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Organizing for No Military Trials for Civilians: Interview with Egyptian Activist Shahira Abouellail
Since the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) assumed interim governance of Egypt on 28 January 2011, at least twelve thousand civilians have been subjected to speedy military trials, often without any access to lawyers, witnesses, or evidence. SCAF is using military trials as a means to stifle dissent and ... Read More »
Call-Out for Solidarity with Egypt: Defend the Revolution
[The following statement was issued by the No Military Trials for Civilians Movement on 4 November 2011.] A letter from Cairo to the Occupy/Decolonize movements & other solidarity movements. After three decades of living under a dictatorship, Egyptians started a revolution demanding bread, freedom and ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Wilson Chacko Jacob, Working Out Egypt
Wilson Chacko Jacob, Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Wilson Chacko Jacob: Working Out Egypt has a number of possible origins, some related to decisions I have made and others ... Read More »
The "Maspero Crime": Accounts Against the Counter-Revolution’s Power, Media, and Religion
At that point, I was alone, and so I began to walk back to Tahrir. Someone saw me tweeting and came to me. He asked me my name. So I said, “Hani Sobhi.” He then grabbed my wrists to see if I had a cross tattoo. And when he did not find one, he asked for my full name. I said, “Hani Sobhi Bushra.” He asked me if I was a ... Read More »
Unfulfilled Promises and Demands in Post-Revolution Egypt: Interview with Wael Gamal
In this short interview, Wael Gamal discusses the unfulfilled promises and demands in post-revolution Egypt. Since February, the powers that be in Egypt, symbolized and represented by the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces, had promised or agreed to implement a number of policies and decisions that comport with the ... Read More »
Two Hands Clapping: the Double Logic of Counter-Revolution
On 23 January 2011, President Hosni Mubarak strolled to the podium of Egypt’s ornate police academy auditorium to deliver his annual Police Day address. Just five days later, after a great wave of popular protests had all but shattered the very security forces he had come to celebrate, Mubarak would appear on ... Read More »
We Will Not Pay the Debts of Tyranny
“In the transition from an oligarchy or a tyranny to a democracy…persons refuse to fulfill their contracts or any other obligations, on the ground that the tyrant, and not the state, contracted them”—Aristotle. Egypt owes about thirty-five billion USD (or 210 billion EGP) in foreign debts, which impose on us ... Read More »
Press Release from the Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt's Debt
Press Release Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt's Debt Four Events Worldwide Mark the Global Day for the Cancellation of Egypt's Debt October 31st marks the global day for the cancellation of Egypt's debt in Cairo and a number of other cities around the world. Independent activists and a number of civil ... Read More »
Solidarity Letter from Cairo
[The following statement was issued by activsts in Cairo on 24 October 2011.] To all those in the United States currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in solidarity. Having received so much advice from you about transitioning to democracy, we thought it’s our turn ... Read More »
Founding Statement of The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debts
The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debts “You Pay, You Monitor” Founding Statement The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debts was conceived as part of the January 25th Revolution, and affirms the right of the Egyptian people to assert collective control over all matters related to their life and the future of ... Read More »
Demand of Friday 28 October Demonstration in Tahrir Square
[The following flier has been circulating in print and on the internet in the lead up to the mass demonstration called for in Tahrir Sqaure on Friday 28 October 2012. It was translated from Arabic into English by Ziad Abu-Rish and Hesham Sallam.] 28 October Friday of the one demand We are not going out to demand a ... Read More »
Press Release Regarding Recent Referral of Egyptian Activist Michael Nabil Sanad to Abaseyya Mental Hospital
[The following press release was issued by the General Secretariat of Mental Health on 24 October 2011 in regards to the mental hospital referral of activist Michael Nabil Sanad, on trial because of allegedly insulting the military institution last March.] Considering the ongoing events the media department of ... Read More »
لن نرد ديون الإستبداد
«عندما تأخذ ديمقراطية مكان حكم القلة أو الاستبداد، فإن بعض الأشخاص يرفضون الوفاء بالعقود الموجودة بين أيديهم على أساس أن الدولة لم تكن هى التى دخلتها بل المستبد». (أرسطو) مصر مدينة للخارج بحوالى 35 مليار دولار أو 210 مليار جنيه تضع علينا عبئا سنويا يقدر بما يقرب من 18 مليار جنيه. هذه الديون تراكمت تحت حكم ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Alan Mikhail, "Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt"
Alan Mikhail, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. [Winner of the 2011 Roger Owen Book Award] Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Alan Mikhail: In the most general sense, I wrote this book because I wanted to understand the ... Read More »
The Maspero Massacre: The Military, the Media, and the 1952 Cairo Fire as Historical Blueprint
