podcast for Egypt After the Elections, recorded on the 28th of June, 2012
podcast for Egypt After the Elections, recorded on the 28th of June, 2012
podcast for Egypt After the Elections, recorded on the 28th of June, 2012
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.
Turkey’s popular and outspoken Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was treated to a hero’s welcome last week when he met with Syrian refugees for the first time since Turkey opened its doors to the thousands of people fleeing Bashar Al-Assad’s crackdown. Erdogan’s pledge to defend the rights of the Syrian people and his call for Assad’s removal, however, fell short of expectations. Although Erdogan’s speech drew some applause, it was also interrupted by shouts of “We want arms for the Free Syrian Army and a buffer zone inside Syria!” The Turkish PM’s reiteration of his previous positi
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.
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
MEI Podcast, 1 May, 2012, Egypt’s Troubled Transition, Dr. Mona Makram-Ebeid