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أوهام ليبرالية
![[الاسكندرية تصوير عمر علي]](/content_images/3/sm_hesham.jpg "[الاسكندرية تصوير عمر علي]")
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 اتسم بها رجال الدولة في عهد مبارك، وإخفاقهم في تكوين رؤية ذات معنى تمكن البلاد من سد فجوة التقدم القائمة بينها وبين باقي بلدان العالم. وفي مقاله الأخير، "باب الخروج"، يسعى سعيد إلى إيجاد سبيل ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (May 20)
![[Protests in Tahrir Square. Image originally posted to Flickr by Mohamed Azazy.]](/content_images/3/sm_8593619565_14e5d37ed3.jpg "[Protests in Tahrir Square. Image originally posted to Flickr by Mohamed Azazy.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sunday night of every week.] “Video allegedly shows kidnapped Sinai soldiers” The crisis with the kidnapped soldiers in Sanai enters a fourth day, as kidnappers release a video identifying the soldiers and announcing their demands. “More political parties join anti-Morsi petition campaign” Al-Wafd and Al-Dostour Parties join the “Rebel” campaign collecting signatures against ...
Keep Reading »The Brothers, the Revolution, and the Right to Protest
A new political order always arrives with a package of legislation establishing its political and socioeconomic orientations as law. In its broad sense, a revolution effects a “fundamental change” in the political and economic order, with the support of the majority of the people.[1] Egypt experienced this shortly after the 1952 Free Officers’ coup d’état, as it developed into the July Revolution.[2] Egypt’s second experience in this regard came with President Anwar Al-Sadat’s accession to power, and continued under Hosni Mubarak, who preserved the political and socioeconomic orientations of his predecessor. The new regulations brought in by Sadat and Mubarak included ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (April 2013)
![[Egyptian workers march to Shura Council on May Day 2013. Image originally posted to Flickr by Gigi Ibrahim.]](/content_images/3/sm_8720422896_69fcd15914.jpg "[Egyptian workers march to Shura Council on May Day 2013. Image originally posted to Flickr by Gigi Ibrahim.]")
This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Egypt. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Egypt-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis and diversity that Jadaliyya strives for, but the views are solely the ones of their authors. If you are interested in contributing to Jadaliyya, send us your post with your bio and a release form to post@jadaliyya.com [click “Submissions” on the main page for more information]. First as Shadow, Then as Farce: An Evening with Medieval Puppeteer Ibn Daniyal at CUNY in New ...
Keep Reading »Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History
Samera Esmeir, Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. [This review was originally published in the most recent issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, or to subscribe to ASJ, click here.] Today human rights provides a dominant framework for thinking about humanity—one in which humanity often appears as both a universal and an ahistorical category. In this view, the history of humanity is one of the discovery of otherwise hidden or ignored truths about its nature. One can easily understand the apparent political and moral utility in this position, which seeks to put the claims of fundamental equality ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (May 6)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sunday night of every week.] “Hundreds protest 'Brotherhoodisation' of Alexandria after governor complaint” Alexandrians stage anti-Brotherhood protests after governor accuses his deputy of being loyal to the group. “Top preacher to be investigated for 'terrorising' Egypt state security” Hazem Abou Ismail is to be investigated after he called for a protest in front of the ...
Keep Reading »Jonathan Rashad on Freelance Photojournalism in Egypt
![[Image of Jonathan Rashad.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-05-03at9.11.50AM.png "[Image of Jonathan Rashad.]")
[This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight distinct voices primarily in and from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.] Jadaliyya (J): Are you a freelancer or do you work with an agency? Why did you choose this path? Jonathan Rashad (JR): I have always been a freelancer. I chose this path as it gives me much more time to focus on issues I am interested in covering, not routine news and stories I would be commissioned to cover by news outlets or magazines. I get to guide my own editorial interests. The main benefits are the freedom and time, which allows me to work on longer ...
