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, by BEININ Joel, EL-HAMALAWY Hossam
The longest and strongest wave of worker protest since the end of World War II is rolling through Egypt. In March, the liberal daily al-Masri al-Yawm estimated that no fewer than 222 sit-in strikes, work stoppages, hunger strikes and demonstrations had occurred during 2006. In the first five (…)
, by CLANCY Emma
As the regime of President Hosni Mubarak regime in Egypt faces a growing crisis of legitimacy, expressed by protests, boycotts and industrial strikes, the government has pushed through a referendum to amend the constitution and enshrine the country’s police-state laws. On March 25, Amnesty (…)
, by ALLISON Jamie
The Cairo Conference took place after a series of inspiring mass strikes that have spread across Egypt.
There were 220 major strikes in 2006, bringing out tens of thousands of workers. This strike wave, the largest in Egypt for a generation, has continued this year.
As the conference (…)
, par BEININ Joel
For the last ten years Muhammad ‘Attar, 36, has worked in the finishing department at the gigantic Misr Spinning and Weaving Company complex at Mahalla al-Kubra in the middle of the Nile Delta. He takes home a basic wage of about $30. With profit sharing and incentives, his net pay is about $75 (…)
, by EL HAMALAWY Hossam
Emad Mubarak is a busy man. Director of the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression, and a lawyer with the Hisham Mubarak Law Center, the leftist Mubarak cannot hold a meeting without being interrupted by the ring of his cell phone. The calls these days come from student members of the (…)
, by ELCHOUBAKI Amr
The Muslim Brotherhood must be incorporated within the political process, argues Amr Elchoubaki*. But this requires movement by both the organisation and the regime
Sometimes it appears that conflict between the government and the Muslim Brotherhood has been destined to be Egypt’s fate not (…)
, by EL BISHRI Tarek , HOWEIDY Amira
Tarek El-Bishri, 73, a prominent judge, scholar, historian and intellectual, has been a major inspiration to Egypt’s movements for change and dissent. In a general assembly this summer, pro- reform judges hailed El-Bishri as the “godfather of the Egyptian judiciary”.
In October 2004 El-Bishri (…)
, by Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
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Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court today found the government may not recognize the Bahai’i faith in official identification documents, leaving Baha’i Egyptian citizens unable to obtain necessary documents that must include a (…)
, by OWEN Roger
Fifty years on, four main lessons may be learned from the events surrounding the Suez crisis, writes Roger Owen*
The Suez crisis of October 1956 was one of those seminal twentieth-century events which connected the emerging Cold War with the early period of post- colonial independence. (…)
, by ISSA Salah
Salah Issa* reviews the July Revolution’s achievement in the years separating the 1956 victory at Suez from the 1967 Suez defeat
I saw my first theatre performance during the first week of November 1956, on the National Theatre stage. It was a day-time performance, 2pm-5pm, scheduled to (…)
, by FARAG Fatimah
Labour, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Left and the State; the mix could be explosive, reports Fatemah Farag
“The Muslim Brotherhood is contending these elections openly, and under their own banner, for the first time; economic and social pressures are squeezing the working class; contentious (…)
, by ALEXANDER Anne
July 26, 1956. A crowd, tens of thousands strong, gathered in Manshiyya Square in Alexandria, to hear a speech by Egypt’s president, Gamal Abd-al-Nasser. The atmosphere was tense—only days before Nasser had received a humiliating rebuff from the US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, to his (…)
, by NUJ
The National Union of Jounalists is to hold a demonstration outside Bush House, London, on Monday (5/6) in support of two BBC producers - both NUJ members - who were attacked after covering a meeting of the General Assembly of the Journalists’ Syndicate in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
The (…)
, by SOUEIF Ahdaf
Every sector of Egyptian society is struggling with the government to stop further chaos spreading across the Arab region.
It is now a year since the government of Egypt jacked up the violence of its response to pro-reform demonstrators. On the streets of the capital, state security forces (…)
, by EL-HAMALAWY Hossam
The two Youth for Change activists, Mohamed el-Sharqawi and Karim el-Sha’er, arrested yesterday by plain clothes security, were brutally tortured and sexually abused, say their lawyers and fellow activists who managed to see the two last night at the State Security Prosecutor’s office. (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
50 democracy activists arrested in Egypt
April 27, 2006
Fifty democracy activists in Egypt have been arrested and detained during peaceful protests at the Judges’ Club in Cairo. Police attacked and beat activists, hospitalizing Judge Mahmoud Hamza, a leading campaigner for judicial (…)
, by SLACKMAN Michael
CAIRO, Egypt, April 27 - Thousands of riot police sealed off access to Egypt’s High Court today, beating and arresting protesters who turned out to support two judges brought before a disciplinary panel for declaring that there was fraud in previous elections.
Police beat and arrested (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
At about 3:00 am on Monday 24 April, the Egyptian police raided a solidarity sit-in organised by Kefaya members and other activists of the democratic movement in front of the Judges Club in Cairo. The sit-in aimed at expressing solidarity with the Judges in their sit-in (inside their club) in (…)
, by ANTONIUS Rachad, LOTAYEF Ehab
One year ago, Egyptians went to the polls to vote on a constitutional amendment that would allow multiple candidate presidential elections for the first time.
While this amendment was hailed by the Egyptian government and its supporters as the beginning of a new era of democratic reforms, it (…)
, by ABDEL SALAM Mohammad
The success of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt’s parliamentary elections, the crisis faced by the ruling party, the disintegration of the traditional opposition parties, and the unprecedented violence turned the elections into a turbulent operation. Yet this should not conceal the fact that the (…)
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