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Hesham Sallam
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فيما تزداد حدة الخلاف السياسي بين الحكومة والمعارضة في مصر، ومع التدهور الملحوظ في الوضع الإقتصادي، يستمر النقاد في إلقاء الضوء على ما يصفونه بإخفاق الثورة في تحقيق نظام سياسي يستطيع أن يواجه التحديات السياسية والإقتصادية التي تواجه مصر في الفترة الحالية. وعبر عبد المنعم سعيد بفصاحة عن هذا الإجماع في عموده البارز دائماً في "المصري اليوم" في عدة مقالات متتابعة على مدار الشهر الماضي. وتحدث سعيد عن عجز النخبة التي برزت في أعقاب الثورة عن تخطي الإنتهازية التي ...
Keep Reading »Liberal Illusions
![[A passerby in East Alexandria gives money to a beggar under the sign of freedom. Photo by Amro Ali]](/content_images/3/sm_Amro26.png "[A passerby in East Alexandria gives money to a beggar under the sign of freedom. Photo by Amro Ali]")
With the deepening of a political stalemate between the government and the opposition in Egypt and the marked deterioration of economic conditions, critics of the January 25 Revolution continue to highlight what they view as the revolution’s failure to bring about a stable political order that can live up to the many political and economic challenges Egypt confronts today. In his always-illustrious column in Al-Masry Al-Youm, Abdel Moneim Saeed eloquently articulated this ...
Keep Reading »Morsi Past the Point of No Return
![[Portrait of Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including Mohamed Morsi (third from the right), in a broken frame found at the group's headquarters in Cairo after they were stormed by protesters. Photo by Jonathan Rashad]](/content_images/3/sm_MB_portrait.jpg "[Portrait of Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including Mohamed Morsi (third from the right), in a broken frame found at the group's headquarters in Cairo after they were stormed by protesters. Photo by Jonathan Rashad]")
The events of 5 December 2012 mark an important shift in Egyptian politics in light of the violence that pitted Muslim Brotherhood members and partisans of President Mohamed Morsi against protesters opposed to the president’s recent moves to centralize power and allow the Brotherhood to dictate the terms of Egypt’s new political order. Dominant narratives in international media have implicitly or explicitly embraced the view that the clashes are the manifestation of an ...
Keep Reading »Morsy and the "Nationalization" of the Revolution: Some Initial Reflections
![[Anti-Morsy protest in downtown Cairo on 31 August 2012. Photo by Gigi Ibrahim]](/content_images/3/sm_morsy_gigi_web.jpg "[Anti-Morsy protest in downtown Cairo on 31 August 2012. Photo by Gigi Ibrahim]")
President Mohamed Morsy’s recent decisions to prop up presidential powers and shield the constituent assembly from legal challenges, among other controversial steps, have raised the question of where Egyptian politics is heading today. At first glance these developments seem to hold the promise of vengeance for the revolution’s martyrs, whose families were granted an increase in their state pensions. Upon closer examination, however, these decisions are clearly ...
Keep Reading »Egyptian Workers and the Revolution: An Interview with Kamal Abu-Eita
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The following interview was conducted on 14 September 2012 with Kamal Abu-Eita, General Secretary of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (EFITU) and the head of the Real Estate Tax Authority Union, which was founded in 2008 as Egypt’s first independent union. In the first part of the interview, Abu-Eita recounts the lead-up to the January 25 Revolution and how workers’ long-standing struggle for social justice has provided the momentum that paved the way for ...
Keep Reading »مرسي والانقلاب والثورة: قراءة بين الأسطر الحمراء
حاز قرار الرئيس محمد مرسي الأخير والقاضي بإحالة قادة عسكريين كبار إلى التقاعد على إشادة باعتباره خطوة كبيرة على طريق إنهاء عسكرة الدولة المصرية. يمثل هذا القرار بالنسبة لبعض المتفائلين نصراً للثورة على أعدائها داخل المؤسسة العسكرية. لا شك أن هذا الفعل سيكون تاريخياً وبأنه ربما يكون المقدمة لعهد جديد في العلاقات المدنية- العسكرية في مصر. في الوقت نفسه، ورغم الإثارة التي تحملها ترجمة الأحداث الأخيرة كانقلاب مدني على حكام مصر العسكريين، فإن هناك مؤشرات أن ما حدث كان نتاج حركة ...
Keep Reading »Morsy, the Coup and the Revolution: Reading between the Red Lines
President Mohamed Morsy’s recent decision to force Egypt’s most prominent military leaders into retirement has been lauded as a major step toward the demilitarization of the Egyptian state. For some optimists, his decision represents the triumph of the revolution over its adversaries inside the military establishment. There is indeed little doubt that this event will prove monumental and may be the prelude to a new era in civil-military relations in Egypt. At the ...
Keep Reading »Post-Elections Egypt: Revolution or Pact?
![[Protesters in Mohamed Mahmoud Street, 19 November 2011. Image Source: Hossam el-Hamalawy, http://www.flickr.com/photos/elhamalawy/]](/content_images/3/sm_6364372591_c351d94dfb.jpg "[Protesters in Mohamed Mahmoud Street, 19 November 2011. Image Source: Hossam el-Hamalawy, http://www.flickr.com/photos/elhamalawy/]")
For many people, it is compelling, if not intuitive, to think of Egypt’s parliamentary elections as a logical extension of what Egyptians started on 25 January 2011. Elections, the conventional reasoning goes, are a critical step in Egypt’s transition toward a democratic form of governance that is poised to replace the decades-old rule of former President Hosni Mubarak’s now-defunct National Democratic Party. Seen from the inside, however, this reasoning seems fairly ...
Keep Reading »Elections in the Midst of Revolution
![[Tahrir Square on 30 November 2011. Image Source: Hossam el-Hamalawy, http://www.flickr.com/photos/elhamalawy/]](/content_images/3/sm_TahrirSquare.jpg "[Tahrir Square on 30 November 2011. Image Source: Hossam el-Hamalawy, http://www.flickr.com/photos/elhamalawy/]")
The resurgence of mass demonstrations in Egypt, in Tahrir Square and beyond, has raised many question marks in the minds of outside observers about what has often been described as “Egypt’s democratic transition.” Many question how Egypt will be able to advance its so-called journey toward democracy when the persistence of demonstrations and extended sit-ins seems to be “stifling” Egypt’s first post-Mubarak elections scheduled to commence today and last for three months. ...
Keep Reading »An Excerpt from 'Remarking January 25 - A Series of Six'
![[After privatization the Starch and Glucose Manufacturing Company in Turah is at a standstill. Cairo, Egypt, April 24, 2011. Image from Philip Rizk]](/content_images/3/sm_IMG_3121.jpg "[After privatization the Starch and Glucose Manufacturing Company in Turah is at a standstill. Cairo, Egypt, April 24, 2011. Image from Philip Rizk]")
Months have passed since the uprising of 25 January and yet many of the struggles for transformative change that the protests that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak attempted to advance remain at best incomplete and at worst under attack. Immediately after Mubarak’s resignation, it was hard to imagine that seven months later Egypt would remain a country of emergency laws and military trials, and one in which labor strikes and demands for distributive justice are ...
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Hesham Sallam is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine.
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