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On Monday, 18 July Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani and Monica Marks discussed the 25 July constitutional referendum in Tunisia. This episode of Connections examines the motives and objectives behind the referendum called by President Kais Saied, and the respo..

Join us on Monday, 18 July for a discussion about the 25 July constitutional referendum in Tunisia with Monica Marks. This episode of Connections will examine the motives and objectives behind the referendum called by P..

The Constitutional Court has ruled that the penalization of Academics for Peace on the charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” has violated their freedom of expression.

This book seeks to centralize the role of law in the Arab Spring, and to centralize Arab Spring to major legal and constitutional debates. While much has been written about the political and economic aspects of the Arab Spring, the role of law remains understudied and insufficiently theori..

Mazen Masri, The Dynamics of Exclusionary Constitutionalism:

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The day is near. This coming Sunday, 16 April 2017, citizens of Turkey will make their way to the polls to vote on a constitutional referendum that will inexorably alter the Turkish government. The referendum, which consists of eighteen proposed ame..

Nimer Sultany, “Religion and Constitutionalism: Lessons from American and Islamic Constitutionalism.” Emory International Law Review Volume 28, Issue 1 (2014).

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Successfully passing the tests of democracy while the whole region seems to be doomed to a chronic state of turmoil, Tunisia is considered to have set a good example for the “Arab Spring” countries and is expected to prove that a happy end..

August 15, 2014

Dr. Phyllis M. Wise
Chancellor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Swanlund Administration Building
601 John Street
Champaign, IL 61820

Dear Dr. Wise:

As scholars of free speech and constitutional law, we write to express alarm at..

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On 3 December 2013, Amr Moussa, the head of the Egyptian Committee of 50 tasked with amending the suspended Constitution of 2012, presented the new Egyptian draft constitution to the interim president of Egypt, Judge Adly Mansour.

The draft will be put to a referendum within thirty days of..

I (very) briefly grappled with whether to vote, or boycott this referendum but after the experience of covering the

Elizabeth F. Thompson, Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Jadaliyya (J): What..

For at least four months, Egypt’s legal framework will be the Constitutional Declaration issued by Interim President Adly Mansour on 8 July.

The thirty-three-article declaration has been designed to provide a basic constitutional backbone until a committee reviews the 2012 Constitution, ma..

Youth groups say interim president has vowed to issue constitutional addendum `soon` addressing their collective reservations.

The Rebel campaign and the 6 April Youth Movement both stated on Tuesday that interim president Adly Mansour had listened to their reservations regarding Egypt`s n..

Embattled Muslim Brotherhood issues statement rejecting new constitutional declaration outlining upcoming transitional period, describes document as `illegitimate`.

Egypt`s Muslim Brotherhood rejected a constitutional declaration issued by Egypt`s interim President Adly Mansour on Monday l..

Some critics say the new declaration includes controversial articles from the suspended 2012 constitution.

The constitutional declaration issued Monday night by interim president Adly Mansour has sparked opposition, with some calling for it to be amended before it comes into force when it ..

Mahmoud Badr, spokesperson of the ‘Rebel’ (Tamarod) movement, has said that the group was “surprised” by the presidency’s constitutional decree. 

The group, which spearheaded the 30 June protests that toppled former president Mohamed Morsi, was reportedly unaware of the content..

Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour has issued the anticipated constitutional declaration that will remain effective until the end of the ongoing transitional period, which will last for least six months according to the declaration.

The transitional period has started upon issuing of t..

Five hours after its set deadline, Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi addressed the nation with a roadmap for Egypt’s political future, placing the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court as head of the state until early presidential elections take place.

News had emerged earlier of a ..

He told me to get off at the last kiosk on the highway that connects East with West Cairo. After the driver dropped me off, there was no one to be seen in the area. I walked down the concrete stairs by the side of the road. The stairs led me into the pit of this neighborhood named after a villag..