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Internet Censorship, Human Rights, and Democracy in Tunisia: Julian Assange Interviews Moncef Marzouki
In the third episode of The World Tomorrow, broadcasted on Russia Today, Julian Assange interviews Tunisian president, Moncef Marzouki. Marzouki speaks about his experience in prison and exile under the deposed Ben Ali regime. Assange asks Marzouki about matters pertaining to his role in post-Ben Ali Tunisia, the steps being taken towards a democratic transition, internet censorship, human rights, and his position on the situation in Syria.
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وسط الاحتجاز السياسي العام، الذي يكتنف المسألة الوطنية السورية، وفي ظل تصريحات تصدر عن جهات مؤثرة في العمل السياسي المعارض، ترى أن التدخل الخارجي صار «الحل الوحيد» في سوريا، مع ما يعنيه ذلك من اعتراف صريح بخروج القضية من أيدي من ضحوا طيلة أحد عشر شهرا في سبيل انتصارها، التقى في القاهرة مهتمون بالشأن السوري العام يمثلون اتجاهاته المتنوعة، ليناقشوا ويتدارسوا خلال أيام ثلاثة أوضاع وطنهم من مختلف جوانبها، ويحددوا مواقفهم منها، والمفاهيم التي يجب تناولها من خلالها، وما آل إليه الصراع بين الشعب والسلطة من نتائج، وما سيقوم في وطنهم من أوضاع. وكان الداعون، وجلهم من الذين نشطوا بين عامي 2000 و2007 في «لجان إحياء المجتمع المدني»، التي لعبت دورا مميزا في تلمس شروط ومتطلبات ...
Keep Reading »Ziad Al-Eleimi
Ziad Al-Eleimi Ziad Al-Eleimi is a founding member of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party. He is also a lawyer, human rights activist, founding, and leading member of the Revolution’s Youth Coalition (RYC). Before the Revolution Al-Eleimi’s involvement in politics began early in his life, being the son of Ekram Yousef, a prominent student activist in the politically turbulent 1970s. Thus, by his teenage years, Al-Eleimi was already involved in social and political struggle. During his law school years, Al-Eleimi was closely engaged in student activism and joined the Egyptian Popular Committee in Solidarity with the Palestinian Intifada, an Egyptian movement formed ...
Keep Reading »Osama Al-Ghazali Harb
Osama Al-Ghazali Harb A veteran politician, Osama Al-Ghazali Harb, born in 1947, is one of the founders of Egypt’s liberal-leaning Democratic Front Party. After graduating from Cairo University’s faculty of economics and political science in 1969, he began his journalistic career working for the state-owned Al-Gomhorriya newspaper and Al-Kateb magazine. In 1977, he moved to the Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies to work as a researcher and in 1990 replaced Boutros-Boutros Ghali as editor-in-chief of International Politics magazine (Al-Siyasa Al-Dawliyya), one of the center’s most prestigious publications. His work with the center officially ended in 2010 ...
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Yasser Borhami Yasser Hussein Borhami is a prominent Salafist preacher and deputy leader of Al-Daawa Movement (Al-Da‘waa Al-Salafiyyai), a Salafist movement that spawned Al-Nour Party in 2011. Borhami was born in 1958 in Kafr Al-Dawar in the northern governorate of Beheira, and his father, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), was imprisoned under Nasser in 1965. Borhami graduated from Alexandria University with a degree in medicine in 1982 and earned a master’s degree in pediatrics in 1992. He went on to obtain a degree in shari’a from Al-Azhar University in 1999. Borhami authored several books on religion such as, No God but Allah is the Saving Word. As a ...
Keep Reading »Al-Sayed Al-Badawi
Al-Sayed Al-Badawi Al-Sayed Al-Badawi Shehata (known as Al-Sayed Al-Badawi) is the current leader of Al-Wafd party. Al-Badawi, a business tycoon, has been on Al-Wafd's Higher Committee since 1989. He was Al-Wafd’s Secretary General before being elected to the party’s leadership in 2010. Graduating from the University of Alexandria’s faculty of pharmacy in 1973, Al-Badawi entered the pharmaceuticals industry, where he was able to make a substantial fortune. He founded and is the current chairman and CEO of Sigma Pharmaceutical Industries. In this capacity, Al-Badawi has invested heavily in the Egyptian media. He owns Al-Hayat satellite TV channel, and in 2010 he ...
Keep Reading »Mohamed Al-Beltagy
Mohamed Al-Beltagy Born in 1963, Mohamed Ibrahim Al-Beltagy is a leading member of Egypt’s influential Muslim Brotherhood (MB) movement and secretary general of the Freedom and Justice Party, the MB’s political arm. A medical doctor by profession, Al-Beltagy served as a Brotherhood Member of Parliament from 2005 to 2010.During his tenure as an MP, he forcefully challenged the government’s performance on numerous issues, including a controversial ferryboat accident, the bird and swine flu, real estate taxes, and skyrocketing inflation. Before the Revolution As a teenager, Al-Beltagy explored Egypt’s multifarious political trends, attending events held by ...
Keep Reading »Amin Iskandar
Amin Iskandar Amin Iskandar is a founding member of the recently licensed Al-Karama ("Dignity") Party and is known for his nationalist and Nasserist tendencies. Born in 1952, Iskandar is a writer and researcher and published a number of writings on Egyptian and Arab politics. Before the Revolution Iskandar was formerly a member of the Nasserist Party, but his membership was frozen in 1998 after he, along with other members of his generation, fell out with the party’s leaders. Although the party leadership had been willing to allow Iskandar and his fellows back into the party's ranks, they declined and instead established their own political party, ...
