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For the first time in its history, Egypt will hold a multi-candidate presidential election this year. Other signs of change abound: a governmental human rights commission has just issued a surprisingly frank report, the nation's judges are demanding freedom from political interference, and the libel law is being amended to be less intimidating to journalists. Still, many Egyptian reformers are expressing doubts about whether the presidential election will be fair and whether the government is committed to change that goes beyond the cosmetic. At the center of the Egyptian reform movement is Hisham Kassem, chief executive of the independent daily, Al Masri Al Youm, chairman of the Egyptian Organization of Human Rights, and vice president of the new political party al-Ghad. He will be joined in discussing the state of political change in Egypt by Amr Hamzawy, a distinguished political scientist who has taught at Cairo University and the Free University of Berlin and who is currently a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and others.