rat — Internal Affairs and Local Government • Jalal al-Digheily — Defense (formerly Military Affairs) • Mahmoud Shammam — Media Page 17 of 9 • Abdullah Shamia — Economic • Ali Al-Tarhuni — Finance and Oil • Anwar Al-Faytouri — Transportation and Communications • Abulgassim Nimr — Environment • Atia

e counselling pragmatic accommodation. So far, pragmatism and dialogue seem to have prevailed. Mainstream Islamists, such as the economy minister, Abdullah Shamia, speak not of imposing Islamic law but of respecting contracts with foreign oil companies, diversifying the economy away from oil dependence, wooin