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Egypt's Presidential Election: Meet the Contenders
![[Abdel-Moneim Abolfotoh, left, and Amr Moussa stand at their podiums on Egypt's first televised presidential debate. Cairo, May 11, 2012. Image by Mahmoud Khaled, Al Masry Al Youm/AP Photo.]](/content_images/3/sm_AP120511013605.jpg "[Abdel-Moneim Abolfotoh, left, and Amr Moussa stand at their podiums on Egypt's first televised presidential debate. Cairo, May 11, 2012. Image by Mahmoud Khaled, Al Masry Al Youm/AP Photo.]")
Egypt’s first presidential election after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak is scheduled to take place on 23 and 24 May 2012, with a possible run-off race on 16 and 17 June 2012. The following guide to the presidential candidates is based on a series of articles published by Egypt Independent. For more information on prominent presidential candidates, click on any of the names below. Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh Khaled Ali Selim al-Awa Hesham al-Bastawisi Abul Ezz al-Hariry Mohamed Morsy Amr Moussa Hamdeen Sabbahi Ahmed Shafiq Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh was the leader of the Cairo University Student Union when he rose ...
Keep Reading »Penetrated Opposition and Failure of Consensus in Syria: Interview with Haytham Manna`(Part 4 of 4)
![[Haytham Manna`. Image by Bassam Haddad]](/content_images/3/sm_HMpart4.jpg "[Haytham Manna`. Image by Bassam Haddad]")
On April 27th, around the Jadaliyya Co-Sponsored Conference at Lund University ("Contesting Narratives, Location Power"), I sat down for an extensive interview with Haytham Manna`, one of the icons of the independent Syrian opposition and a leading founder of the National Coordinating Body for Democratic Change (in Syria). The interview was long and candid, and addressed several topics, including the current impasse in Syria, the stages and transformation of the uprising, the questions of international intervention and of resistance, the Syrian National Council and its relations with other opposition groups and the Arab Gulf States and beyond, and the ...
Keep Reading »Egyptian Parliamentary Protests in Pictures
![[Protesters marching on the Egyptian Parliament to protest the Abbaseya crackdown. Image by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]](/content_images/3/sm_Hamalawy3.jpg "[Protesters marching on the Egyptian Parliament to protest the Abbaseya crackdown. Image by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]")
Thousands marched on the Egyptian parliament Monday, denouncing the army's crackdown on revolutionaries in front of the Ministry of Defense in Abbassiya. A week long sit-in conducted largely by Salafis and leftists was subject to repeated attacks by armed thugs, and was finally suspended by force on Friday, with hundreds detained, tortured, and referred to military prosecution. <
Keep Reading »How the Syrian Uprising Started, the "Rise" of the Syrian National Council, and The Role of The Arab Gulf Countries: Interview with Haytham Manna` (Part 3)
![[Haytham Manna`. Image by Bassam Haddad]](/content_images/3/sm_HMp3.jpg "[Haytham Manna`. Image by Bassam Haddad]")
On April 27th, around the Jadaliyya Co-Sponsored Conference at Lund University ("Contesting Narratives, Location Power"), I sat down for an extensive interview with Haytham Manna`, one of the icons of the independent Syrian opposition and a leading founder of the National Coordinating Body for Democratic Change (in Syria). The interview was long and candid, and addressed several topics, including the current impasse in Syria, the stages and transformation of the uprising, the questions of international intervention and of resistance, the Syrian National Council and its relations with other opposition groups and the Arab Gulf States and beyond, and the ...
Keep Reading »ميشيل كيلو: ثوري عتيد وموقف معقد
![[AFP ميشيل كيلو. تصوير لؤي بشارة . المصدر]](/content_images/3/sm_Kilo_pic_1.jpg "[AFP ميشيل كيلو. تصوير لؤي بشارة . المصدر]")
- درج الحديث في الأوساط السياسية في العالم العربي عن ربيع عربي تقوده الجماهير من دون قيادة سياسية وفي نوع من القطيعة التاريخية مع الأحزاب الطليعية فهل توافق على ذلك؟ هل أن الشعوب الثائرة لم تعد بحاجة لقيادة تعمل في السياسة وكما يقول الشيخ امام في أغنيته "أنا الشعب ماشي و عارف طريقي"؟ ميشيل كيلو: الجماهير العربية لا تقود بل تصنع الثورة. ليس هناك قيادة سياسية، لكن توجد قيادة في الشارع تتألف من الشابات والشباب الثائر، وهؤلاء ينتسبون إلى المجتمع المدني ويحملون أفكاره، فهي التي تقودهم، بالطريقة التي يفهمونها من خلالها. الشعوب العربية بحاجة إلى قيادة، علماً بأن أيام الثورة الأخيرة شهدت في كل مكان من بلدان الربيع العربي بروز قيادات تقليدية أو حديثة . - ...
