Prior to joining the CMES AM program, Mariam Ghanem worked as a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. There, her research focused on political activism and economic development in Egypt, the relationship between state institutions and religious institutions, Iranian political culture, and gender and sexuality in Islam. Mariam’s research interests include the...
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, 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
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