Abstract
institutions. Unhappily symptomatic was the sentencing this past spring by an Egyptian state security court of a 62-year-old scholar, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, to seven years in prison. Ibrahim faced charges of treason and embezzlement when his highly regarded Ibn Khaldun Center published studies on voter registration and the persecution of Coptic Christians, and worse, for accepting independent funding from several European foundations. Given the abundance of such incidents, one can reasonably wonder whether Arab democracy is an impossible dream. Fifteen years ago, well before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the bombing of Iraq in the Gulf War, and the signing of the Oslo peace accords, the Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington expressed the conventional wisdom about the prospects for democratization around the world in his es-
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