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 …
The ‘New Liberals’: can Egypt’s civil opposition save the revolution?
By Moataz El Fegiery The Arab spring came as a golden moment for Egypt’s popular, well-prepared Islamists to establish their political influence in the post-revolutionary political order. Two years after …
From tortured to tyrant
What’s shocking is not that Islamist currents have proven anti-democratic and anti-human rights, but how quickly they dropped the façade of the victim, writes Bahieddin Hassan “The security apparatus is not …
FJP and Ministry of Social Affairs: An Identical Vision for Civil Society in Egypt
The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood recently proposed a draft civil society law. Submitted by the Ministry of State for Administrative Development, led …
Open letter to President Obama
To President Barack Obama: Three years ago, I had the honour of meeting you in the White House as part of a delegation of some 50 human rights defenders from …
New Draft Law Aims to Criminalize Peaceful Demonstrations
BY: Ragab Saad On Wednesday, following increased protests throughout Egypt, the Ministry of Justice announced a draft law that seeks to restrict the right to demonstrate in public places. Since …