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The Seven Wonders of the Revolution
Around the corner from Tahrir Square, the heart of Egypt’s eighteen-day uprising, Mohamed Mahmud Street bears the scars of a turbulent political year in Egypt. The once-bustling street off of Tahrir Square has seen its share of violent battlefields--beginning with 28 January 2011 and ending with the February 2012 clashes following the Port Said massacre. The pavements that once carried students from the American University of Cairo (AUC), Lycee Francais and Deutsche Schule ...
جنرالات مصر ورأس المال العابر للحدود
[نشرت هذه الدراسة في مجلة “ميدل إيست ريبورت” 262، ربيع 2012، وترجمتها من الإنجليزية سهى فاروق.] قبل ان يطرد حسني مبارك من منصبه، وبعد ذلك ايضاً، ظل حجم حصة الجيش المصري في الاقتصاد موضع جدلٍ كبير. فمن المعروف أن الجيش يشارك في تصنيع كل شئ، ابتداءاً من زيت الزيتون وتلميع ...
مقاطعة انتخابات الرئاسة واجب
تعلن الجبهة القومية للعدالة والديمقراطية رفضها التام لما تم إقراره من ترتيبات بخصوص انتخابات الرئاسة. فلا يمكن لأي شعب يبتغي الحرية أن يقبل بترتيبات تسلبه حقه في اختيار من يحكمه طبقاً لنظام اختيار شفاف، ومعايير حكم واضحة، وأسس حكم متفق عليها ومحددة قبل اختيار الحاكم، وأمانة ...
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 ... Read More »
Conference: The Egyptian Revolution One Year On (Oxford, 18-19 May 2012)
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 ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
Saudi Feminism: Between Mama Amreeka and Baba Abdullah
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 ... Read More »
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. ... Read More »
The MOD Sit-in: Sometimes with the Islamists, Never with the State...
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 ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
Suleiman and the Revolution (In both Arabic and English)
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 ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
Egypt Media Roundup (May 7)
[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 ... Read More »
Video: ONTV's Reem Maged on Egyptian Media and the Military (Arabic)
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: ... Read More »
مصر وأكاذيب الديمقراطية السياسية
"إنه عرس الديمقراطية الأكبر"…ترددت هذه العبارة في كل المناسبات التي أعلن فيها عن القيام بإجراء أو أكثر من إجراءات ما يسمى بـ " عملية الانتقال الديمقراطي في مصر "، في الاستفتاء على التعديلات الدستورية ، وفي انتخابات مجلسي الشعب والشورى ، وفي الإعلان عن البدء في إجراءات الانتخابات الرئاسية ، ... Read More »
''I'm Getting Arrested,'' Therefore I Exist!
It was in the early morning hours of 13 March 2012 that Egyptians on Twitter were alerted by a message sent from fellow tweep Mostafa Sheshtawy’s phone. He had been picketing at the German University in Cairo’s (GUC) strike. In the SMS, the activist said he was being arrested. Startled by the news, fellow activists ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Mohammad Salama and Rachel Friedman, Locating the Secular in Sayyid Qutb
Mohammad Salama and Rachel Friedman, “Locating the Secular in Sayyid Qutb.” Arab Studies Journal Vol. XX No. 1 (Spring 2012). Jadaliyya (J): What led you to write this article? Mohammad Salama and Rachel Friedman (MS and RF): The post-revolutionary political scene in Egypt, with at least fourteen Islamist parties ... Read More »
Political Estrangement, Legal Challenges Hamper Labor Movement
With the ongoing marginalization of Egypt’s working classes, the revolutionary demands of “bread, freedom, and social justice” remain distant goals. On this second Labor Day since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, numerous labor grievances remain unaddressed, and workers are just as politically sidelined as they were prior to ... Read More »
تحولات السلفيين: التسييس مفكك الأيديولوجيا
يمر الخطاب السلفي في مصر بمرحلة تحولات مهمة في الخطاب والممارسة في أعقاب ثورة يناير 2011، وهذا يرجع لعمليات التسييس الجذرية التي تحدث لقواعده وقياداته في وقت لم يستكمل فيه السلفيون بعد الشروط المطلوبة للعمل السياسي، لا بمعناها البراجماتي إجرائياً، ولا بمعناها التمثيلي والتفاوضي للمصالح المختلفة ... Read More »
The Egyptian Revolution and Neo-Liberal Economics (Video)
The following video report on the demands and struggles surrounding redistributive justice in Egypt before and after the 2011 uprosing was produced by The Real News Network. Read More »
Birds of Darkness In The Egyptian Sky
The Misdemeanor Court in al-Haram, Cairo held up a three-month prison sentence on Tuesday against Adel Imam, one of the most popular comedians in the region. He was accused by Islamists of insulting religion in his films, some dating back 30 years. The Birds of Darkness, from the title of one of Adel Imam’s most ... Read More »
