Democracy Assistance Dialogue (DAD): Political Pluralism and Electoral Processes in the broader Middle East and North Africa

List of Signatories - Venice, 21-23 July 2005

Mr Nicholas Abbott Regional Expert Engaging with the Islamic World Group, FCO
UK
 
Mr Ammar Abdulhamid Director DarEmar / Tharwa Project Syria
 
Dr Abdulkhaleq Abdulla Professor Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies - Ain University United Arab Emirates
 
Mr Abdel Rahman Abu Arafeh Director The Arab Thought Forum Palestine
 
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- Baharna Board Member Al Tajeed Cultural and Social Society Bahrain
 
Ms Rana Ahmed Ghanem Al-Dubai Chief Cultural Division Unionist Popular Organization Yemen
 
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 Correspondent Al-Quds Al-Arabi, daily independent newspaper Yemen
 
Ms Jamila Ali Coordinator of DAD Program HRITC Yemen
 
Mr Abdulwahab Alkebsi Senior Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa National Endowment for Democracy USA
 
Mr Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja President Bahrain Centre for Human Rights Bahrain
 
Mr Fouad Allam Journalist La Repubblica Italy
 
Imam Al Sadig Al Saddig Abdelrahman Al-Mahdi Chairman of the Umma Party Umma Party Sudan
 
Mr Mohamed Abdul Malik Al-Mutawakil Professor of Political Science Sana'a University Yemen
 
Mr Mohamed Al-Tayeb Chairman Committee for Human Rights, Liberties & Civic Organizations, Shura Council Yemen
 
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 Human Rights Iraq
 
Mr Daoud Barakat Board Member SHAML Palestinian Diaspora and Refugee Centre Palestine
 
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 Morocco
 
Ms Rhizlaine Benachir Vice coordinatrice Nationale, et élue municipale Souissi Rabat Jossour Forum des Femmes Marocaines Municipalité Souissi Rabat Morocco
 
Mr Noureddine Ben Braham MP Algerian Parliament Algeria
 
Mr Joseph Bolton Foreign Service Officer Engaging with the Islamic World Group, FCO UK
 
The Hon Emma Bonino MEP European Parliament Italy
 
Mr Massimo Bordin Director Radio Radicale Italy
 
Ms Amina Bouayach Vice-Président Organisation Marocaine des Droits de l’Homme Morocco
 
Mr Marino Busdachin Secretary-General Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) Italy
 
Mr Stefano Carluccio Director Critica Sociale Italy
 
Ms Rola Dashti Chair Kuwait economic society Kuwait
 
Mr Koen De Feyter Professor, E.MA Academic Coordinator European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) Italy
 
The Hon Gianni De Michelis MEP European Parliament EU
 
Mr Gianfranco Dell'Alba Secretary General NPWJ Italy
 
Dr Elhabib Eddaqqaq Member Political Office of Constitutional Union Party/ Professor of Law Morocco
 
Mr Saad Dine El Otmani Secrétaire Général Parti de la Justice et du Développement Morocco
 
Mr Abdellah El Oualladi Président Organisation Marocaine des Droits Humains Morocco
 
Ms Hoda El-Khatib Lawyer - Professor at Saint Joseph University Organisation for Civil Act Lebanon
 
Mr Hassan Elsawaf Businessman Khaldun Centre for Developmental Studies Board Egypt
 
Dr Reza Eslami Soema Assistant Professor UNESCO Chair for Human Rights, Peace and
Democracy, Faculty of Law, Shahid Beheshti University,
Tehran, Iran
 
Mr Said Essoulami Executive Director Centre for Media Freedom, Middle East and North Africa
Morocco
 
Dr Munira A Fakhro Associate Professor University of Bahrain Bahrain
 
Mr Mohamed Farid-Hassanein Former Member of Parliament Egypt
 
Mr Niccolo' Figà- Talamanca Program Director NPWJ Belgium
 
Mr Horst Fischer President European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) Germany
 
Mr David French Chief Executive Westminster Foundation for Democracy UK
 
Mr Farid Ghadry President Reform Party of Syria Syria
 
Mr Zeki Levent Gümrükçü Head of Policy Planning Department Ministry of Foreign Affair - Ankara, Turkey 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 (NED) USA
 
