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EGYPT: Egyptian Female Cartoonist Pokes Fun at Fundamentalists
March 29-31, 2013 by MEDEA BENJAMIN
One of the women who spoke at the Women’s Assembly during the World Social Forum in Tunisia was not a political activist, but a cartoonist. Dooa Eladl is 34-year-old Egyptian woman who calls herself a Muslim anarchist. Her work appears in the prominent newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm She has become one of Egypt’s best-known political cartoonists, in a field completely dominated by men. (One of her humorous drawings is a portrait of herself marching to work, her hair tied to the mustaches of four of her male colleagues.)
EGYPT: All Unionized and Nowhere to Go
January 8, 2013
Decree 97 of November 25, 2012 went virtually unnoticed in the political upheaval following President Morsi’s November 22 constitutional declaration which granted him almost dictatorial powers. Decree 97 amended the law regulating trade unions and removed all office holders of the state-sponsored Egyptian Federation of Trade Unions (ETUF) over 60 years old. They are to be replaced by candidates who received the second-largest vote tally in the 2006 national union elections—widely considered exceptionally corrupt. In August 2011, the Ministry of Manpower and Immigration certified their invalidation and dissolved the ETUF’s executive board. Read the rest of this entry
Egypt in Light of the Iranian Revolution
December 31, 2012
The Restoration of a Dictatorship?
The new constitution submitted to referendum by Mohamed Morsi, the president of Egypt elected with the support of the Freedom and Justice party, i.e. the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, in addition to its properties of attacking working-class achievements as well as women’s and minorities’ rights, is preparing the legal ground for the Brotherhood to seize the whole political power in the country. The powers proposed for the president in the constitution, not subject to any supervision, are leading Egypt toward dictatorship. Read the rest of this entry
EGYPT: Say “Yes” to the Revolution
Dec 21 2012 by Mohamad Adam
Dear Mom and Dad,
I hear you are going to vote “yes” on the draft constitution. But because I know you well, and I know you only stand up for what is right, I would like to tell you a short story and make a small request. Read the rest of this entry
EGYPT: Egyptian anarchists speak
The following statement was released by Comrades from Cairo Egyptian anarchists) on October 30, 2012. Read the rest of this entry
Brothers in the Hood: Egypt’s Soft Powers and the Arab World
10 Dec 2012 by Amro Ali
A Jordanian Islamist recently expressed his disappointment: “Egyptians are not giving President Mohammed Morsi a chance!” I responded, “Would you be this forgiving had Hamdeen Sabahi, a secular Nasserist, issued a decree that gave himself exceptional powers?” Silence. Irrespective of Morsi “rescinding” those powers, the continuing theatrics matters to a larger, if at times unacknowledged, constituency. Read the rest of this entry
EGYPT: Mahalla workers rise up against Mursi’s constitutional decree
29 Nov 2012 by Hisham Fouad from Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists
Once again the 20,000 workers at Misr Spinning in Mahalla have taken the lead in challenging the Egyptian regime. They have rejected president Mohamed Mursi’s constitutional amendments and the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood. Read the rest of this entry
EGYPT: Things are getting weird in Egypt
An odd alliance between pro-democracy activists and Mubarak loyalists is raising eyebrows. Who is playing who? Read the rest of this entry
JORDAN: Cash Crisis, Arab Ferment Threaten Jordan’s Stability
