In(Securing) Each Other
First published as a book chapter in Indivisible: Global Leaders on Shared Security by Interlink on December 6, 2018
How to Survive Between a Rock and A Hard Place: The Experience of Human Rights Organizations in Egypt
First published by here by Dejusticia in April 2018 as part of their book Rising to the Populist Challenge: A Playbook for Human Rights Actors Summary:Over the period from 2014 to 2017, the Egyptian government cracked down in an unprecedented fury on human rights defenders in particular and the civil society in General (including political […]
Egypt Human Rights’ Movement: Repression, Resistance and Co-Optation
First published by the Century Foundation on April 18, 2017 Summary: Since the mid-1980s, the number of Egyptian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) focusing on human rights has grown rapidly. But despite the proliferation of organizations, the human rights movement in Egypt has never been very effective, and is now especially unmoored. This report traces the sources […]
Freedom of Expression in Egypt: How Long Hair, Pink Shirts, Novels, Amateur Videos and Facebook Threaten Public Order and Morality!
First published in the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalysis in September 2016 Abstract: Freedom of expression suffers from a ferocious crackdown in Egypt because of gaping narcissistic injuries to a chauvinist, patriarchal national psyche that has been repackaged in Egypt’s early post colonial years. Decades of cultural and socioeconomic decay has torn Egypt’s stereotypical psyche […]
Politics of Food Aid: From Politicization to Integration
Politics of Food Aid: From Politicization to Integration Introduction: … at the beginning of the [1990s] … aid agencies tried to recruit states for their cause, by the beginning of the next decade they had discovered that states had already co-opted humanitarianism for their interests (Barnett: 172).
