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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?
1 November 2011
The Global Dialogue on Freedom and Wellbeing was held in Cairo on 3 October 2011.
13 October 2011
Published by: Middle East Research and Information Project
How it all started is hotly debated. At a press conference on October 12, representatives of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Egypt’s de facto ruling authority since Mubarak’s ouster, insisted that the army did not attack first or even engage the demonstrators.
1 October 2011
Published by: Pathways of Women's Empowerment
In this Pathways Policy Paper, the author uses examples from Pathways research on Conditional Cash Transfers in Egypt, and experiences from Brazil to demonstrate the effectiveness of a feminist approach to social protection in meeting women's needs.
This project is part of the Gender, Power and Sexuality Programme, funded by Sida. The project is working on two parallel initiatives, firstly, exploring political empowerment programmes for women and secondly, engaging with the international community to challenge and expose gendered forms of violence, particularly when this is politically motivated.
21 June 2011
Published by: Wiley
This article experiments with a new approach which focuses on sectors and on relationships between policy-makers and investors, and shows how their common interest helped to overcome obstacles to investment and growth in Egypt.
5 February 2011
Published by: The Guardian
The west failed to 'see like citizens' and missed the signs that people in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen were at breaking point.
1 January 2011
Published by: Middle East Research and Information Project
Many were also quick to claim decisively that al-Qaeda was behind the attack.