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Of all the changes now taking place in the Middle East, perhaps the most hopeful is the growing political presence of women, long the special victims of dictatorship and extreme Islamic culture. In Kuwait, women were recently granted full political rights, a long-sought recognition. In Egypt, assaults on female demonstrators at an anti-regime rally prompted hundreds to take to the streets in protest, and seem to have galvanized some kind of women's movement. In Iran, where one of the region's most repressive regimes ...