NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE

Workshop on Political Pluralism and Electoral Processes in the broader Middle East and North Africa

21 – 23 July 2005 Monastery of San Nicolò, Venice

PARTICIPANT LIST

Name Position Affiliation Country Mr Nicholas Abbott Regional Expert Engaging with the Islamic World UK Group, FCO Mr Ammar Abdulhamid Director DarEmar / Tharwa Project Syria Dr Abdulkhaleq Abdulla Professor Faculty of Humanities and Social United Arab Studies - Ain University Emirates Mr Abdel Rahman Abu Director The Arab Thought Forum Palestine Arafeh Ms Selma Acuner Program Officer TESEV's Foreign Policy Program Turkey Mr Mensur Akgün Program Director TESEV's Foreign Policy Program Turkey Mr Ezeddine Al Ashbahi Chair HRITC Yemen Dr Wajeeha Sadeq Al- Board Member Al Tajeed Cultural and Social Society Bahrain Baharna Ms Rana Ahmed Ghanem Chief Cultural Division Unionist Popular Yemen Al-Dubai Organization Mr Abdul Karim Al-Eryani Secretary General People's General Congress Yemen Ms Hatoon al-Fassi Professor King Saud University Saudi Arabia Mr Khaled al-Hammadi Journalist/Sana'a Al-Quds Al-Arabi, daily independent Yemen Correspondent newspaper Ms Jamila Ali Coordinator of DAD HRITC Yemen Program Mr Abdulwahab Alkebsi Senior Program National Endowment for Democracy USA Officer for the Middle East and North Africa Mr Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja President Bahrain Centre for Human Rights Bahrain Mr Fouad Allam Journalist La Repubblica Imam Al Sadig Al Saddig Chairman of the Umma Party Sudan Abdelrahman Al-Mahdi Umma Party Mr Mohamed Abdul Malik Professor of Political Sana'a University Yemen Al-Mutawakil Science Mr Mohamed Al-Tayeb Chairman Committee for Human Rights, Yemen Liberties & Civic Organizations, Shura Council

This is the provisional list of participants. Please contact the Secretariat with your corrections.

Workshop on Political Pluralism and Electoral Processes in the broader Middle East and North Africa 21 – 23 July 2005, Monastery of San Nicolò, Venice

Name Position Affiliation Country Dr Abdelaziz al-Uwaisheg Former UN Official Saudi Arabia Mr Khaled Alyemany Officer in Charge Ministry of Foreign Affairs Yemen Mr Amin Baktiar Former Minister of Iraq Human Rights Mr Daoud Barakat Board Member Palestinian Diaspora and Refugee Palestine SHAML Centre Ms Anna Barducci-Mahjar Journalist Il Foglio Italy Ms Amal Basha Chairperson Sister's Arab Forum for Human Rights Yemen Mr Ali Belhaj Président Maroc 2020 Ms Rhizlaine Benachir Vice coordinatrice Forum des Femmes Marocaines Morocco Nationale, et élue Municipalité Souissi municipale Souissi Rabat Jossour Mr Noureddine Ben MP Algerian Parliament Algeria Braham Mr Joseph Bolton Foreign Service Engaging with the Islamic World UK Officer Group, FCO The Hon Emma Bonino MEP Italy Mr Massimo Bordin Director Italy Ms Amina Bouayach Vice-Président Organisation Marocaine des Droits de Morocco l’Homme Mr Marino Busdachin Secretary-General Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Italy Organisation (UNPO) Mr Stefano Carluccio Director Critica Sociale Italy Ms Rola Dashti Chair Kuwait economic society Kuwait Mr Koen De Feyter Professor, E.MA European Inter-University Centre for Italy Academic Coordinator Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) The Hon Gianni De MEP European Parliament EU Michelis Mr Gianfranco Dell'Alba Secretary General NPWJ Italy Dr Elhabib Eddaqqaq Member Political Office of Constitutional Union Morocco Party/ Professor of Law Mr Saad Dine El Otmani Secrétaire Général Parti de la Justice et du Morocco Développement Mr Abdellah El Oualladi Président Organisation Marocaine des Droits Morocco Humains Ms Hoda El-Khatib Lawyer - Professor at Organisation for Civil Act Lebanon Saint Joseph University Mr Hassan Elsawaf Businessman Khaldun Centre for Developmental Egypt Studies Board Dr Reza Eslami Soema Assistant Professor UNESCO Chair for Human Rights, Iran Peace and Democracy, Faculty of Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

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Workshop on Political Pluralism and Electoral Processes in the broader Middle East and North Africa 21 – 23 July 2005, Monastery of San Nicolò, Venice

