarak," Sharkiya-based Nour Party leader and former
parliamentarian Gamel Metwally, told me. "And the explanations ... nonsense."
While Metwally said that the Nour Party intends to continue participating
in the transition "to preserve the Islamic identity for the Egyptian people,"
he acknowledged that it -- unlike
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penchant for back-room politicking.
More puritanical Islamists, such as the Salafists whose Nour Party came a
surprisingly close second to the Ikhwan in Egypt's elections, accuse the
Brothers ... albeit heavily rigged ones, using nominally "independent" candidates —
and the more recently assembled Al-Nour party, a Salafist grouping, born
from a movement that has traditionally shied away from politics ... Brotherhood
has more in common with liberal parties than it does with Al-Nour —
presenting potential future dilemmas over alliance-building. There are
still undoubted tensions between the Brotherhood
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Going one step further, the
Brotherhood's more militant cousin, the Salafist party Al Nour,
accused the American NGOs of trying to "create discord between
the Muslim Brotherhood ... Salafis." Based on the court
documents, one Al Nour official observed, the NGO workers "can
be considered spies."
Despite the prevalent view that the United States — in league with
Israel
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allies won more than 45% of the 508 seats, the Salafists' Al
Nour and its partners, 25%.
The Brotherhood's strategy has been to avoid giving the SCAF an excuse ... figures capable of
mobilizing voters. Other candidates have been banned, including the liberal
Ayman Nour — who, like Shater, was imprisoned under Mubarak — but
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bore a close resemblance to one proposed in recent days by the ultraconservative
Islamist Nour Party, and suggested that he was seeking to bring in at least some Islamists ... well as
liberals and leftists to support the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Nour Party, which quickly
endorsed the plan, had joined other political groups in accusing Mr. Morsi
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