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		<title>The End of Innocence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 02:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nir Boms The Obama administration should learn the lessons of Bill Clinton&#8217;s experience in the Middle East, as expounded in Martin Indyk&#8217;s new book. Innocent or not?  Indyk&#8217;s lessons to a new American Administration Thoughts about Martin Indyk&#8217;s new book,  Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East ( [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illiberal Democracy on the Rise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[published in THE WEEKLY STANDARD Recent events highlight the need for liberal institutions in the Middle East; here&#8217;s how to promote them. by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross &#38; Nir Boms 04/13/2006 12:00:00 AM When Americans learned that 41-year-old Afghan citizen Abdul Rahman could be put to death for converting to Christianity, they were outraged. Chuck Colson spoke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Democratic Middle East?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nir Boms and Erick Stackelbeck FrontPageMagazine.com &#124; October 4, 2004 On Oct. 1, over 30 Middle Eastern American groups gathered at the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C., to discuss something that is only whispered about in their native lands: freedom. The Middle Eastern American Convention for Freedom and Democracy, a conference organized [...]]]></description>
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