Keep Reading »قراءة في أحوال الصورة بعد ثورة يناير
فيسبوك وأفلام ومقاطع فيديو: قراءة في أحوال الصورة بعد ثورة يناير لهيلاري كلينتون أن تصف ثورة مصر بأنها "انتفاضة" أو مجرد انتقال من نظام سياسي إلى آخر أكثر ديموقراطية، ولجون كيري أن يسعى للقضاء عليها من خلال دعم فاشية دينية فاسدة، يسهل لأمريكا التحكم فيها. وللاسلاميين أن يعتبروها هدية سقطت عليهم من السماء. ليعتقد من يشاء ما يشاء حول ما حدث في 25 يناير وما بعده، ولنا أن نتصورها كما نشاء. هي أكبر ثورة في تاريخ مصر. ليس لأنها أطاحت بنظام اعتقل المصريين في قفص من الجهل والفقر واليأس لثلاثة عقود، ولا لأن الملايين شاركوا فيها على طول البلاد وعرضها. وليس بالطبع لأنها أتت بدستور أسوأ من القديم وانتخابات أكثر فساداً وتزويراً مما كان يحدث. عندما أقول ...
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 consensus over successive pieces in the course of the past month. He reflects on the inability of the “new” political elite that emerged in the wake of the revolution to move beyond the opportunism ...
Keep Reading »Reflections of the 21st Annual Cairo Papers Symposium, “The Political Economy of the New Egyptian Republic”
![[Second panel of symposium. From left to right: Zeinab Abulmagd, Reem Saad (chair), Hans Christian Nielsen, and Mona Abaza. Image from Cairo Papers]](/content_images/3/sm_cairopapersreport.jpg "[Second panel of symposium. From left to right: Zeinab Abulmagd, Reem Saad (chair), Hans Christian Nielsen, and Mona Abaza. Image from Cairo Papers]")
Cairo has long been a tremendously self-aware city—engaging both Egyptian and international scholars in dialogues about events even as they are unfolding. This year’s twenty-first Annual Cairo Papers Symposium is an example of such self-conscious scholarship and dialogue. Taking place on 6 April 2013, as protests around the city commemorated the fifth anniversary of the April 6th workers’ movement, this symposium on the Egyptian political economy was certainly timely and relevant. The Cairo Papers in Social Science (CPSS) hosted the Cairo Papers Annual Symposium. The CPSS was established in 1977 by the social science departments of the American University in Cairo (AUC) ...
Keep Reading »Contested Citizenship in Egypt
Clashes over the Khusus killings in Egypt are the most recent of a long list of tragic sectarian episodes since 2011. Paul Sedra is right that “the impulse to lay the blame for this sectarianism at the feet of the Muslim Brotherhood is strong and…not without justification.” It is small wonder that the Brotherhood’s hyper-politicization of religion and religious difference at this juncture in Egyptian history would enable the radical escalation of conflict between individuals during what might under other circumstances be rudimentary or even banal interactions. In Sedra’s estimation, the tendency to look upon Coptic Christians in Egypt as members of a unitary and ...
Keep Reading »من يكتب أدب الثورة؟
![[غرافيني في القاهرة. مصدرالصورة السفير العربي]](/content_images/3/sm_cairografiti.jpg "[غرافيني في القاهرة. مصدرالصورة السفير العربي]")
لكل ثورة أدباؤها ولكل حدث بديع في تاريخ الإنسانية من يشتغلون على تدوينه، بشتى الوسائل المتاحة، حتى يخلد ويبقى إرثاً لا تطاله أيادي التقادم. ولأن رسالة الأدب، في المحصلة، تتجاوز الحيز الجغرافي الذي يُولَدُ فيه، ليعانق الانشغالات الإنسانية بمعزل عن المكان الذي احتضنه واللغة التي أُنتج بها والثقافة التي آوته بما يشكله من تعبير عن المشترك الإنساني في قوالب إبداعية تمنحه الخلود. فالأدب ينقل التجربة الإنسانية من مستوى الحدث العادي إلى المتخيل، والمسافة الفاصلة بين الواقع والخيال هي بالضبط التي تمنح لهذه التجربة مغزاها وتجردها من الزمان والمكان لتسمها بالخلود وتصبغ عليها طابع الأنسنة. كل الأحداث التي شكلت منعطفاً مهماً في تاريخ الدول والشعوب، إذا لم نشأ قول الإنسانية، استلهمت ...