The Maspero Massacre and the official media policy that emerged in its wake can only be understood in the context of the ongoing struggle between the national security state and forces working to achieve a fledgling democracy in Egypt. The January Revolution was a transformative moment in the country’s history: a ... Read More »
Lawrence of E-rabia: Facebook and the New Arab Revolt
As the growing tide of protest, resistance, and insurrection across the Arab world began to threaten regimes once considered permanent fixtures of the region’s political landscape, it was almost as if everything had been turned upside down. That which always seemed so fixed and constant suddenly appeared temporary, ... Read More »
Generation Rev and the Struggle for Democracy: Interview with Aly El-Raggal
Generation Rev, the revolutionary generation that has overtaken the world stage, whether in Tahrir Square or on Wall Street, has arrived at a critical juncture. This group of twenty-somethings has been experimenting for five to six years with novel ways of doing politics. They are known for horizontal organizing, ... Read More »
المسيحيون العرب: مواطنون لا ذمّيّون
اليوم وقد بدأت مرحلة التغيير في العالم العربي بسقوط الأنظمة الدكتاتورية واحداً تلو الآخر، يجدر بنا التوقف مليا واعتبار مانريد أن نراه في المستقبل القريب وعلى المدى البعيد من تغييرات جوهرية في أنظمة حكمنا وفي ترتيب مجتمعاتنا وفي علاقاتنا ببعضنا البعض لكي نحقق المأمول من عدالة ومساواة أمام القانون وتوفير الحريات كافة ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat, "Being Young and Muslim"
Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat, editors, Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat: Both of us (editors) were involved in studying youth in Muslim majority ... Read More »
Sectarianism and the Revolution
There is a great deal of discussion in media circles of the attacks on Coptic protesters that took place this past Sunday. Much of this discussion has framed the attacks as sectarian and, specifically, as anti-Christian. Indeed, the language used in the headlines of various op-ed pieces is extremely ... Read More »
Video of Sunday's Attack on March to Maspero & Aftermath
[The following footage was shot by Sarah Carr and edited by Mostafa Hussein.] The below video shows the march at its beginning in Shubra, the first attack at the Shubra underpass, and the final assault by the army at Maspero, where protesters were shot and crushed by APCs. The video includes GRAPHIC scenes of the ... Read More »
القاهرة تنتحر، فمن يبلغ أدما ويعتذر من البطريرك؟
بقلم جان عزيز لم يكن الانفجار الطائفي في مصر، قبل يومين، انقلاباً على ما سمّي «ثورة 25 يناير»، لا بل هو نتيجة مباشرة لمنطقها وأحداثها. فعلى مدى عقود طويلة، كان نظام كامل وشامل يقمع الطرفين: يقمع الإسلاميين أولاً، بما هم إيديولوجيا سياسية منبثقة من فكر ديني. ثم يقمع الأقباط ثانياً، بما هم جماعة دينية مغايرة للدين الذي ... Read More »
AJE Interview with Paul Sedra on Copts in Egypt and Recent Attack on Protesters
The following interview with Paul Sedra aired live on Sunday 10 October 2011. Paul discusses the build up to and context of the protest of over 10,000 Egyptians (mainly Copts), which was attacked by plain clothed thugs as well as military personnel on Sunday 9 October. The attacks left at least seventeen dead and many ... Read More »
Academic Tourists Sight-Seeing the Arab Spring
I would like to share with this short piece a concern that several of us in academia in Cairo have been facing with the impact of the Arab Spring, to point to some frustrations regarding the continuing unequal academic relationship between so-called “local” and Western experts of the Middle East, between broadly ... Read More »
An Excerpt from 'Remarking January 25 - A Series of Six'
Months have passed since the uprising of 25 January and yet many of the struggles for transformative change that the protests that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak attempted to advance remain at best incomplete and at worst under attack. Immediately after Mubarak’s resignation, it was hard to imagine that seven ... Read More »
Interview with Hossam El-Hamalawy on Counter-Revolution in Egypt
Seven months after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the popular debate on what constitutes genuine change and revolution in Egypt rages on. The decapitated hydra of Mubarak's regime lives on under a different guise, but average citizens seem more determined than ever to not let any special interests steal their hard-won ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Paul Sedra, "From Mission to Modernity"
Paul Sedra, From Mission to Modernity: Evangelicals, Reformers and Education in Nineteenth Century Egypt. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Paul Sedra: As an undergraduate, I had a strong interest in contemporary relations between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt, and ... Read More »
لماذا تنجح حركة العمال ويخفق السياسيون؟
لم تتلق حركة على الساحة السياسية المصرية مابعد الثورة ما تلقته الحركة العمالية من هجوم. ففي حملة دعاية مكثفة، أدان الإعلام وأحزاب عديدة، بعضها حديث التأسيس، اعتصاماتهم وإضراباتهم على أنها "فئوية"، تضر بالاقتصاد وحياة المصريين بل بمستقبل الثورة ذاتها. وسارعت حكومة عصام شرف والمجلس العسكري بإصدار قانون يجرم ... Read More »
An Interview with Ramy Esam
[This is the second installment in a series on artists of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Click here for the first interview.] Of all the artists who rose to fame during the demonstrations leading to the fall of deposed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, Ramy Essam was the most renowned. A twenty-three year old ... 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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