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Articles of the author Bahey el din Hassan
Why Tunisia succeeds while Egypt fails
I traveled to Tunisia over a week ago to attend the country‘s first free elections. As I left Cairo, I had given in to a sense that Egypt had lost its way, a feeling that has become widely shared in this country. I returned to find Egyptians even (...)

02 - 11 - 2011
Tunisian exceptions
After the ouster of former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, I spoke to a Tunisian friend who had just returned home after two decades in exile. Elated by the events that had transpired in his country over the past few weeks, Kamal (...)

24 - 01 - 2011
Copts'' new birth
Last month's attack on a church in Alexandria may mark a new dawn for Coptic activism in Egypt. After suffering attacks at the hands of religious extremists for two decades, this latest event has pitted Egypt's Coptic community against the state and (...)

17 - 01 - 2011
Say hello to radicalism…!
The running joke in Egypt these days--about the doctors who congratulate themselves on a successful operation, even though the patient died--isn't new, but the parliamentary elections have given it a new twist. A review of election day events (...)

05 - 12 - 2010
The 4 battles of election day
Parliamentary elections are taking place in Egypt today, 28 November, amid widespread public indifference. Enthusiasm for elections has been low since the 1952 revolution, but the apathy level this year is exceptional because authorities have (...)

28 - 11 - 2010
Egypt''s electoral commission: Who''s running the show?
The High Elections Commission is an independent, neutral body capable of performing its functions, according to Egyptian government officials and high ranking members of the National Democratic Party (NDP). An analysis of the commission's actual (...)

25 - 11 - 2010
Can election monitors fulfill their task?
Human rights organizations that will monitor the Egyptian parliamentary elections next week face several major setbacks. While the threat of violence is perhaps the most obvious one, others are less visible but just as severe. The first setback is (...)

22 - 11 - 2010
NDP candidate list exposes internal rifts
The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) announced last week that it will field 780 candidates for 508 seats in November's parliamentary elections. The announcement--which came on the deadline for parties to submit their candidate lists to the (...)

15 - 11 - 2010
A change in America''s Egypt policy?
US President Barack Obama's choice of Cairo as the place to give his historic speech to the Islamic world in June 2009 did the Egyptian regime a major political favor. In return, Egypt's state-run media cast the speech in a favorable light, as if it (...)

08 - 11 - 2010
Elections 2010: What''s new?
Just two months ahead of parliamentary elections in Egypt, a foreign visitor might have reasonably concluded from a perusal of the Egyptian independent and opposition press that the elections scheduled for 28 November are not for the parliament, but (...)

31 - 10 - 2010
Egypt''s human rights abuses: systematic not arbitrary
The exceptional penetration of the Egypt's security apparatus into the state administration is one of the most significant outcomes of the 1952 revolution. Egypt's transformation from a monarchy to a republic after the revolution was accompanied by (...)

24 - 07 - 2010
Revolution Day: Celebrating 58 years of authoritarian rule
For several decades, Egypt has lived under an authoritarian political regime whose roots date back to the 1952 revolution, when a group of army officers--who came to be called the Free Officers--overthrew the quasi-liberal monarchy that had ruled (...)

23 - 07 - 2010
Views: What a sacred mission!
While I was on a short business trip to Geneva, I rediscovered Egypt's elevated status as the common subject of every official or side conversation at the headquarters of the United Nations' human rights (HR) bodies. This had nothing to do with (...)

03 - 01 - 2008
Across the Mediterranean
Tensions between north and south relative to religion and society need to be resolved in dialogue, though it must be unbiased to work, writes Bahey El-Din Hassan* The nature of the relations between religions and societies has for long constituted a (...)

14 - 09 - 2006
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