Keep Reading »Women's Rights in the Egyptian Constitution: (Neo)Liberalism's Family Values
“Woman and the constitution: Fear of woman’s marginalization rules over all” blared an April 2012 headline in al-Ahram, joining other protests over the role of women in Egypt’s new constitution. Organizations (“EgyptSoft”) sprang up, with articles and posts about how “the Egyptian woman screams in the face of the constitution of discrimination.” Fear reigned about how the post-revolutionary Islamist government would approach women’s rights, with many women’s organizations striking a defensive posture. ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (May 13)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sunday night of every week.] “Arrests made in Egypt over embassy plot” The Minister of Interior announces the arrest of three individuals connected to Al-Qaeda who were preparing a bomb plot. “Constitutional ...
Keep Reading »الثــأر والثــورة .. لماذا يثور الشمال ولا يفعلها الجنوب؟
"بعد بني سويف مفيش رجالة" عبارة كتبت على القطار المتوجه من القاهرة إلى الصعيد في الأيام الأولى من ثورة 25 يناير للمزايدة على رجولة أبناء صعيد مصر (الوجه القبلي) الذين لا يزالون يُتهمون بأنهم لم يشاركوا في الثورة كما فعل أهل الوجه البحري. وهو أمر متكرر على لسان بعض الثوار والنشطاء، وبالأخص الذين يداومون على تفسير التوجهات التصويتية لصعيد مصر بقلة مستوى التعليم، وقوة الروابط التقليدية كالعائلات والقبائل، فضلاً عن التعميمات المطلقة بخصوص الاستغلال السياسي للعمل الخيري من قبل الإسلاميين، وذلك لحاجة ...
Keep Reading »Oxford Event -- Egypt's 2011 Revolution and the Rule of the Muslim Brotherhood (15 May)
Egypt's 2011 Revolution and the Rule of the Muslim Brotherhood 15 May 2013, 5:00 - 7:30 p.m. Oxford University A two-panel conference offering a rare opportunity to debate with insiders and experts the fortunes of Egypt's 2011 revolution since the Muslim Brotherhood came to power, as well as the implications for the wider region. With thanks to the Department of Politics and International Relations, Middle East Centre, Oriental Institute, and St Antony's College for their generous ...
Keep Reading »Cairo Event: Photography Exhibit "Covering One's Back" (7 - 23 May, 2013)
Covering One's Back Cairo, Gezira Art Center, Zamalek 7 May – 23 May, 2013 In today’s world, what images can we bear to look at? This was the question posed by Maha Maamoun and Ala Younis when curating the photography exhibition “Covering One’s Back.” The exhibition brings together a wide range of works that engage with photography and the photographic process by artists from the Arab World and Switzerland. The artists participating are Atfal Ahdath, Yasser Alwan, Goerge Awde, Goran Galić & ...
Keep Reading »Egyptian Women: Between Revolution, Counter-Revolution, Orientalism, and "Authenticity"
The Egyptian revolution appears to present a “gender paradox.” On the one hand, women have been marginalized in many formal political institutions since the downfall of Hosni Mubarak. On the other hand, representations and images of women and women’s bodies have been ubiquitous. Representations of women through media and art, as well as the regulation of women’s sexuality through state laws and constitutions are an essential part of defining national identity and national difference, marking ...
