Moataz El Fegiery Prominent young activists are in jail, stigmatization of human rights defenders has increased and further legal measures against human rights groups are expected. One could hardly be …
The Unconstitutionality of the Media “Council”
Mona Nader[i] Media regulation was a theme in the declaration of July 3 and an important pivot in the amendments to the constitution. In this regard, we witnessed a set …
Egyptian diplomats should drop conspiracy theory*
CIHRS If you ask any independent observer to single out states that work to sabotage the UN Human Rights Council to the core, Egypt will be at the top of …
Truth and reconciliation?
Transitional Justice in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia
Transitional justice is an urgent priority in post-revolutionary Arab states. Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have yet to properly embark on inclusive transitional justice processes to address human rights abuses of the past and heal the deep divides caused by turbulent political transitions, thus paving the way for national reconciliation. The record so far has been mixed, with Tunisia making some progress while Egypt and Libya lag very much behind.
Pharaohs and Caliphs
When Egypt’s military leaders gave Field Marshal Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi the go-ahead to run in the presidential elections, they set the stage for the next pharaoh, a leader who will rule …
Egypt and political violence
Across Egypt’s varied governments in the last 40 years, one characteristic unites them all: a common failure to respond to the root causes of political violence, writes Bahieddin Hassan ‘The …
Administrative repression
Originally Posted in Al-Ahram weekly By: Mohamed Zaree Egypt’s draft NGO law reproduces the tools the Mubarak regime developed to repress dissent and innovation in society, writes Mohamed Zaree On …
How will history remember President Morsi?
Originally Posted in Al-Ahram weekly By: Bahieddin Hassan Mohamed Morsi has done more than generations of secularists to convince Egyptians that politics and religion shouldn’t mix, writes Bahieddin Hassan President …
Femen: You’re Doing it Wrong
Originally Posted in Al Akhbar English By: Paola Salwan Daher, Joseph Daher In a Marxist interpretation of feminism, the way we understand it, feminism is a revolutionary current that …