Showing 141–150 of 192 results
31 May 2012
Published by: African Arguments
Egyptians choose between Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and Ahmed Shafik, a military man redolent of the old regime.
29 May 2012
Published by: The Guardian
Another woman told me that girls and women wearing mid-sleeved clothing had been slapped on their bare arms by men on bicycles shouting slurs. Another told me she had been spat on by men telling her to cover up. Another told me that she had her hair up in a pony tail and a young man pulled it so hard that she thought her head was going to fall off. Another recounts how she was pushed and elbowed by a passer-by telling her to cover her nakedness (she was wearing a mid-sleeved blouse and trousers).
28 May 2012
Published by: Routledge Press
The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the oldest and most influential Islamist movements. As the party ascends to power in Egypt, it is poised to adopt a new system of governance and state–society relations, the effects of which are likely to extend well beyond Egypt’s national borders.
24 May 2012
Published by: Open Democracy
In Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood have offered to circumcise women for a nominal fee as part of their community services, a move that threatens to reverse decades of local struggle against the harmful practice argues Mariz Tadros
8 March 2012
Published by: The Guardian
If we are serious about promoting gender justice, we must turn political empowerment upside down.
Promoting greater understanding of how to build an enabling environment for gender empowerment.
25 January 2012
Published by: The Guardian
Things are getting worse rather than better for people who took part in Egypt's revolution last January, and the new government doesn't seem to be a stabilising force.
14 December 2011
Published by: IDS
How do we explain the way in which change unfolded in the wake of the recent Egyptian uprisings? What can this tell us about the success or failure of related development policies?
14 December 2011
Published by: IDS
Mubarak's regime was able to pursue political liberalisation without undermining the status quo through the role played by the State Security Investigations apparatus (SSI) in backstage governance. This article discusses mechanisms through which the SSI exercised public authority through the use of soft and hard power.
7 December 2011
Published by: UNRISD
The question, then, is why political and civil society organizations and institutions have become marginal to the ways through which people engage politically?