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For Egypt's Voters, Revolution Feels Light Years Away
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The first presidential election following a popular uprising celebrated for giving Egyptians their voice back is not as glorious and exciting as it was expected to be. Instead, it’s marked by fear and disappointment. Having learned throughout the last year and a half that there’s no room for dreamy revolutionary aspirations in the world of electoral politics, most people seem to be choosing their candidate out of fear of the alternatives rather than conviction in their choices. A few days ahead of the big day, a dozen voters from different backgrounds and political inclinations interviewed by Egypt Independent all said that they were choosing “the least bad” option ...
Keep Reading »Post-January 25 Iranian-Egyptian Relations: A New Dawn?
![[Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the Shah of Iran upon his arrival at the Maadi Military Hospital on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt on March 24, 1980. Image by AP Photo.]](/content_images/3/sm_AP800324075.png "[Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the Shah of Iran upon his arrival at the Maadi Military Hospital on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt on March 24, 1980. Image by AP Photo.]")
Iranian-Egyptian relations have been an often-overlooked aspect of Middle Eastern and international politics over the last thirty years, due in no small part to the almost complete lack of ties between the two states following Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979. Whilst these two great Middle Eastern powers have been linked over thousands of years of history, the last thirty years have been characterized by a distinct lack of inter-state relations, and considerable enmity and distrust. However, with the fall of the Hosni Mubarak regime following the momentous events of 25 January 2011, will Iranian-Egyptian relations encounter a “new dawn”, characterized by ...
Keep Reading »لماذا سأقاطع الانتخابات الرئاسية؟
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سأقاطع الانتخابات لأنها ستجري فى إطار خارطة طريق ملتبسة، تحت إشراف لجنة انتخابات مشكوك فى نزاهتها، لانتخاب رئيس صلاحياته مجهولة، برعاية حاكم عسكري سلطوي. رغم أن الكثيرين يدركون ذلك إلا أنهم يرفضون المقاطعة من منطلق أن المشاركة هي الخيار الواقعي فى ظل عدم وجود بدائل. فلقد جاء رد الكثيرين على المقال الداعي للمقاطعة الذى نشر بالشروق، يوم 23 أبريل، متمثلاً في سؤال: «ما هو البديل؟» السؤال غير منطقي، هذا إذا كنا نؤمن بأننا فى ثورة. إن كانت «الثورة مستمرة» فعلى مؤيديها ألا يقبلوا المشاركة فى انتخابات يتنافسون فيها مع رموز النظام الذي قامت الثورة لإسقاطه. فلو كان جائزاً أن يتنافس مؤيدو الثورة مع مناهضيها في انتخابات قبل أن تحقق الثورة أهدافها، لكان من الأولى أن نقبل بما ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (May 21)
![[Egypt presidential elections posters. This image was originally posted to Flickr by Tarek.]](/content_images/3/sm_7189474188_2b0dd7c01e.jpg "[Egypt presidential elections posters. This image was originally posted to Flickr by Tarek.]")
[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.] “SCAF constitutional declaration expected to give president right to dissolve parliament" SCAF outlines roles of president, parliament and the army in a new constitutional document. “#EgyElections : And the first lady will be from these ladies..” Zenobia profiles the wives of the leading presidential candidates. “Shafiq supporters disrupt press ...
Keep Reading »Beejo and His Daughter Loubna: About the Egyptian President (In both Arabic and English)
![[Loubna, Beejo's daughter. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]](/content_images/3/sm_beejodaughter.jpg "[Loubna, Beejo's daughter. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]")
هذا هو الشريط الرابع في سلسة من الأفلام تنشرها ”جدلية“ بالإتفاق مع موقع ” العربي الحر“ ومن انتاجه. توثق هذه الأفلام الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء الذين تتحدث عنهم، وتبعات الثورات العربية سلباً وايجاباً على حياتهم. تتبع الكاميرات حيوات أفراد من أجيال وطبقات مختلفة، سواء كانوا من المدينة أو الريف، أغنياء أو فقراء. كما تحاول تتبع نشاطاتهم في مختلف المناطق العربية والتي يصعب عبور حدودها لأسباب معروفة. الفلم الرابع بعنوان “بيجو وابنته لبنى: عن الرئيس” من إخراج محمد صيام. يتجادل بيجو وابنته لبنى في حديقة بيتهما في الدرب الأحمر (القاهرة) حول الرئيس القادم. بيجو النجار، كما يعرف، هو والد ...
