The failure of the Middle East democratisation project is not something to celebrate, even if outside forces championed it; it prefaces the disintegration of the Arab world, writes Bahey Eldin Hassan[1] …
Egyptian Civil Society and the Proposed Constitutional Amendments
Bahey Eldin Hassan On December 26, 2006 President Hosni Mubarak formally requested that the People’s Assembly amend some 34 articles of the constitution, a move heralded by the government-controlled press …
The acceptable face of opposition
The Muslim Brotherhood and National Democratic Party tread the same path, writes Baheyeddin Hassan A widespread debate ensued in Egypt following comments by the minister of culture, Farouk Hosni, criticising the hijab, …
Three years later
The government’s flagship human rights organisation has done nothing to limit human rights violations, writes Bahey Eldin Hassan* On 18 January 2007, the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) will end …
Arab Governments Strike Back
Bahey Hassan If some of the Group of Eight (G-8) countries had not found some resolve at the final moments of the concluding session of the Forum for the Future …
CIHRS Calls for Downfalling Arab Immunity for American war criminals instead of oral maneuvering denunciation.
Bahey El Din Hassan, director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), sent a letter yesterday to Mr. Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab League, asking for …