Mr Gabor Halmai Professor EIUC Latvia
 
Mr Bahey Eldin Hassan Director Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Egypt
 
Ms Barbara Ibrahim Regional Director Population Council, Cairo Egypt
 
Dr Saad Eddin Ibrahim Director Khaldun Centre for Developmental Studies Egypt
 
Mr Aboubakr Jamai Editor in Chief Le Journal Morocco
 
Mrs Shahida Nighat Jamil Barrister-at-law, Advocate, High Court of Sindh Former Federal
Minister of Law, Justice and Human Rights; and

Former Federal Minister of Environment, Local Government and Rural Development Pakistan
 
Ms Ghada Yusuf Jamsheer President of Women Violence Resistance Under Amnesty Supervision Women's Petition Committee Bahrain
 
Professor Habib Jenhani Professor Human Rights and Science College Tunisia
 
Mr Hisham Kassem Vice-Chairman and CEO Al Masry Al Youm – Daily Independent Egypt
 
Mr Salah Khalil Businessman Egypt

Ms Ellen Khouri Consultant and Trainer Human Rights and Democratisation Jordan
 
Mr Hussein Kneiber Correspondent al-Arabiya Belgium

Mr Wahid Labidi Political & Economic Specialist Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Regional Office, US Embassy, Tunis Tunisia
 
Mr Gerard Philippe Latulippe Directeur Résident National Democratic Institute (NDI) Morocco
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 Arab World Project" Lebanon
 
Professor Mona Makram- Ebeid Adjunct Professor/President Political Science Department, American University in Cairo/ Association for Advancement of Education Egypt
 
Dr Riad Malki Director General Panorama, The Palestinian Centre for the Dissemination of
Democracy and Community Development Palestine
 
Mr Mohsen Marzouk Algeria Project Director Freedom House Tunisia
 
The Hon Edward McMillan-Scott Vice-President European Parliament EU
 
Ms Mariam Memarsadeghi Senior Program Manager, Middle East and North Africa Freedom House USA
 
Mr Allal Mourad Coordinateur general Non-Governmental Platform for the EuroMed Civil Forum Tunisia
 
Mr Ahmad Nader Nadery Commissioner Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission Afghanistan
 
Mr Aktham Naisse Lawyer, President of C.D.F Committees for the Defense of Democratics and Human Rights in Syria 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 Corriere della sera Italy
 
Mr Walid Salem Coordinator Middle East Citizens Assembly (MECA) Palestine
 
Mr Sergio Scarantino Minister Plenipotentiary Ministry of Foreign Affairs Italy
 
Ms Laura Schulz Foreign Affairs Officer, Political and Women's Pillars Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative, U.S. Department
of State USA
 
Mr Mustafa Sediqi Journalist Tolo TV Afghanistan
 
Dr Emad El-Din Shahin Professor American University in Cairo Egypt
 
Mr Ashur Shamis Editor, Founding Member Libya Human and Political Development Forum Libya
 
Mr Mohamed Zaki Mahmoud Shamseldin Secretary of Imam Al Sadig Al Mahdi Umma Party Sudan
 
Mr Hussain Sinjari President Iraq Institute for Democracy Iraq
 
Mr Jourchi Slaheddine Vice President Tunisian League of Human Rights Tunisia
 
Mr Raji Sourani Director Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Palestine
 
Mr Roberto Spagnoli Journalist Radio Radicale Italy
 
Mr Antonio Spinelli Senior Program Officer, Electoral Processes International IDEA Sweden

Mr Sadeq Jawad Sulaiman Former Ambassador to Washington Oman
 
Mr George Ulrich Secretary General European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) Denmark
 
Mr Diego Vecchiato Director, International Relations Regione Veneto Italy
 
Mr Pierluigi Vigna Journalist Corriere Magazine Italy
 
Ms Tammy Wincup Foreign Affairs Officer Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative, U.S. Department of State USA
 
Professor Mohammed Zahi Mogherbi Professor of Political Science Garyounis University in Benghazi Libya