Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Mayss Al-Alami Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/74679 Tariq Shawqi was sworn in as Egypt’s education minister last February, joining the ranks of a group of technocrats in a cabinet not characterized by boldness. He has since challenged everything about the Egyptian education system—criticizing teachers, examinations, pedagogy...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, May El-Sadany Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/10/30/how-state-of-emergency-became-egypt-s-new-normal-pub-73587 For the first time in six months, Egyptians lived for a few days outside of a state of emergency this month. And the country’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) ruled that ordinary courts — not military ones —...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Mariam Ghanem Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/70103 Over the past month, debate in Egypt has centered around a legislative initiative designed to reorganize the way the country’s religious establishment is governed. At first glance, the initiative appeared designed to place the top leadership of Al-Azhar, the sprawling...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/68791 Since July 2013, Egyptian politics has seemed grimly predictable, with authoritarianism reestablishing itself firmly in the country, challenged only at the margins, or through terrorism and insurgency. Most of the lively politics of the immediate post-2011 period has all but ceased. Indeed...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/04/13/egypt-is-in-state-of-emergency.-here-s-what-that-means-for-its-government-pub-68663 After Palm Sunday bombings killed close to four dozen churchgoers in two Egyptian cities, President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi and the Egyptian cabinet declared a nationwide state of emergency, which was...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Mariam Ghanem Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/68001 On July 3, 2013, General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, surrounded by a group of national figures, announced the deposition of Mohammed Morsi as president of Egypt and a “road map” to a new political order in Egypt. Conspicuous among his backers was Grand Imam Ahmad
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/67771 Since 1997, U.S. law has empowered the secretary of state to designate specific groups as “foreign terrorist organizations,” bringing down on them—and those who support them—an imposing range of penalties and sanctions. Such designations have come through a...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Amr Hamzawy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/12/07/egyptian-court-just-struck-down-part-of-repressive-new-law.-here-s-what-that-means-pub-66380 Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) struck down a portion of the country’s protest law this week — one issued by decree by its own chief justice (then-interim president) in...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/64999 When I first visited Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) a quarter of a century ago, it was tucked away in dusty offices in the High Court building in downtown Cairo. The only bar to entering it was figuring out the location. It is now ensconced
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Yasser El-Shimy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/01/25/did-sisi-save-egypt-pub-62587 Five years ago, the leaders of Egypt’s protest movement shocked themselves by successfully bringing down President Hosni Mubarak, who had been in power since before many of them were born. In those days, it was not unusual to hear talk of...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/12/07/egypt-s-new-parliament-posturing-without-politics-pub-62210 Judging from the number of times they have been summoned to the polls in recent years, Egyptians would seem to have an enthusiastically democratic system. Judging from the comments of most analysts, Egyptians have returned to...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/10/13/why-egypt-s-new-parliament-will-be-born-broken-pub-61608 Over the coming weeks, Egyptians will vote in parliamentary elections in which nobody knows who will win yet everybody knows the result. The regime will then claim (inaccurately) that the “road map” — announced when former...
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