Keep Reading »Video: ONTV's Reem Maged on Egyptian Media and the Military (Arabic)
![[ONTV host Reem Maged. Image/ahramonline]](/content_images/3/sm_reemmaged.jpg "[ONTV host Reem Maged. Image/ahramonline]")
Meet the Media with ONTV's Reem Maged The Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism hosted its second Meet the Media discussion of the semester on Wednesday, 28 March 2012. The discussion featured Reem Maged, host of ONTV’s Baladna Bel Masry. The discussion was titled “The Media and the Military: A Closer Look at the Relationship.” Moderator Hafez Al Mirazi, director of the Adham Center and host of Dream 2’s Cairo Time, started off by showing the audience clips of some of the most well-known and controversial moments from Maged’s show-- namely the episode she co-hosted with ONTV’s Yosri Fouda in March 2011. The episode featured a tense argument ...
Keep Reading »Intervention, Resistance, Transformation, and Exit in Syria: Interview with Haytham Manna` (Part 2)
![[Haytham Manna`. Image by Bassam Haddad]](/content_images/3/sm_Haytham3.jpg "[Haytham Manna`. Image by Bassam Haddad]")
On April 27th, around the Jadaliyya Co-Sponsored Conference at Lund University ("Contesting Narratives, Location Power"), I sat down for an extensive interview with Haytham Manna`, one of the icons of the independent Syrian opposition and a leading founder of the National Coordinating Body for Democratic Change (in Syria). The interview was long and candid, and addressed several topics, including the current impasse in Syria, the stages and transformation of the uprising, the questions of international intervention and of resistance, the Syrian National Council and its relations with other opposition groups and the Arab Gulf States and beyond, and the ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Roger Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life
Roger Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Roger Owen (RO): I was intrigued by news reports from Algeria in the spring of 2009 stating that President Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika of Algeria was going to amend the constitutional term limits in order to allow him become, in effect, president life, as Ben Ali and other Arab republican presidents had done before him. This led me on to consider the whole phenomenon of personalized presidential power, which did not seem to me to have been properly addressed before—at least not in English. At the same time, I was intrigued by ...
Keep Reading »The Current Impasse in Syria: Jadaliyya Interview with Haytham Manna` (Part 1)
![[haytham Manna`. Image by Bassam Haddad]](/content_images/3/sm_HaythamManna`-imagebybh.jpg "[haytham Manna`. Image by Bassam Haddad]")
On April 27th, around the Jadaliyya Co-Sponsored Conference at Lund University ("Contesting Narratives, Location Power"), I sat down for an extensive interview with Haytham Manna`, one of the icons of the independent Syrian opposition and a leading founder of the National Coordinating Body for Democratic Change (in Syria). The interview was long and candid, and addressed several topics, including the current impasse in Syria, the stages and transformation of the uprising, the questions of international intervention and of resistance, the Syrian National Council and its relations with other opposition groups and the Arab Gulf States and beyond, and the ...
Keep Reading »Press Release: Front Line Defenders Demand "Proof of Life" as Abdulhadi al-Khawaja Enters 79th Day of Hunger Strike
![[Abdulhadi al-Khawaja in hospital, April 6. Image from Frontline Defenders]](/content_images/3/sm_abdulhadi_in_hospital_april_6_2.jpg "[Abdulhadi al-Khawaja in hospital, April 6. Image from Frontline Defenders]")
[The following press release was issued by Front Line Defenders on Thursday, 26 April 2012, as Abdulhadi al-Khawaja’s status and whereabouts remain unverified. Today marks the 79th day of his hunger strike.] PRESS RELEASE—for immediate release On the 78th Day of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja’s hunger strike in Bahrain, Front Line Defenders calls upon the Bahraini Minister of Interior, Lieutenant-General Sheikh Rashid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, to provide a ‘proof of life’ to confirm that Abdulhadi is still alive. Furthermore Front Line Defenders calls on the Minister to allow family visits, restore daily phone calls and update his family on his medical condition. Since ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 15)
Saudi-Bahrain Proposed Unity "Gulf states 'need time to study' union plan," an article on the vague proposal of a union among the Gulf states to replace the Gulf Cooperation Council, by Elizabeth Dickinson in The National. "Gulf unity plan on hold amid Iranian warning," a news report on the proposal of unity among the Gulf states, by Ian Black in The Guardian. "Saudi-Bahrain unity deal draws fierce criticism," an article on the protests against the proposed unity ...