Egypt Media Roundup (April 30)
[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 ... Read More »
الأزهر يريد تحرير أفغانستان
قصة لابد منها: منذ عقد أو يزيد كانت المواقف السياسية للأزهر الشريف تتسم بكونها بطيئة وهادئة مهما كانت جسامة الحدث وخطورته، وقتها كان يروج للجماهير عبر وسائل الإعلام أن تلك هي وسطية الإسلام وأن عليهم آلا ينصرفوا إلى الآخرين المتعصبين، كما أن الأزهر كمؤسسة دينية لا دخل لها بالشؤون السياسية التي يتولاها أهلها من ذوى ... Read More »
Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature
Mara Naaman, Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. [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.] In January and February of 2011, ... Read More »
اليسار في الزمن الثوري
تحمل الثورات العربية إلى اليسار مزيجاً من التحدي الوجودي والفرصة التاريخية. والفيصل بين الإثنين هو قدرة اليسار على التعلّم من الدروس البليغة التي تحملها العملية الثورية، وبلورة مشروعه ودوره فيها، وتدبّر كيفية الرد على تحدياتها. فلعل في ذلك ما يدفع اليسار إلى مغادرة مندبة النقد الذاتي، كفارة ذنوبه التي لا تنتهي، ... Read More »
نعم لمقاطعة الانتخابات الرئاسية
حتى تاريخ كتابة هذه السطور، نعد نحن المواطنون المصريون الذين ننوي مقاطعة الانتخابات الرئاسية الوشيكة أقلية. يتهمنا الكثيرون بالسلبية وأرى أن قرارنا هو عين الإيجابية بلا شك. بل إنني أرى أن من كانوا معنا على نفس الدرب ثم تركوه، من هتفوا معنا «لا انتخابات تحت حكم العسكر» فى يناير وفبراير، ثم تراجعوا وتنازلوا عن المبدأ، ... Read More »
Let's Talk About Sex
This week Foreign Policy published a “Sex Issue.” They explained their decision to feature a special issue with these words Foreign Policy's first-ever Sex Issue…is dedicated…to the consideration of how and why sex—in all the various meanings of the word—matters in shaping the world's politics. Why? ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Gilbert Achcar, Eichmann in Cairo: The Eichmann Affair in Nasser's Egypt
Gilbert Achcar, “Eichmann in Cairo: The Eichmann Affair in Nasser's Egypt.” Arab Studies Journal Vol. XX No. 1 (Spring 2012). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Gilbert Achcar (GA): The story of this article resembles that of my book The Arabs and the Holocaust, of which it can be seen as a sequel. In ... Read More »
Pageantry, Military Myths, and Egypt's “Daddy Complex”
The Egyptian calendar is punctuated by various celebrations associated with military events. The Sixth of October had typically been the most flamboyant of those celebrations. Normally, the population does not actively participate in these festivities. On the streets, the Sixth of October feels like any other day; ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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Egypt Elections Watch Update
A Jadaliyya and Ahram Online Initiative
As part of the Egypt Elections Watch (EEW), Jadaliyya and Ahram Online, with the Center of Contemporary Arab Studies (Georgetown University) and the Middle East Studies Program (George Mason University) as co-sponsors, will produce articles/posts/profiles on a weekly basis, covering organizations, political parties, coalitions, relevant laws and procedures, and profiles of key individuals related to the Egyptian elections. This is in addition to news updates summarizing major developments surrounding the lead-up to the election, such as emerging or shifting alliances, new political positions, and candidacy announcements. If you have questions, comments, contributions, and/or an eye-witness account, please email us at: eew@jadaliyya.com. For a listing of EEW’s team members please click here.
Coalitions
Democratic Alliance for Egypt
Egyptian Bloc
Islamist Bloc (Alliance for Egypt)
Revolution Continues Alliance
Parties
Al-Adl Party
Egyptian Current Party
Egyptian Social Democratic Party
Egyptian Tahrir Party
Democratic Workers’ Party
Free Egyptians Party
Freedom and Justice Party
Ghad Al-Thawra Party (Hizb Ghad Al-Thawra)
Al-Karama Party
National Progressive Unionist (Tagammu) Party
National Democratic Party Offshoots
Al-Nour Party
Reform and Development Party-Misruna
Socialist Popular Alliance Party
Al-Wafd Party
Al-Wasat Party
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Egypt Map and Stats
Population 82,079,636
GDP $497.8 billion
Unemployment 9%; Youth Unemployment (ages 15-24): 24.8%
Internet Users 20.136 million (2009)
Exchange Rate 5.6124 Egyptian pounds per US dollar
GDP Growth Rate 5.1%
Military Expenditures 3.4% of GDP (World Rank: 35)
Health Expenditures 6.4% of GDP (World Rank: 94)
Population Growth Rate 1.96%
Age Structure 0-14 years: 32.7%; 15-64 years: 62.8%; 65 years and over: 4.5%
Literacy 71.4%
Religious Demographics Muslim (mostly Sunni) 90%; Coptic 9%; other Christian 1%
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