The site also conducts interviews with newsmakers, including Deputy Secretary of State William Joseph Burns; former Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department Anne-Marie Slaughter; former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel; and Mustafa Barghouti, a one-time candidate for Palestinian Authority president who has championed non-violent resistance to Israel.
Barghouti was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 by Máiread Maguire, who had won the prize in 1976, and who explained that she was “inspired by the life and work of Dr. Barghouti whose commitment to nonviolence, in his personal and public life, is truly in the Ghandian spirit.”
With his withdrawal, Mahmoud Abbas was seen as the clear favourite, with Mustafa Barghouti in second place.
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Among reported incidents was the arrest of Mustafa Barghouti by Israeli forces and his subsequent expulsion from East Jerusalem when he was going to hold an election speech there.
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Abbas won over 62% of the votes cast, with independent Mustafa Barghouti coming second, on just under 20%, and the remaining candidates far behind.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | Mustafa Sandal | Mustafa Güngör | Mustafa Barghouti | Omar Barghouti | Mustafa Pasha | Mustafa Altıoklar | Mustafa II | Mustafa Ben Halim | Mustafa Abdul Jalil | Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani | Nawshirwan Mustafa | Mustafa Manwar | Mustafa III | Mustafa Hamsho | Lala Mustafa Pasha's Caucasian campaign | Lala Mustafa Pasha | Isaiah Mustafa | Eddie Mustafa Muhammad | Ukrayinska Pravda's chief investigative journalists, Serhiy Leshchenko (center) and Mustafa Nayem | Tamim al-Barghouti | Syed Mustafa Kamal | Şehzade Mustafa | Seema Mustafa | Sam A. Mustafa | Mustafa Tlass | Mustafa Setmariam Nasar | Mustafa Şekip Birgöl | Mustafa Osman Ismail | Mustafa Mahmud |
He co-founded the Palestinian National Initiative in 2002 along with Edward Said, Mustafa Barghouti and Ibrahim Dakkak as a national platform for combining the struggle for national liberation and the return of refugees with the values of national unity, democracy and social justice.