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The Ultras Ahlawy Football, Violence, and the Quest for Justice

2017 Civil Society Egypt Human Rights Karim Medhat Ennarah Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Century Foundation

April 11, 2017 03:34 am

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Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): Karim Medhat Ennarah Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/the-ultras-ahlawy/ Snapshot: The “Ultra” fans of Egyptian football emerged from the world of sport in 2011 to play an important role in the revolution. Then, in Port Said in February 2012, tragedy struck: seventy-two football fans were killed in a melee and stampede. The flawed

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Egypt’s Resilient and Evolving Social Activism

2017 Amr Hamzawy Carnegie Civil Society Democracy and Politics Paper

April 05, 2017 05:52 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Hamzawy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/04/05/egypt-s-resilient-and-evolving-social-activism-pub-68578 Snapshot: With the decline of party politics in Egypt, social activism is becoming increasingly relevant in the fight against the government’s new authoritarian policies and tactics. While Egypt’s ruling generals have developed a...

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Legislating Authoritarianism: Egypt’s New Era of Repression

2017 Amr Hamzawy Carnegie Civil Society Democracy and Politics Judicial Affairs Paper

March 16, 2017 05:52 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Hamzawy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/03/16/legislating-authoritarianism-egypt-s-new-era-of-repression-pub-68285 Snapshot: Egypt’s new authoritarian regime is rapidly closing the public space—cracking down on autonomous civil society and independent political parties, asphyxiating the practice of pluralist politics, and thwarting...

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New Neighborhood Power Informal Popular Committees and Changing Local Governance in Egypt

2017 Civil Society Clija Harders Democracy and Politics Dina Wahab Egypt Paper The Century Foundation

February 14, 2017 03:34 am

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Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): Clija Harders, Dina Wahab Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/new-neighborhood-power/ Snapshot: After the uprising of 2011, new forms of political participation emerged, among them the popular committees (lijan sha’abiyah). Initially convened mainly to ensure security at the neighborhood level, the committees came to life after the withdrawal...

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Blocking the Defenders: Egypt’s Closure of El Nadeem

2017 Civil Society Human Rights Magda Adly Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

February 11, 2017 05:52 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Magda Adly Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/blocking-the-defenders-egypts-closure-of-el-nadeem/ At 11 a.m. on the morning of February 9, 2017, two doctors from the Free Treatment Department of the Ministry of Health, accompanied by about 50 policemen, headed toward the El Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of the...

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Bricks in the Wall: El Nadeem, the NGO Law, and Egypt’s Crackdown

2017 Civil Society Human Rights Hussein Baoumi Judicial Affairs Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

February 10, 2017 05:52 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Hussein Baoumi Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/bricks-in-the-wall-el-nadeem-the-ngo-law-and-egypts-crackdown/ Yesterday, the El Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture was closed by Egyptian security forces, following a crackdown on most of that country’s public sphere that Human Rights Watch and others...

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The Attack on Civil Society Outside Cairo

2017 Amy Austin Holmes Carnegie Civil Society Egypt Paper

January 26, 2017 03:34 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amy Austin Holmes Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/67810 Civil society in Egypt is undergoing an unprecedented wave of repression. The government is not only targeting NGOs that have played a vital role in documenting human rights violations. It appears the state is attempting to silence or subdue virtually the entire spectrum of civil

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New NGO Legislation Takes Egypt Down a Dangerous Path

2016 Amr Hamzawy Carnegie Civil Society Egypt Judicial Affairs Paper

December 06, 2016 03:34 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Hamzawy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/12/06/new-ngo-legislation-takes-egypt-down-dangerous-path-pub-66379 Last week, an overwhelming majority of the Egyptian parliament passed repressive legislation regulating nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), with virtually no debate. The vote once again emphasizes how the rubber-stamp role of...

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Report: Rethinking U.S. Economic Aid to Egypt

2016 Amy Hawthorne Civil Society Democracy and Politics Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Human Rights Military Affairs Paper Pomed Security and Counter-Terrorism

October 30, 2016 03:33 am

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Source: Pomed – Project On Middle East Democracy Author(s): Amy Hawthorne Original Link: http://pomed.org/pomed-publications/new-report-rethinking-u-s-economic-aid-to-egypt/ In a new POMED Report, Rethinking U.S. Economic Aid to Egypt, POMED Deputy Director for Research Amy Hawthorne takes a detailed look at U.S. bilateral economic aid for Egypt. Since the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty...

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Egypt’s Attack on Civil Society

2016 Bahey Eldin Hassan Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Civil Society Democracy and Politics Paper

October 14, 2016 05:52 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Bahey Eldin Hassan Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=19218&lang=en Compared with some of my fellow Egyptians, I have been lucky. I have received only death threats. Some of my countrymen and women have lost their lives in the struggle for freedom and dignity. My first death threat came 25 years

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The Limits of Fighting Corruption in Egypt

2016 Carnegie Civil Society Egypt Mohamed Abdel Salam Paper

October 13, 2016 03:34 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Mohamed Abdel Salam Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/64852 Hisham Geneina, the former head of the Central Auditing Organization (CAO), Egypt’s main oversight body, is still facing the repercussions of the controversial statement he made at the end of 2015 that corruption had cost Egypt nearly 600 billion Egyptian pounds ($76 billion). Even...

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The Shrinking Independence of Egypt’s Labor Unions

2016 Carnegie Civil Society Paper Unknown

September 20, 2016 05:52 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Giuseppe Acconcia Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/64634 President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is turning against the unions that have helped put him in power. The state has set its sights on the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (Al-Ittihad al-Masri lil-Naqabat al-Mustaqilla, EFITU), which operates as a large umbrella of...

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