Criticism of the Proposed IMF Loan to Egypt, reprise
Civil society groups in Egypt have released a letter addressed simultaneously to Hisham Qindil, Egypt’s prime minister, and Christina La Garde, executive director of the International Monetary Fund...
View ArticlePlaying a Losing Game of Chicken in Egypt
The problem in Egypt is that there is a giant ultimatum game going on, with the opposition threatening to deny the legitimacy of the constitution by walking out and convincing the SCC to invalidate the...
View Article“We the People of Egypt. . .”
The preamble to the United States Constitution reads as follows: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for...
View ArticleDostour Party, Ottawa Chapter Roundtable on the Egyptian Constitutional...
On December 8, 2012, the Ottawa Chapter of the Egyptian Dostour (Constitution) Party organized a roundtable at Carleton University. Paul Sedra, May Telmessany, and I were the featured speakers,...
View ArticleMorsi’s First Six Months — An Appraisal (Part I)
I have just published a post on the first six months of Morsi’s administration, at the valuable blog, rebeleeconomy.com, on the invitation of its founder, Farah Halime. This is part I of the essay....
View ArticleLipset’s Law, Egypt and Democratic Transition
One of the most basic reasons why my judgment on events in Egypt during its post-Mubarak transition differs from that of others is my relative pessimism on what can be achieved in the short-term, other...
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Egypt and Turkey: the View from the Equity Markets
Some Egyptians seem to think that the Erdogan’s government opposition to the July coup against Morsi is rooted in a fear that the Egpytian anti-MB revolution/coup represented an “existential threat”...
View ArticleEgypt’s New Protest Law
The “revolutionary” government — headed by the interim President, Adly Mansur, previously president of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court, otherwise known as a bastion for liberal and democratic...
View ArticleComparing the June 30 Protest Law with the Morsi Government’s Proposed...
Here is a link to a memo providing a detailed, article by article comparison between the law promulgated by the June 30 government and that proposed by the Morsi government. Share Tweet
View ArticleProspects for Democratization in the Arab World in Light of the Exclusion of...
The latest issue of al-Ruwaq al-`Arabi, a journal published by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, is dedicated to the question of the future of the Muslim Brotherhood. The entire issue (in...
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