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Egypt Media Roundup (June 17)
[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.] “Morsi appoints 17 new governors” Seven of the newly appointed governors belong to the Muslim Brotherhood. “Egypt tourism insiders voice misgivings over Luxor’s new Islamist governor” Luxor residents gather in front of the governor’s office to protest appointment of a former member of al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, which was ...
Keep Reading »هل يمكن تطوير الجدل حول المثلية الجنسية؟
كلما أثيرت قضية المثلية الجنسية في مصر تهيج العواصف قليلاً ثم تهدأ بلا إحراز أي تقدم. قد يكون السبب في ذلك طغيان القضايا السياسية والحقوقية الكبرى، والانتهاكات الموسعة بدنياً واقتصادياً واجتماعياً، فضلاً عن الصراع حول انتزاع الحق في المجال العام إجمالاً دون خوض في فرعيات أو تفاصيل. ولكن يبقى السؤال: لماذا لا يحدث تقدم نسبي كلما تجدد الجدل عن المرة السابقة؟ وهنا أرى الإشكالية في غياب الجدل أساساً، فما يسود بخصوص المثلية الجنسية، كما غيرها، ما هو إلا حوار طرشان يصمم كل منهم أن يتحدث بمنطقه الأحادي، تاركين الأغلبية من الناس في التباس بين حقائق القضية وضلالاتها. الموقف المجتمعي العام معروف أنه محافظ لدرجة الجمود ورافض للاعتراف بوجود تنوع في الميول الجنسية، وهو أمر مفهوم، ...
Keep Reading »Tahrir to Taksim: We Demand the Fall of the System (Video)
The following video expresses the Mosireen media collective’s stance of solidarity with the on-going demonstrations around Istanbul’s Taksim Square, and in several other Turkish cities. It begins with images of trees being uprooted in Istanbul’s Gezi Park, to make way for the government’s planned conversion of the area into a commercial space–the original trigger of the peaceful protests. It then shows the many parallels between the challenges that Egyptian and Turkish protesters have faced due to police violence, as well as between the methods of resistance that they have improvised in their respective public squares. This video comes days after solidarity ...
Keep Reading »The Body as a Site of Contest: Sherene Seikaly on the Gendered Exercise of Power and Resistance
How is the body produced as a site of repression and resistence? Sherene Seikaly, Co-Editor at Jadaliyya, as well as Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Studies Center at the American University of Cairo, tackles this question by exploring the ways in which the Egyptian state's production of the body as a terrorized and passive political subject inspired people to take their lives into their own hands and revolt. The state's theatrics of domination reveal a deep and sinister hatred of the Egyptian people as a collective body and as individual bodies. Both men and women are subject to various types of brutality, the “mundane,” scripted as ...
Keep Reading »Egypt's Khaled Said: Three Years on, Still No Justice
In a small bedroom in Alexandria adjacent to the sea, the belongings of a young man: new trainers, a computer console and homemade speakers are quietly gathering dust. Three years of dust, to be precise. On 6 June 2010, their owner a twenty-eight-year-old called Khaled Said left his desk to walk to an Internet café across the street and never came back. He was beaten to death by police officers in broad daylight. A photograph of his face on the autopsy table, mutilated beyond recognition, was the breaking point for the nation. Khaled became a symbol: on 25 January 2011, his story brought millions of Egyptians to the streets. Exactly three years on, following a ...
Keep Reading »سيناء في ذكرى تحريرها: سيادة منقوصة وأجواء منتهكة وجنود مختطفون
وافق الخامس والعشرون من أبريل المنصرم الذكرى الحادية والثلاثين للأعياد الوطنية المصرية المرتبطة بتحرير سيناء وفقاً لمعاهدة السلام التي أبرمها الرئيس الراحل محمد أنور السادات عام 1979 مع الطرف الإسرائيلي بمباركة أمريكية. وبعد أن دفع السادات عمره ثمناً للمعاهدة التي وقعها منفرداً وكانت سبباً في خروج مصر من جامعة الدول العربية واستقالة وزير الخارجية إسماعيل فهمي وعدد من الدبلوماسيين المصريين، منهم محمد البرادعي المدير السابق للوكالة الدولية للطاقة الذرية، فإن الشواهد الميدانية تشكك في حقيقة التحرير المزعوم. ورغم عدم توفر نسخة موثقة من المعاهدة، والتي تختلف عن اتفاقية كامب ديفيد الموقعة عام 1977، وكذلك تعذر الحصول على ملاحقها الأمنية فإن الباحث المصري محمد سيف الدولة، ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (June 5)
[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.] “Egypt court rules Senate invalid” The High Constitutional Court rules to dissolve the Shura Council and pronounces the Constituent Assembly that drafted the constitution unconstitutional. “Legislative stalemate set to delay Egypt parliament polls to next year” The ruling of the High Constitutional Court sends back the electoral law for review in ...
Keep Reading »المجتمع المدني الافتراضي والتحول في مفهوم السيادة
عند مقارنة سرعة وسهولة الحصول على المعلومة في ما يتعلق بالثورة المعلوماتية بما كان يحدث في هذا الشأن قبل عشر سنوات سنجد هناك إختلافاً كبيراً، ليس فقط في وجود شبكة الإنترنت في حد ذاتها، وإنما في التطور الذي حدث في الأدوات والمواقع التي أنشئت عليها وقدرتها على خلق واقع إفتراضي غير مألوف للبشر من قبل. جعلت الملايين منهم يبلورون نطاقاً آخر للتفاعل يمكن تسميته مجازاً "المجتمع المدني الافتراضي" بخلاف النطاق الإجتماعي التقليدي كاسرين في ذلك حاجز الزمان والمكان بنقل المعلومة أو الرسالة في نفس لحظة حدوثها من أقصي الكرة الأرضية إلى أدناها. ونتيجة لذلك أخذ عصر حجب المعلومات والصندوق الأسود للمجتمعات يتراجع للوراء ليفسح المكان لعصر التفاعل والتعامل مع هذه ...
