This Opinion was originally posted on Freedom House’s “Freedom at Issue” blog on June 21, 2012.
Originally posted October 2010
This second edition of the MEI Viewpoints series on Higher Education and the Middle East focuses on Empowering Under-served and Vulnerable Populations.
This Opinion first appeared in Foreign Policy on May 30, 2012
The massacre in al-Houla, where Syrian military forces and allied militiamen massacred more than 100 civilians in cold blood, leaves no doubt about the intentions of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime: survival at any cost and through any means. Assad does not have a Plan B.
The cacophony of bullhorns, fireworks and frenzied cross-country barnstorming in trucks, busses and three-wheeled “tuk-tuks” emblazoned with candidates’ posters has come to an end, and a historic moment has arrived: tens of millions of Egyptians are heading to the polls today in the first democratic presidential election in the country’s history, an election borne out of the 2011 revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak and injected Egyptians with a novel feeling of excitement for participatory democracy.
This Opnion first appeared in the Huffington Post on May 11, 2012.
MEI Podcast,The Consequences of Syria for Minorities in the Levant, 9 May, 2012
MEI Podcast,The Consequences of Syria for Minorities in the Levant, 9 May, 2012
MEI Podcast,The Consequences of Syria for Minorities in the Levant, 9 May, 2012
MEI Podcast,The Consequences of Syria for Minorities in the Levant, 9 May, 2012
Originally posted February 2011
Dr. Makram-Ebeid, along with ten other liberal and leftists members, recently resigned from Egypt's Constituent Assembly in protest over its Islamist majority, leaving only five women and five Christians remaining in the assembly. With the transition process in turmoil, a diverse coalition of Egyptian generals, liberals, bureaucrats, and judges are turning to the courts to attempt to diversify the composition of the Constituent Assembly, which is currently almost entirely dominated by Islamists – both Salafists and members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
MEI Podcast, 1 May, 2012, Egypt’s Troubled Transition, Dr. Mona Makram-Ebeid
MEI Podcast, 1 May, 2012, Egypt’s Troubled Transition, Dr. Mona Makram-Ebeid
MEI Podcast, 1 May, 2012, Egypt’s Troubled Transition, Dr. Mona Makram-Ebeid
MEI Podcast, 1 May, 2012, Egypt’s Troubled Transition, Dr. Mona Makram-Ebeid