Post Type – Page 162 – Middle East Policy Platform

Nubians, the Egyptian State, and the Right of Return

2017 Egypt Human Rights Minorities Mohamed El Dahshan Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

October 19, 2017 03:34 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Mohamed El Dahshan Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/nubians-the-egyptian-state-and-the-right-of-return/ Smiling faces playing tambourines on the deck of a sailboat in the southern city of Aswan are a staple of Egyptian official tourism promotion videos. Aswanis, and Nubians in general, are renowned for kindness and...

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TIMEP Brief: Protest and Freedom of Assembly in Egypt

2017 Egypt Human Rights Judicial Affairs Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Unknown

October 18, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/timep-brief-protest-and-freedom-of-assembly-in-egypt/#authorbio Egypt’s Protest Law has been invoked against peaceful assemblies despite judicial and legislative attempts to liberalize its Article 10, which delineates the government’s power to prevent protests. Arrests under the...

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The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights’ Position on the Death Penalty

2017 Democracy and Politics Egyptian Initiative For Personal Rights Human Rights Paper Unknown

October 10, 2017 05:54 am

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Source: Egyptian Initiative For Personal Rights Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://eipr.org/en/publications/egyptian-initiative-personal-rights%E2%80%99-position-death-penalty Introduction The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) opposes the death penalty in principle and in all cases without exception, because it constitutes a grave violation of human rights, does not achieve...

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Egypt | Human rights & freedom of expression in Egypt – trapped between security services and the media

2017 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Human Rights Media Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Unknown

October 04, 2017 06:27 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=20296&lang=en Following the escalating violent attempts to suppress and divide civil society organizations, restrict their resources, and increase security measures to silence advocates for human rights and freedom of speech and expression in Egypt, the Egyptian state and media have...

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Sisi’s Expanding Authority

2017 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Maged Mandour Paper

October 04, 2017 05:56 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Maged Mandour Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/73227 In advance of Egypt’s presidential election, scheduled to take place between February and May 2018, Egyptian MP Ismail Nasreddine put forth a proposal to amend Article 140 of the Egyptian Constitution to extend the presidential term from four to six years, postponing the election until...

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The Right to Citizenship in Egypt’s Age of Terror

2017 Human Rights Judicial Affairs May El-Sadany Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

October 02, 2017 05:54 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): May El-Sadany Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/the-right-to-citizenship-in-egypts-age-of-terror/ Shortly after President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi suggested at a side meeting of the United Nations General Assembly that the state of human rights in Egypt should not be judged from a Western perspective, Egypt’s cabinet gathered...

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Egypt between 2 Boxes: Elections and ammunition

2017 Democracy and Politics Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Khaled Fouad Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

October 01, 2017 03:40 am

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Source: Egyptian Institute For Studies Author(s): Khaled Fouad Original Link: http://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-between-2-boxes-elections-and-ammunition/ While Egypt’s 2018 presidential elections are approaching, there is a key question that needs to be answered before going into any details related to the upcoming elections, namely: To what extent can the ballot boxes win the ammunition boxes? In...

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1095 Days of al-Sisi’s Presidency: The Upcoming Egyptian Presidential Elections on SNS

2017 Democracy and Politics Media Michael Barak Paper The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

September 30, 2017 05:52 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/1095-days-al-sisi%E2%80%99s-presidency-upcoming-egyptian-presidential-elections-sns Against the backdrop of preparations for the Egyptian presidential elections scheduled for April 2018, social networking sites (SNS) in Egypt have been, for several months...

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The British U-Turn on Egypt

2017 Amr Darrag Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Foreign Relations Paper

September 20, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: Egyptian Institute For Studies Author(s): Amr Darrag Original Link: http://en.eipss-eg.org/the-british-u-turn-on-egypt/ The British U-Turn on Egypt In the past few weeks, British officials have made statements and moves which have mostly lent strong support to the current Egyptian regime – and ones which ignore the growing violations, perpetrated constantly and methodologically, by the...

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Why Egypt Must Work Toward Abolishing the Death Penalty

2017 Egypt Human Rights Judicial Affairs Paper Sherif Azer The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

September 19, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Sherif Azer Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/why-egypt-must-work-toward-abolishing-the-death-penalty/ International rights groups this summer criticized death sentences issued by the Egyptian judiciary following what they called unfair trials, with convictions based on confessions obtained through torture. Since 2013...

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Factbox: Egypt and North Korea

2017 Atlantic Council Democracy and Politics Egypt Foreign Relations Margaret Suter Paper

September 18, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: Atlantic Council Author(s): Margaret Suter Original Link: http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/factbox-egypt-and-north-korea On September 12, during a visit to Seoul, South Korea, Egypt’s Defense Minister reportedly announced that Egypt would be severing military ties with the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea. The alleged announcement and subsequent speculation...

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Al-Azhar and the Battle of Ideas against Extremist Islamism

2017 Atlantic Council Egypt H. A. Hellyer Islamic Movements and Institutions Paper

September 18, 2017 03:35 am

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Source: Atlantic Council Author(s): H. A. Hellyer Original Link: http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/al-azhar-and-the-battle-of-ideas-against-extremist-islamism The subject of extremist Islamism, and refuting it, remains a live one—and it is unlikely that it will change anytime soon. If there is ever a comprehensive and thorough response to extremist Islamism, it will have to take...

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