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 …
The National Council for Human Rights, Lacking Human Rights Defenders
When the Shura Council appointed new members to the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), the process revealed an obvious political bias in the formation. The NCHR, tasked with defending …
Egypt’s New Constitution: Entrenched Despotism
President Mohamed Morsi’s recent constitutional declaration was a blow to the goals of the revolution; to achieve a real democratic transformation, to establish the rule of law, a separation of powers, and an …