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Nathan J. Brown
Egypt's Judges in a Revolutionary Age
![[Building of the Egyptian High Court of Justice. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_highcourtegypt.jpg "[Building of the Egyptian High Court of Justice. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
Egypt’s tumultuous uprising of 2011 was about many things, but among the most central was a demand by legions of political activists and large crowds of mobilized citizens that public authority in the country be reconstructed to operate in a clearly accountable manner, fully governed by the rule of law. Egyptian judges might therefore be expected to look upon the post-uprising environment as a time when they can finally realize a vision that they have been articulating for a ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Post-Mubarak Egypt: Authoritarianism without Autocrats? (Part V: Brown)
[This is the fifth of seven posts associated with a Jadaliyya electronic roundtable on the future of Egypt. Click here to access the full roundtable. Participants include: Issandr Al-Amrani, Zeinab Abul-Magd, Nathan J. Brown, Jason Brownlee, Daniel Brumberg, Mohamed El-Menshawy, and Samer Shehata. A description of the roundtable can be found here. For the previous post click here.] Don’t Worry, Be Happy Jason Brownlee is right. Egypt is still led by a military ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Nathan J. Brown, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, is a distinguished scholar and author of four well-received books on Arab politics. Brown brings his special expertise on Islamist movements, Palestinian politics, and Arab law and constitutionalism to the Endowment. Brown’s most recent book, Resuming Arab Palestine, presents research on Palestinian society and governance after the establishment of the Palestinian Authority. His current work focuses on Islamist movements and their role in politics in the Arab world.
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