Keep Reading »Delivering Democracy: Repercussions of the 'Arab Spring' on Human Rights
[The following report was issued by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies on 16 May 2013.] Delivering Democracy: Repercussions of the 'Arab Spring' on Human Rights Introduction The battle for the “Arab Spring” continues to be waged on three fronts: between the revolutionaries and remaining members of the old regimes, between secularists and those who call for the establishment of a religious state, and between various actors of the international community. The context in which this struggle is taking place has become even more oppressive since 2011, as is clearly the case in both the Arab countries which saw the fall of ...
Keep Reading »Islamists and Transitional Justice
Suddenly, and in the same week, three of the largest Islamist movements started talking about transitional justice, demanding its implementation at once. Spokesman for the Salfist front, Hisham Kamal, asserted, "Mubarak should have been tried for all his crimes from the start, not only for killing protestors." Political consultant to al-Bina’ wa-al-Tanmiya (Building and Development) Party, the political army of al-Gama‘a al-Islamiyya, and member of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) Ossama Roshdy, said that the NCHR has set out to form a specialized committee for transitional justice. And member of the parliamentary bloc of the Freedom and ...
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. The government of Mohamed Morsi pushed through the new constitution, despite protests all around, including a ritualistic hair cutting ceremony in Tahrir ...
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 Court adjourns key lawsuit on status of Shura Council” The Constitutional Court delays its decision on the cases of the legality of the Shura Council and the Constituent ...
Keep Reading »حديثي مع الشيطان
٣٠ يونيو وما بعدها (الحلقة الأولى) لا يكون الواحد منا متجنياً إذا قال إن النظام السياسي الذي أسسه الإخوان، أو قل تأسس نتيجة للمسار الانتقالي الذي قاده المجلس العسكري ثم الإخوان المسلمين، قد ولد ميتاً، وإن هذا النظام الجديد الذي يحمل الكثير من ملامح النظام القديم قد ولد حاملاً لكافة أزمات دولة مبارك المترهلة غير الكفء والمهترئة مؤسسياً، وأنه قد بدأ من حيث انتهى مبارك في مواجهة تجليات أزمة اجتماعية متفاقمة، وسيولة سياسية لم تمتص بعد من قبل أي ترتيب مؤسسي رغم توالي الاستفتاءات والانتخابات وتعدد ...
Keep Reading »Ministry of Culture or Ministry of Intellectuals?
Since the new minister of culture, Alaa Abdel-Aziz, took up his post, conversations about the attitude he has adopted to prove himself have not ceased within Egypt's cultural scene. The minister commenced his work in the ministry with a series of decisions to sack leading ministry figures, starting from the head of the General Egyptian Book Organization, and then the head of the Fine Arts Sector, followed by the head of the Cairo Opera House, and finally, the head of the National Library and ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (June 10)
[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.] “Egypt blacklisted for violating labour rights” The International Labor Organization says Egypt has violated international agreements for not providing independent ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (May 2013)
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 ...
Keep Reading »التطوير على طريقة عبد المنعم سعيد
كنا قد اتخذنا قراراً منذ بدء أزمة جريدة وموقع ”إيجيبت إندبندنت“، التابعَين لمؤسسة ”المصري اليوم“، ألا ندخل في مهاترات لا تهم القارئ الكريم. لكن مقال رئيس مجلس إدارة المؤسسة، الدكتور عبد المنعم سعيد، المنشور في 30 أبريل 2013 والمعنون ”أحلام المصري اليوم مرة أخرى“، دفعنا إلى كتابة رد مفصّل، احتراماً لحق القارئ في معرفة الحقيقة من ناحية أولى، وسعياً إلى وضع أزمة مشروعنا الصحفي المجهض في إطار الأزمة العامة للصحافة الحرة في مصر من ناحية ثانية. نكتب هذه السطور بينما يعود موقع “ايجيبت اندبندت” لنشر الاخبار التي ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Sentences Forty-Three NGO Staffers to One-Five Years in Prison
A court in Cairo has sentenced forty-three people to between one and five years in prison for working for unregistered NGOs in Egypt. Twenty-seven defendants, all of whom were tried in absentia, received five-year jail sentences. Eleven received one-year suspended sentences, and five received two-year sentences. One of the defendants to receive a two-year sentence was Dar Al-Hilal publishing company CEO Yehia Ghanem, who was a consultant for the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), ...
Keep Reading »The Journey of Protests in the Mediterranean and Beyond: A Discussion About and For Social Movements
There has been significant interest in the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia among Italian authors, but the majority of works on the topic follow a very traditional scheme: a narrative of the events in the context of mainstream discourses on liberalism and democracy, usually imbued with implicit normative claims. The only exception to this trend is represented by two books that Agenzia X, a Milan-based activist publishing house, published in 2012: Lorenzo Fe and Mohamed Hossny’s In Every Street: Voices of ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (May 27)
[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.] “Salafi sheikh describes how the soldiers were released” A sheikh involved in the release of the kidnapped soldiers says he is grateful to the armed forces for not resorting to ...
Keep Reading »أوهام ليبرالية
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 ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (May 20)
[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 ...
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 ...
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