Keep Reading »Conference: The Egyptian Revolution One Year On (Oxford, 18-19 May 2012)
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Conference: The Egyptian Revolution, One Year On University of Oxford, 18-19 May 2012 You are warmly invited to register for the forthcoming international conference on The Egyptian Revolution, One Year On: Causes, Characteristics and Fortunes. The conference will be held on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 May 2012 at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. It is co-sponsored by the DPIR and John Fell OUP Research Fund, University of Oxford, with the generous support of the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College. It is convened by Reem Abou-El-Fadl of the DPIR and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Amidst the wave of scholarly interest this year ...
Keep Reading »Saudi Feminism: Between Mama Amreeka and Baba Abdullah
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On 9 May 2012, Manal al-Sharif was awarded the Havel Prize for Creative Dissent at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway. This came shortly after al-Sharif was honored as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World at a Gala in New York City. Such events have given rise to a pattern: just as numerous pictures and videos of activists attending various conferences and receiving numerous awards surface, waves of criticism pour in. Their motives are viewed with suspicion, worthiness is questioned, and a movement’s progress is reassessed. The most prevalent criticism of Manal al-Sharif was that she was accepting an award for political dissent when she was only, at ...
Keep Reading »The MOD Sit-in: Sometimes with the Islamists, Never with the State...
![[Protesters marching on the Egyptian Parliament to protest the Abbassiya crackdown. Image by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]](/content_images/3/sm_Hamalawy2.jpg "[Protesters marching on the Egyptian Parliament to protest the Abbassiya crackdown. Image by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]")
During the Monday march in solidarity with the Abbassiya detainees, a young comrade I know from Cairo University, a medical student who was among the field hospital doctors during the MOD sit-in, approached me, and told me the story of a Salafi woman in niqab, who kept on kissing the Revolutionary Socialists red flag during the sit-in, while shouting: “Forgive me I didn’t know about you before!” I replied back with the story of another comrade, who was entering the MOD sit-in and was being searched by a Salafi sheikh. When the latter found in the student’s bag the flag of the Revolutionary Socialists, Marxist books, as well as issues from The Socialist newspaper, he ...
Keep Reading »Bringing the Revolution to Campus: An Interview with March 9 Activist Laila Soueif
Laila Soueif, assistant professor of mathematics, Cairo University, is one of the founding members of the March 9 Movement for the Independence of Universities. The movement was founded in 2004 and became a part of the growing terrain of dissent that preceded the January 25 revolution (alongside Kifaya and other movements for change in different quarters). March 9 has opposed state security, government, and other ideological interventions into Egyptian university campuses, which stifle academic freedom. The movement has also been involved in strikes and protests by university faculty—both before and after the revolution—for better pay and pensions as well as for ...
Keep Reading »Suleiman and the Revolution (In both Arabic and English)
![[Suleiman Abdel Hakam. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]](/content_images/3/sm_ArabiHor_Suleiman.jpg "[Suleiman Abdel Hakam. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]")
ستقوم "جدلية" ابتداء من اليوم وبالتعاون مع موقع "العربي الحر"، بإعادة نشر شريطين وثائقيين من إنتاج "العربي الحر" كل اسبوع. توثق هذه الأشرطة الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء الذين تتحدث عنهم، وتبعات الثورات العربية سلباً وايجاباً على حياتهم. تتبع الكاميرات حيوات أفراد من أجيال وطبقات مختلفة، سواء كانوا من المدينة أو الريف، أغنياء أو فقراء. كما تحاول تتبع نشاطاتهم في مختلف المناطق العربية والتي يصعب عبور حدودها لأسباب معروفة. الشريط الأول في هذه السلسلة بعنوان "سليمان والثورة". وسليمان عبد الحكم هو طفل مصري في السادسة من عمره يعيش مع والديه بمنطقة العجوزة بالقاهرة. ...
