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Amr Hamzawy is a distinguished Egyptian political scientist and is president of the Egypt Freedom party, or Masr Elhureyya. He was elected to the People’s Assembly of Egypt in the first parliamentary elections after the January 25 revolution. He is currently a professor in the Public Policy and Administration Department at the American University in Cairo, a professor of political science at Cairo University, and a member of the National Council of Human Rights in Egypt. Hamzawy previously taught at the Free University of Berlin, from which he received his Ph.D. His most recent book, Getting to Pluralism – Political Actors in the Arab World, co-edited with Marina Ottaway, was published in 2009. Hamzawy regularly contributes articles to academic journals and writes a daily column for the Egyptian independent daily newspaper al-Watan.
1. The current state apparatus is intent on using force to disperse sit-ins—protests that are a direct response to a genuine political crisis. Blood has been spilled; victims are being shot down. Political solutions have been willfully ignored, and so has the fact that efforts to bring about such solutions are absolutely critical, regardless of what difficulties or obstacles may stand in the way.
Egypt after June 30: Violence in Speech, Politics, & Institutions
The current wave of violence in Egypt, which began in the wake of June 30, 2013, is unlike any other the Egyptian public has witnessed since the January 25 revolution of 2011. Both verbal and political forms of violence are driving Egypt’s state and society toward a dangerous precipice—and to a total departure from the path to democratic transformation.