Keep Reading »First as Shadow, Then as Farce: An Evening with Medieval Puppeteer Ibn Daniyal at CUNY in New York
The thirteenth-century occulist Muhammad Ibn Daniyal, said to have occasionally blinded his patients, is remembered both for his tragic optometry and for his comedic shadow puppet plays. A refugee from Mosul, Ibn Daniyal once entertained Sultans and urchins alike in the streets and salons of medieval Cairo. Perhaps he was better at summoning the shadows than the light. His Tayf al-Khayāl trilogy (“The Shadow Spirit”) is known as the only work of Arabic drama to have survived from the pre-modern period in ...
Keep Reading »مَن يُحاسِب؟ ومَن يُحاسِب مَن؟
لأول مرة في تاريخ العالم العربي الحديث نجحت انتفاضات شعبية سلمية في إطلاق مسارات أفضت إلى تنحي أربعة رؤساء دولة عن الحكم. ولأول مرة في التاريخ ذاته، أحيل هؤلاء الرؤساء إلى المحاكمة، وجاهياً أو غيابياً، بتهم تتعلق بالأمر بالقتل والتعذيب والفساد ونهب الأموال العامة. والآن تلوح مؤشرات إلى أن هذه المكاسب الأولية لعملية التحويل الديموقراطي في تلك البلدان مهددة بالتبديد.اغتيل معمر القذافي، بالطريقة البشعة الهمجية التي اغتيل بها، دون محاكمة أو قطعاً للطريق على محاكمة. وفرّ زين العابدين بن علي إلى ...
Keep Reading »أسئلة العدالة الانتقالية في مصر ورومانسيتها: الجزء الثاني
أسئلة العدالة الانتقالية في مصر ورومانسيتها (2- 2) الوقت لمُقاربة مختلفة لدمج الفلول وتجاوز الماضي الحديث الذي قدمته في الجزء الأول من هذا المقال عن الموجات المتقلبة من التضارب والتقارب بين أجندات الإخوان الخاصة، ومصالح العسكر، كشركاء في الحكم، ومؤسسي المسار السياسي الذي تتخبط في غياهبه مصر الآن، كان في مجمله مكرراً، لكن ما أظن أن الناس تعزف عن مناقشته هي مسألة الفلول ومقاربة شجاعة لنزع فتيلها، إذ حان الوقت في رأيي لإعادة النظر جذرياً في مسألة الفلول وفي مصالحة وطنية أشمل وأوسع تبنى على ...
Keep Reading »أسئلة العدالة الانتقالية في مصر ورومانسيتها: الجزء الأول
أسئلة العدالة الانتقالية في مصر ورومانسيتها (الجزء الأول): بين أجندة الإخوان ويمين السيسي الكاذب.. أقسمَ السيسي - وزير الدفاع وشريك الحُكم - كذباً أن الجيش لم يقتل ولم يأمر بقتل، ولم يغدر ولم يأمر بغدر... وربما أصدقه في الثانية، فكثير من الحكام الذين قتلوا وعذبوا وسرقوا – كمبارك نفسه وشليلته- لم يعتبروا أنفسهم آنذاك غادرين أو خائنين وإنما استباحوا السهل الحرام كأولاد باشاوات وأصهار سلالة الإقطاعيين "الكاكي"، على اعتبار أن تلك طريقة معيشة وأسلوب حياة شعوب المشرق. لكنّ السيسي في ...
Keep Reading »Joint Statement Demanding Public Release of Egyptian Budget
[The following statement was issued by a group of political parties and NGOs, including the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, on 21 April 2013.] Continuing with the blackout approach by the regime, the Minister of Finance presents the 2013-2014 draft budget to the Shura Council without making it available to citizens. Early this April and in complete secrecy, the Minister of Finance presented the 2013-2014 budget proposal to the Shura Council, without making it available publicly for ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (April 23)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sunday night of every week.] President discusses controversial law with Supreme Judicial Council Presidency in contact with Supreme Judicial Council and the Judges Club to end the controversy over the Judicial ...
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