Keep Reading »Hossam Badrawi
Hossam Badrawi Hossam Badrawi is a former member of the defunct National Democratic Party (NDP) and served as the former ruling party’s secretary-general during President Hosni Mubarak’s last days in office. He is also founder of the Union Party, widely seen as one of several NDP offshoots that emerged following the dissolution of the party in April 2011. Badrawi was born in Cairo in 1953 to a well-established family traditionally affiliated with Egypt’s liberal Al-Wafd Party. He graduated from Cairo University’s faculty of medicine in 1974. In 1983, he earned his PhD in gynecology from Wayne State University in the United States. He currently owns the well-known ...
Keep Reading »El Haqed: Examining Morocco's Judicial Reform in 2012
On 9 September 2011, Mouad Belghouat, a 24 year old Moroccan rap musician, was passing out fliers to advertize for a demonstration in his impoverished neighborhood outside the cosmopolitan city of Casablanca. On the evening he and his friends were handing out fliers for the upcoming march, Belghouat was approached by another young man, Mohamed Dali, later reported to be a member of the “Alliance of Young Royalists,” who verbally targeted Belghouat, calling him a traitor. Belghouat himself is ...
Keep Reading »مَن يدبّج الرسائل ويوصلها إلى أصحابها بعد "استقالة" ابرهيم أصلان؟
كنا نجلس في مقهى "أم كلثوم" في وسط القاهرة، في ليلة باردة، أنا ومجموعة من الأصدقاء، أذكر منهم الآن كلاًّ من ياسر عبد اللطيف، وائل عبد الفتاح، ياسر إبرهيم، ونادين شمس. ثم جاء طيف إبرهيم أصلان، محمولا على سيرته، فارتفعت هالة قداسة افتراضية أعلى رؤوس الجميع، وبدأوا نغمة واحدة من الإعزاز والتقدير لأصلان وكتاباته. الشعار المطلق المرفوع حول إبرهيم أصلان، أصابني بنفور تحفّزه فوبيا مستترة تراودني كلما شعرت بإجماع مطلق حول مبدأ أو فكرة أو شخص. السرّ قلت لهم إنني لا أفهم سراً لأسطورة ...
Keep Reading »Amr Hamzaway
Amr Hamzawy Born in 1968, Amr Hamzawy is an Egyptian political scientist and activist. He is the founder of the liberal Egypt Freedom Party, established in the aftermath of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution. Until February 2011, Hamzawy was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, serving as research director at the organization’s Beirut office. His research focuses on issues of political reform and political Islamist movements in the Middle East. Hamzawy’s profile in the Arab ...
Keep Reading »Mustafa Al-Naggar
Mustafa Al-Naggar Mustafa Al-Naggar is former general coordinator of the campaign supporting presidential hopeful Mohamed ElBaradei. After the January 25 Revolution, he helped form Al-Adl Party. Al-Naggar also runs the popular blog, “I am with them,” and, since 2007, has been actively blogging about human rights and civil liberties in Egypt. Mustafa Al-Naggar is former general coordinator of the campaign supporting presidential hopeful Mohamed ElBaradei. After the January 25 Revolution, he ...
Keep Reading »Naguib Sawiris
Naguib Sawiris The eldest of three prominent Coptic Christian brothers at fifty-six years of age, Naguib Sawiris first began investing in Egypt’s nascent telecom industry in the early 1990s. This strategy soon made him the first billionaire in his family. The telecom magnate joined family-owned Orascom in 1979. Sawiris has continuously contributed to the growth of the firm, which today represents one of Egypt’s largest and most diversified conglomerates. Orascom Telecom has since expanded its ...
Keep Reading »Mamdouh Hamza
Mamdouh Hamza Prominent engineer and industrialist Mamdouh Hamza played a key role during Egypt’s January 25 Revolution. Hamza is likely to continue influencing the political scene for the foreseeable future due to his close ties with various youth groups. Born in Damietta, Egypt, in 1947, Hamza graduated from Cairo University's Faculty of Engineering and went on to obtain a doctorate in mechanics and civil engineering from London's Imperial College. In 1979, he founded Hamza Associates, a major ...
Keep Reading »Abul Ela Madi
Abul Ela Madi Born in 1958 in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya, Abul Ela Madi is Al-Wasat Party’s leader and one of its most prominent cofounders. He graduated in 1984 from Minya University with a degree in engineering and earned a law degree in 2008. After defecting from Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (MB) movement in 1996, he went on to form Al-Wasat Party, commonly known as an Islamist party with a “moderate” interpretation of Islamic divine texts. After several unsuccessful attempts to obtain ...
Keep Reading »Mohamed Al-Qasas
Mohamed Al-Qasas A former member of the influential Muslim Brotherhood (MB), Mohamed Al-Qasas is one of the main founders of the Egyptian Current Party (Al-Tayyar Al-Masry). He is widely known for his prominent role within the MB’s youth wing, of which he was a leading member. After the revolution, Al-Qasas was one of the MB’s first activists to defy its leadership’s decision to forbid members from joining any political party other than the recently licensed Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). Born in ...
Keep Reading »Mohamed Abul-Ghar
Mohamed Abul-Ghar Mohamed Abul-Ghar is the head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, which he co-founded with other activists and public figures after the January 25 Revolution. In 1962, Abul-Ghar graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University and obtained his PhD in 1969, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. Besides his teaching post at Cairo University, Abul-Ghar pursued an active career in scientific research. He established Egypt’s first specialized medical center for assisted ...
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