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28 August 2013
Published by: IDS
This briefing considers the impact of the diplomatic rift between Egypt and Ethiopia in the Nile Basin on broader development in the region and the possible diplomatic and developmental scenarios that could emerge as construction of the GERD dam progresses.
15 August 2013
Published by: Open Democracy
In reprisal for the assault on the protestors, pro-Morsi factions have literally set the country on fire.
12 August 2013
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.”
2 August 2013
Published by: IDS
This work on collective action in the face of gender-based violence seeks to understand the extent to which GBV can become a community issue that engages men in challenging and confronting violent and abusive behaviour towards women.
22 July 2013
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.
11 July 2013
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).
5 July 2013
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.
4 July 2013
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.
1 July 2013
Published by: IDS
Policy Brief 3 emerging from the ESRC- DfID funded project "Agency and Governance in the Context of Civil Conflict"
1 July 2013
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.