11-03-2008, 02:15 PM
<i><b>For the last few days I have been seeing the American political process firsthand as part of a delegation of women from the Middle East organized by American University and the US State Department. We started by meeting with President George W. Bush, but since that time, we have been traveling across the country in the time running up to election day. What we have seen is truly an inspiration and an eye-opener about the potential for participatory democracy in our part of the world.</b></i>
In the Arab world, limited elections, however, hardly give one a taste of the incredible power of democracy as it is practiced in the United States...
The above was written by Samar Fatany and appears in the November 3rd 2008 edition of the Saudi Arabian newspaper "Arab News". The entire article can be found here:
Letter from America