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The Backlash after the Demise: The Brothers and the Copts

Published by: Georgetown University

On an Islamist-affiliated channel, program guest Shaykh Mahmoud Shaaban, a Salafist, concocted a story that Christians had congregated in Tahrir Square and that their main chant was “Jesus is the solution,” as if Christians were countering the Muslim Brotherhood slogan, “Islam is the solution.”

Egypt: growing anger with western opinion

Published by: Open Democracy

The initial response of policy-makers, the media and analysts, to the events in Egypt and their aftermath, has galvanized large sections of the population to take a strong stance against those who work in policy influencing spaces in the west.

Battling with Increased Gender-Based Violence in Egypt’s Transition: Report on the Scoping Workshop held in Cairo, November 2012

Published by: IDS

This report is about a scoping workshop held by the Institute of Development Studies in collaboration with the Centre for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA).

Opportunities and pitfalls in Egypt’s roadmap

Published by: Open Democracy

The only way to safeguard against the emergence of another dictatorship in Egypt is a political settlement that is premised on an inclusive rather than majoritarian political order.

Egypt: the politics of sexual violence in protest spaces

Published by: Open Democracy

There was a new wave of sexual assault against women in Tahrir Square last week, but women refused to let the assaults on their bodies silence their voices. These attacks were commensurate with the pattern of politically motivated sexual violence that emerged, and grew, under the Muslim Brotherhood’s reign, argues Mariz Tadros.

Copts Under Mursi: Defiance in the Face of Denial

Published by: Middle East Report

It happens more often that tiffs over mundane matters blow up into violent and overtly sectarian confrontations. Most such instances involve assaults by Muslims upon Christians. And the disputes are fiercer and prolonged. The most dramatic example is the April 7 attack on the Coptic Orthodox cathedral in the 'Abbasiyya district of Cairo -- dramatic because the cathedral is the papal seat, a place which had previously been sacrosanct.

J’accuse the West

Published by: Open Democracy

There is a perception among the non-Islamist political movements and civil society that there is a western conspiracy against the Egyptian people in support of the Muslim Brotherhood’s totalitarian regime, it is now time to switch sides before it is too late, argues Mariz Tadros.

Ripping Bodies Apart: The Brotherhood’s Sectarian Policies in Practice

Published by: Open Democracy

The lynching of four Egyptian Shi’a citizens by mobs is raising alarm bells with regard to the potentially tragic consequences of Islamist endorsement of sectarian policies, which threaten not only to rip the country apart but the region as well.

Politically Motivated Sexual Assault and the Law in Violent Transitions: A Case Study from Egypt

Published by: IDS

This case study is about the use of sexual violence against women and men in order to deter the opposition from engaging in protests and demonstrations in a context of a country in transition, Egypt.

Copts at the Crossroads – The Challenge of Building Inclusive Democracy in Egypt

In the light of the escalation of sectarian tensions during and after Mubarak's reign, the predicament of the Arab world's largest religious minority, the Copts, has come to the forefront.