Keep Reading »Iranian Cyber-Struggles
From the Green Movement in Iran in 2009 through the Arab revolts that began in 2011, social media have held center stage in coverage of popular protest in the Middle East. Though the first flush of overwrought enthusiasm is long past, there is consensus that Facebook, Twitter and other Web 2.0 applications, particularly on handheld devices, have been an effective organizing tool against the slower-moving security apparatuses of authoritarian states. The new technology has also helped social movements to ...
Keep Reading »The End(s) of Stability
In September 2010, Saudi Arabia marked the anniversary of the 1962 Republican Revolution in Yemen by funding lavish parties in the country’s capital. Large numbers of Yemenis thronged the Saudi Arabian embassy in Sana’a to collect the cash dispensed to commemorate this momentous occasion. Such a degree of profligateness in Saudi foreign policy is hardly new, but the pretence of solidarity demonstrated in their celebration of the Republican Revolution is particularly perplexing—even by Saudi standards of ...
Keep Reading »ثوار السعودية: مقابلة مع منظمي صفحة ثوار المنطقة الشرقية
ما الذي يحدث في المنطقة الشرقية في الممكلة العربية السعودية؟ لقد نجحت الأمبراطورية الإعلامية التي تمتكلها المملكة، بالتعاون مع جهازها الأمني، في منع وصول أخبار التطورات في القطيف إلى العالم إلى حد بعيد. كما لجأ النظام السعودي إلى حملة مضادة للثورة متعددة الاتجاهات لقمع الانتفاضة في العام الماضي. وعلى الرغم من محاولات شراء شخصيات سياسية ودينية، وممارسة ضغوط اقتصادية على المدنيين، وفرض الحصار على القطيف وجوارها، واستعمال الذخيرة الحية لتفريق المتظاهرين، بقي الثوار في القطيف صامدين في نضالهم ضد الطغيان ...
Keep Reading »الرجل و المرأه صنوان لهما كرامة واحده
تعاني المرأة من مشاكل عديدة في كل المجتمعات، و تختلف حدة و نوعية هذه المشاكل من مجتمع إلى آخر. و المرأة العربية ليست إستثناء من هذا التعميم. و لكن المؤكد أن مشاكل المرأة العربية ليس سببها كراهية الرجل لها لأن هذه الكراهية المزعومة لا وجود لها. و الزعم بأن الرجل العربي يكره المرأة ـ كما جاء في مقال منى الطحاوي في مجلة فورين بولسي Foreign Policy
Keep Reading »They Burned My Heart: War Crimes in Idlib during Peace Plan Negotiations
[The following report is the latest from the Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Syria.] This report documents dozens of extrajudicial executions, killings of civilians, and destruction of civilian property that qualify as war crimes, as well as arbitrary detention and torture. The report is based on a field investigation conducted by Human Rights Watch in the towns of Taftanaz, Saraqeb, Sarmeen, Kelly, and Hazano in Idlib governorate in late April. Human Rights Watch documented large-scale military ...
Keep Reading »Ezzedine Errousi, a Moroccan Prisoner of Conscience, Released: 134 Days on Hunger Strike
On 1 December 2011, Ezzedine Errousi, a Moroccan student from the city of Taza, was taking part in a student union protest on the Taza University campus. The students staged a peaceful protest against the deplorable state of the university. The university sent the local authorities to disperse the protest. Authorities then came on campus, arrested Errousi, stripped, and dragged him through the local souk to prison. He was charged with assaulting a police officer and sentenced to five months in prison, in ...
Keep Reading »Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (May 1)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ap@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every week.] “FISCALLY SPEAKING: Saudis Wouldn't Gain Much From A Union With Bahrain,” a Kipp report on the disadvantages to Saudi Arabia of union, with other Gulf Arab ...
Keep Reading »Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja: "Free Bird"
[The following is an animation narrated by Zainab Al-Khawaja after a phone call with her dad and before she was arrested on 21 April 2012 for protesting the Formula One Grand Prix in Bahrain. Abdulhadi al-Khawaja enters his 80th day on hunger strike today, as his status and whereabouts remain unknown. The Bahraini regime continues to deny his family and lawyer their visitation rights.]
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 ...
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