...Egyptian revolutionaries themselves. Indeed, some commentators continue to insist that in fact nothing has really changed in Egypt and that despite five free elections in the eighteenth months since the...
VIPREG2024 how to get free promo code in 1xbet Egypt
The surprising history of global blasphemy law
...free speech, they often act as though such speech floats above actual historical circumstance. Insulated against history, free speech can appear almost religious, at least in one critic’s sense of...
Incoherent nationalism: Monuments to extinction in Sisi’s Egypt
...but because first and before anything else I’m Egyptian. It was God’s will that I was born into a Jewish family. This is the heritage of Egypt. Egypt is a...
America in the Egyptian revolution
by Atef Said...security apparatus in Egypt today to the extent to which Egyptians have successfully freed themselves from a culture of fear. I have been particularly interested in how the U.S. has...
Egypt at the crossroads
by Mbaye Lo...been trusted to you by the great people of Egypt.” As thousands celebrated the victory of the Freedom and Justice Party—part of the 84-year-old Muslim Brotherhood organization—in Tahrir Square, just...
Is democracy the question?
by Sarah Eltantawi...of the 2011 revolution—“bread, freedom, and social justice”—and the failures of all political entities in Egypt to achieve them? These entities include the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF),...
Egypt’s revolution and the new feminism
by Margot Badran...stage of building a new Egypt began. The youth-driven Revolution of 2011, with its call for freedom and justice, is inscribing a new feminism, with a fresh lexicon and syntax....
Electoral legitimacy, not religious legitimacy
by Mohamad Elmasry...Islamists could not be trusted to respect Egypt’s democratic process. Lo also seems to uncritically accept claims made about the Muslim Brotherhood by some of Egypt’s political liberals. Lo suggests...
Religious publicity and transnational minority politics
...facilitates different prospects for Coptic participation in US political life, as compared to their minority status in Egypt. (In)visibility in Egypt In Egypt, Copts have sought to be visible in...
Islamic law as “code”: Language, system, power
...in Islamic jurisprudential traditions. Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) is a technology, and the fuqaha (jurisprudents) are programmers, making the law “code” in more senses than one. If the code is a...