Keep Reading »Can Egypt Have a President Without a Constitution?
Everyone is awaiting the outcome of Egypt's first post-Mubarak presidential election with baited breath. For many, the election of a new president will restore the stability Egyptians have been longing for since Mubarak's ouster early last year. For others, a new president means the end of the military's involvement in politics. For others still, the victory of their favorite candidate will usher in a new age of freedom and social justice. All of this is wishful thinking, of course. Most Egyptians don’t ...
Keep Reading »Egypt's Working Class and the Question of Organization
“Who is the labor candidate in this presidential election?” This is a question I have been asked frequently in the past few days. My answer is “no one.” Despite the presence of left wing candidates in the race, including labor lawyer Khaled Ali, who by all accounts is the most experienced in labor organizing among his counterparts (even when he repeatedly denies the accusation of being a “socialist,” and advocates a “strong private sector” working hand in hand with a state-run public sector), ...
Keep Reading »Interview with Egyptian Presidential Candidate Abdel Moneim Abul Fettouh
I interviewed Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abul Fettouh. In three short parts below, Mr. Abul Fettouh discusses the most important aspects of his electoral platform, covering a variety of economic and political issues.
Keep Reading »Egypt's Presidential Election: Meet the Contenders
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 ...
Keep Reading »Critical Perspectives on EBRD "Transition" Investment Priorities in Egypt (Video)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was created twenty-one years ago with the purpose of supporting the transition to democracy and market economies in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Following the Arab uprisings of 2011, it was tasked by its shareholders, including the United States and the European Union, to assist the "democratic" transitions in the southern and eastern Mediterranean region. Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco are the ...
Keep Reading »Egypt Media Roundup (May 14)
[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.] “'I'll believe it when I see it': SCAF rule in Egypt approaches its scheduled end” Dina Ezzat questions SCAF’s promises to step down after the inauguration of Egypt’s next ...
Keep Reading »ثورة الجسد
لم يضرم الشاب التونسي، محمد البوعزيزي، النار في نفسه بل أضرمها في جسده. فعندما قام يوم الجمعة ١٧ ديسمبر/كانون الأول عام ٢٠١٠ بسكب الوقود على جسده وإشعاله احتجاجاً على بطش السلطات كان يرسل رسالة واضحة مفادها أن باستطاعة جسده أن يعبر عما تجيش به نفسه بشكل أبلغ من أي شكوى يكتبها وبطريقة أبلغ من أي هتاف يردده. وبالفعل كان من جراء هذا الفعل الدرامي أن سقط نظام من أقوى الأنظمة العربية ومن أشدها قمعاً واستبداداً. الجسد والعسكر إن هذا اليقين ببلاغة الجسد وقدرته على تحدي السلطة رأيناه يتمثل في ...
Keep Reading »Egypt's Presidential Duel an Epic Moment (Video)
Millions of Egyptians were glued to their TV sets on Thursday evening, 10 May 2012, watching the first-ever televised debate between the two presidential candidates leading opinion polls in recent weeks. The live telecast—two weeks before the country’s first multi-candidate Presidential elections—was an opportunity for Egyptians to learn more about the two expected election front runners‘ visions for “the new Egypt” and hear their stances vis-a-vis issues like security and the relationship between ...
Keep Reading »Egyptian Parliamentary Protests in Pictures
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 »جدلية صعود أبو الفتوح وإمكانية استنساخ النموذج الأردوجاني
جاء الصعود السريع لحضور ودور أبو الفتوح في سباق الرئاسة المصرية ليعيد إلى الأذهان تجربة الصعود السياسي لأردوجان في تركيا في نهاية التسعينات وبداية القرن الحادي والعشرين. ولعل العودة إلى السنوات الخمس البارزة في تاريخ النظام السياسي التركي، خصوصا بين عامي 1997- 2002، تعين على فهم وتفسير عمليات وسياسات وسياقات صعود القيادات والحركات السياسية من خلال المقارنة بين أبو الفتوح وأردوجان وكشف جوانب التشابه والاختلاف بين النمطين والسياقين. ويلاحظ بداية أن تجربة خروج أبو الفتوح من عباءة الإخوان تشبه من أوجه ...
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