Name Position Affiliation Country Mr Said Essoulami Executive Director Centre for Media Freedom, Middle Morocco East and North Africa Dr Munira A Fakhro Associate Professor University of Bahrain Bahrain Mr Mohamed Farid- Former Member of Egypt Hassanein Parliament Mr Niccolo' Figà- Program Director NPWJ Belgium Talamanca Mr Horst Fischer President European Inter-University Centre for Germany Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) Mr David French Chief Executive Westminster Foundation for UK Democracy Mr Farid Ghadry President Reform Party of Syria Syria Mr Zeki Levent Gümrükçü Head of Policy Ministry of Foreign Affair - Ankara, Turkey Planning Department Turkey Ms Sabiha Gundogar Program Officer TESEV's Foreign Policy Program Turkey Ms Sanem Güner Program Officer TESEV's Foreign Policy Program Turkey Mr Guy Haarscher Professor Université Libre de Bruxelles, EIUC Belgium Ms Barbara Haig Vice President National Endowment for Democracy USA (NED) Mr Gabor Halmai Professor EIUC Mr Bahey Eldin Hassan Director Institute for Human Rights Egypt Studies (CIHRS) Ms Barbara Ibrahim Regional Director Population Council, Cairo Egypt Dr Saad Eddin Ibrahim Director Khaldun Centre for Developmental Egypt Studies Mr Aboubakr Jamai Editor in Chief Le Journal Morocco Mrs Shahida Nighat Jamil Barrister-at-law, Former Federal Minister of Law, Pakistan Advocate, High Court Justice and Human Rights; and of Sindh Former Federal Minister of Environment, Local Government and Rural Development Ms Ghada Yusuf Jamsheer President of Women Women's Petition Committee Bahrain Violence Resistance Under Amnesty Supervision Professor Habib Jenhani Professor Human Rights and Science College Mr Hisham Kassem Vice-Chairman and Al Masry Al Youm – Daily Independent Egypt CEO Mr Salah Khalil Businessman Egypt Ms Ellen Khouri Consultant and Human Rights and Democratisation Jordan Trainer Mr Hussein Kneiber Correspondent al-Arabiya Belgium Mr Wahid Labidi Political & Economic Middle East Partnership Initiative Tunisia Specialist (MEPI) Regional Office, US Embassy, Tunis

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Workshop on Political Pluralism and Electoral Processes in the broader Middle East and North Africa 21 – 23 July 2005, Monastery of San Nicolò, Venice

Name Position Affiliation Country Mr Gerard Philippe Directeur Résident National Democratic Institute (NDI) Morocco Latulippe Morocco Mr Jonathan Levack Program Assistant TESEV's Foreign Policy Program Turkey Ms Miriam Mafai Journalist La Repubblica Italy Mr Ziad Majed Project Coordinator IDEA "Democracy in the Lebanon Project" Professor Mona Makram- Adjunct Political Science Department, Egypt Ebeid Professor/President American University in Cairo/ Association for Advancement of Education Dr Riad Malki Director General Panorama, The Palestinian Centre for Palestine the Dissemination of Democracy and Community Development Mr Mohsen Marzouk Algeria Project Freedom House Tunisia Director The Hon Edward Vice-President European Parliament EU McMillan-Scott Ms Mariam Memarsadeghi Senior Program Freedom House USA Manager, Middle East and North Africa Mr Allal Mourad Coordinateur general Non-Governmental Platform for the Tunisia EuroMed Civil Forum Mr Ahmad Nader Nadery Commissioner Afghan Independent Human Rights Afghanistan Commission Mr Aktham Naisse Lawyer, President of Committees for the Defense of Syria C.D.F Democratics and Human Rights in Syria Mr Lapo Orlandi ERA Italy Ms Francesca Paci Journalist La Stampa Italy Mr Alireza Rabi Chair Middle East Citizens Assembly Iran Ms Rend Rahim Francke Executive Director Iraq Foundation Iraq Mr Gianni Riotta Journalist Italy Mr Walid Salem Coordinator Middle East Citizens Assembly (MECA) Palestine Mr Sergio Scarantino Minister Ministry of Foreign Affairs Italy Plenipotentiary Ms Laura Schulz Foreign Affairs Office of the Middle East Partnership USA Officer, Political and Initiative, U.S. Department Women's Pillars of State Mr Mustafa Sediqi Journalist Tolo TV Afghanistan Dr Emad El-Din Shahin Professor American University in Cairo Egypt Mr Ashur Shamis Editor, Founding Human and Political Libya Member Development Forum Mr Mohamed Zaki Secretary of Imam Al Umma Party Sudan Mahmoud Shamseldin Sadig Al Mahdi Mr Hussain Sinjari President Iraq Institute for Democracy Iraq Mr Jourchi Slaheddine Vice President Tunisian League of Human Rights Tunisia

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Workshop on Political Pluralism and Electoral Processes in the broader Middle East and North Africa 21 – 23 July 2005, Monastery of San Nicolò, Venice

Name Position Affiliation Country Mr Raji Sourani Director Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Palestine Mr Roberto Spagnoli Journalist Radio Radicale Italy Mr Antonio Spinelli Senior Program International IDEA Officer, Electoral Processes Mr Sadeq Jawad Sulaiman Former Ambassador Oman to Washington Mr George Ulrich Secretary General European Inter-University Centre for Denmark Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) Mr Diego Vecchiato Director, International Regione Italy Relations Mr Pierluigi Vigna Journalist Corriere Magazine Italy Ms Tammy Wincup Foreign Affairs Officer Office of the Middle East Partnership USA Initiative, U.S. Department of State Professor Mohammed Professor of Political Garyounis University in Benghazi Libya Zahi Mogherbi Science

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