Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 1, 2014
Summary of six Arabic media articles of January 1, 2014
Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 22, 2014
Date of meeting: January 14, 2014
Participants: Kees Hulsman, Mohamed Khayyal, Jenna Ferrecchia, Christiane Paulus, Hala Fahmy, Adel Rizkallah, Yosra El Gendi, Esther Schoorel, Mette Toft Nielsen
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 19, 2014
The future of the Salafi Nūr [Nour] Party is in question, and it is yet uncertain if they will survive in the post-June 30 era, let alone thrive. The new constitution bars the formation of political parties based on religion in Article 74, and it will be up to the judiciary to decide if the Nūr...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 19, 2014
The quip often attributed to Otto van Bismarck may apply to Egypt’s constitution: Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them made. Recent articles in this series attempt to do just that; peel back the layers to watch how certain articles came to be.
But the quip does not apply as well to...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 6, 2014
By self-description, Mus’ad Abū al-Fajr really wasn’t that important. In almost every categorization he was in the minority. But he also counts himself a ‘son of the revolution’ and fully worthy. And as a Bedouin, his participation in Egypt’s constitutional Committee of Fifty was itself one of its...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 4, 2014
Sa’d al-Dīn al-Hilālī is a professor of comparative jurisprudence at Azhar University, where he is acknowledged as an expert in both sharī‘ah and international legal systems. Perhaps for this acumen he was selected as a member of the Committee of Fifty tasked to amend the Egyptian constitution. But...
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 18, 2014
Since January 2014 I am the Editor of the Maadi Messenger in Cairo Egypt. The Maadi Messenger is distributed to 4000 people, mainly expatriates, in Cairo. One of my first articles for the Maadi Messenger was about Christians in Shubra, see: http://www.maadimessenger.com/
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 18, 2014
On February 21, 2014, Hala Shukrallah made history. As a Copt and as a woman, she won the internal elections for leadership in the Constitution Party, founded by Muhammad al-Barād’ī in April 2012. The party quickly won the support and membership of many youth, inspired by the goals and principles...
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 18, 2014
Arab West Report met with Ihāb al-Kharrāt in his office just off Tahrir Square on March 15, 2014, shortly before the presidential elections. Kharrāt is one of the founding members of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, and though the party remained neutral, he endorsed Hamdīn Sabbāhī, one of the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 17, 2014
National reconciliation, once achieved, is a decisive result experienced by many countries which have suffered from radical regime transformations or internal conflicts. It is considered one of the most important terms of any political settlement.