Egyptian and Iraqi intellectuals excluded the notion that Iraq’s unity was endangered after the fall of President Saddam Hussein’s regime against the Anglo American invasion of the country, and demanded …
After the Invasion of Iraq:What Future Awaits the Arab Order and the League of Arab States?
Mohammed El Sayed Said: The Arab order is “bankrupt” and lost the reason for its existence a long time ago. Ossama Saraya: There should be a new order observing regional …
Jurists and politicians: Anti-Terrorism Bill aims to prosecute opponents of the government corruption
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies CIHRS organized a symposium on ” Anti-Terrorism Act… Anti-who!?” on March 2nd 2008, with the participation of Counselor Ahmed Mekky, Vice President of …
Second independence: Towards an initiative for political reform in the Arab world
This pamphlet includes the recommendations of the CIHRS 8th Regional Forum of the Human Rights Movement (First Civil Forum parallel to the Arab Summit) and the relevant press releases. The …
IN IBN ROSHD SALON: INTELLECTUALS AND ACADEMICS: THE ABSENCE OF FREEDOM IS A MAJOR CAUSE OF ARAB AND MUSLIM BACKWARDNESS
A number of intellectuals and academics unanimously agreed that the absence of freedom in the Arab and Muslim world is a major reason behind its backwardness. However, they disagreed on …
The Beirut declaration on the regional protection of human rights
Beirut, Lebanon, June 10-12th 2003. CIHRS Fifth Regional Forum of the Human Rights Movement Concluding statement Here
Paris declaration on means of renewing religious discourse
Paris, France, 12-13 August 2003. Concluding statement of the 6th Regional Forum of the Human Rights Movement Here
Modernity between the pasha and the general
The book includes a number of studies wrote by Dr. Ali Mabrouk over a decade without being freed from the question of the aborted modernity in the Arab world after …
No to War … No to Tyranny… There is Another Human Alternative Recommendations by the Civil Society to the Arab Summit on the Iraqi Question
First: We completely refuse and denounce all plans of launching a war against Iraq, the result of which would lead to a U.S. exercise of dominion over the region that …
Social Committee for the Defense of Democracy
Last November, it was declared that 4 Egyptian opposition parties and 5 human rights organizations witnessed the establishment of the Committee for the Defense of Democracy”; these parties are: Al-Araby …