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1 July 2013
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.
26 June 2013
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.
7 June 2013
Published by: IDS
Policy Brief 2 emerging from the ESRC- DfID funded project "Agency and Governance in the Context of Civil Conflict"
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
This seminar focuses on what stability is, and what interventions have supported stability in four communities in Afghanistan and Nepal. This is a unique in-depth village level assessment of how populations conceive of stability and stabilisation and thus presents a challenge to existing analysis and research about how to foster stability in contexts in extreme tension and often violent conflict.
15 May 2013
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.
31 January 2013
Published by: Open Democracy
The eruption of protests, violence and civil disobedience in Egypt this month is a replay of the scene in 2011 before the status quo was ruptured, but the current regime’s attacks on women and religious minorities in order to quell opposition is more pervasive than anything seen before, argues Mariz Tadros.
8 January 2013
Published by: Open Democracy
Fears that Egypt’s constitution will be used to inhibit freedoms and enhance the powers of the Islamists in power have already proven to be well founded. The new constitution makes the entire governance system subject to the strictures of Islamic jurisprudence, argues Mariz Tadros.
1 January 2013
Published by: Deutsche Orient-Stiftung / German Orient-Foundation
This article argues that the Muslim Brotherhood's growing monopolization of political power in Egypt witnessed since the parliamentary and presidential elections does not only suggest a shift towards authoritarianism but a particular brand of Islamist totalitarianism.
8 December 2012
Published by: Open Democracy
How do we explain the escalation of violence in Egypt? Mariz Tadros argues that the government in place is displaying particular characteristics of totalitarianism specific to fascist regimes.
26 November 2012
Published by: Open Democracy
President Morsi’s latest constitutional declaration, even if it is cloaked in democratic and revolutionary rhetoric, presages a slide to authoritarianism, argues Mariz Tadros.