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Source: http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20050302-094959-9735r.htm
Kifaya...in the Arab World
(Washington Times) Claude Salhani - A new phenomenon in the Middle East can be summed up in a single word - "kifaya," Arabic for "enough." People have had enough of the region's political and economic stagnation. There is growing frustration in the lack of participation in government. In recent weeks the word "kifaya," or "enough," has appeared on hundreds of posters carried by demonstrators in Cairo demanding Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak not run for a fifth term. The same word was seen in Beirut, carried after former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination by thousands at protests against Syrian occupation of Lebanon. Egypt's National Campaign for Change has adopted the word "Kifaya" as its name.