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Articles of the author Chibli Mallat
No more presidents-for-life: The nonviolent struggle goes on
Presidential fever is on in Lebanon. The parliament speaker has called for a session on presidential elections for 23 April. This is good for Lebanon and the Middle East. You will find the most peculiar dimension of presidential elections in the (...)

19 - 04 - 2014
President Morsi's last chance
With theNew York Timesreporting on the rise of the risk of a military takeover, Egypt seems destined to enter a further cycle of self-fueling conspiracies and self-fulfilling prophesies. If the military takes over again, it will be a disaster for (...)

11 - 03 - 2013
Another missed opportunity: legal comment and an alternative policy
Text of the Constitutional Declaration, with comments in bold The President of the Republic: The constitutional declaration issued on 22 November 2012 is void starting from today[9 December 2012] and all its consequences remain in effect. Both (...)

10 - 12 - 2012
Reading the Draft Constitution of Egypt: Setbacks in substance, process, and legitimacy
Rather than enshrine the democratic aspirations of the Egyptian revolution, the draft Constitution to be put to referendum in mid Dec. is faulty in execution, lacking in legitimacy and a set-back in terms of rights and liberties Thousands of (...)

02 - 12 - 2012
Syria beyond Geneva
1.No national unity cabinet is possible with any of those who participated in the mass crimes since the nonviolent beginning of the Syrian Revolution in March 2011. 2.The UN-Arab League's envoy Plan (hereinafter Plan) is structurally flawed from its (...)

03 - 07 - 2012
The day after: A constitutional roadmap for Egypt
The Electoral Commission's announcement of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mursi as president elect has staved off a full-scale counter-revolution. How Egyptian political forces build on this is crucial for the whole region Last month Egypt saw the full (...)

25 - 06 - 2012
Saving Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court from itself
On June 14, the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt issued two rulings in two separate chambers: one decision examines the lustration law, dubbed in the media as ‘the law of political exclusion'. It was considered unconstitutional. The second (...)

15 - 06 - 2012
Time to join forces for nonviolent change in Middle East
It is time to join forces for nonviolent change. Iran's freedom is stirring again, and we are humbled by your courage and determination. The Arab Spring would not have taken place without your example in 2009, both in the massive popular (...)

15 - 02 - 2012
Why and How SCAF must fold in Egypt?
In large part because of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) the revolution against Mubarak and the old regime was nonviolent. When on 31 January 2011 its then obscure leaders refused to shoot at unarmed demonstrators at the behest of (...)

22 - 11 - 2011
Libya's revolution: A troubling legacy of violence
One hesitates to congratulate our Libyan colleagues on the success of their Revolution. This is not to dampen the joy - theirs and ours - of getting rid of the longest serving dictator in the world, or to deny the immense sacrifices they have (...)

30 - 08 - 2011
Game Over: revolution's tipping point
The people of Egypt have identified in their revolution a condition sine qua non for the fall of the regime: the forced removal of its head. They were absolutely correct. ‘The people want the fall of the regime' has for a necessary correlate that (...)

06 - 08 - 2011
Obama's spark may be embracing his Muslim heritage
I was, and remain, a supporter of Republican Senator John McCain's presidential bid. During the difficult days of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, McCain was a reliable advocate of human rights as the guiding agenda for policy in Iraq. This commitment (...)

11 - 07 - 2007
Saving Iraq's justice: move Saddam's trial abroad
So Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death. This does not come as a surprise. If one person were to be singled out in the world today for the ultimate sentence, Saddam would be the one. He is personally responsible for the death of about two million (...)

07 - 11 - 2006
From Princeton, a new power paradigm
A new and influential report just released by the Woodrow Wilson School, titled "Forging a World of Liberty Under Law, U.S. National Security in the 21st Century, underlines the one major flaw of the Bush administration's policy since September 11, (...)

10 - 10 - 2006
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