In this issue:

- A Press release regarding President Mubark's recent initiative on constitutional amendment

- The German College for Security Visits ICDS

- State Department Releases Human
Right Annual Report 2004

- Editorial: Giant Step For Arab Democracy? Saad Eddin Ibrahim.

- Is Constitutional Reform in the Offing?

- Egypt's Brutal Answer Washington Post - Thursday, February 24, 2005

- Democratic Transformation in the Arab World

- The Charade Continues - By Hassan Elsawaf

- Opposition's Reservations on Mubarak's Constitutional Initiative

- Copts and the Conversion Dilemma

- Women and the Quota System in Egypt

-Does the Proposed Constitutional Reform Provide the MB with Political Opportunities?