Ikhwan

Three issues have plagued the region for decades and threaten to derail progress at every turn. I call them the Mideast's "Stink Bombs" -- hyper-divisive issues that inflame passions and serve a politicized minority only.

My conversation with my friend Negma is fragmented and she lets out a torrent of words -- she knows that she might be cut off any minute.

Egypt's legislative elections held on Sunday were a sham from the start. A number of opposition parties are boycotting the elections in protest of the government's machinations.

KUALA LUMPUR - Rohaya Mohamad, 44, is an articulate, bespectacled medical doctor who studied at a university in Wales. Juhaidah Yusof, 41, is a shy Is...