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How the internet is challenging Egypt’s government

Although the general strikes of April 6 and May 4 drew limited public participation, they have revealed an important new political phenomenon in Egypt: political mobilization by young, second-generation internet users via blogs, YouTube, and Facebook...

What is at Stake in Kuwait’s Parliamentary Elections?

Despite recent electoral reform, Kuwait’s parliamentary election on May 17 will produce little change and continue to foster a parliament more adept at blocking the ruling family than initiating positive change, argues Middle East expert Nathan Brown..

Why Don’t the Benefits of Growth Trickle Down?

Recent labor protests and bread lines in Egypt—in which the army was called in to organize distribution and restore order—present a stark contrast to the Egyptian government’s narrative of impressive economic growth, which international financial institutions have validated..

Egypt: Second Generation Internet Users and Political Change

Although the general strikes on April 6 and May 4 have drawn limited public participation, they have revealed an important new political phenomenon in Egypt: political mobilization by young, second generation internet users via blogs, YouTube, and Facebook...

Egypt’s Local Elections Farce: Causes and Consequences

The Egyptian government’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in advance of the April 8 local elections was motivated by its determination to exclude the Brotherhood from the 2011 presidential election and is likely to persist until the matter of presidential succession is settled, argue two Carnegie experts...

Egypt’s Local Elections Farce

Egypt’s local elections of April 8, 2008 were a confirmation of a backward slide in Egyptian politics. They were plagued by social unrest and political discord. In the weeks prior to the elections, labor protests escalated, precipitating a harsh crackdown that resulted in at least two fatalities and many injuries. The country’s largest opposition force, the Muslim Brotherhood, decided at the last minute to boycott the elections. Voter turnout did not exceed 5 percent and the ruling Nat..

Egypt: Local Elections…the End of the Democratic Spring

The local elections to be held on April 8 confirm the continuing authoritarian hegemony overpolitical life in Egypt, despite talk of new thinking and democratic transformation. The National Democratic Party (NDP) has insisted on monopolizing the electoral process by excluding other political forces’ candidates, whether those of the (outlawed) Muslim Brotherhood or of the legal opposition parties...

The Draft Party Platform of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood:

The production of a political platform by Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is a sign that real developments—some encouraging, some worrying—are occurring in Egyptian politics...

The Draft Party Platform of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood

In the late summer 2007, amid great anticipation from Egypt’s ruling elite and opposition movements, the Muslim Brotherhood distributed the first draft of a party platform to a group of intellectuals and analysts...

What America Must Do

America’s relationship with the world is in disrepair. Anger, resentment, and fear have replaced the respect the United States once enjoyed. Foreign Policy magazine asked a group of the world’s leading thinkers (including two Carnegie experts) to answer one question: What single policy or gesture can the next president of the United States make to improve America’s standing in the world?..

Press Release: Top-Down Political Reform in Arab World Prolongs Stagnation

Despite passing considerable economic and social reforms Arab regimes continue to avoid substantive political reforms that would jeopardize their own power..

King’s Dilemma in the Arab World

King’s Dilemma” in the Arab World..

Effect of Corruption on Tax Revenues in the Middle East

Governments in the Middle East should implement anti-corruption reforms in order to raise tax revenues and maximize social welfare, according to Patrick Imam and Davina Jacobs in “Effect of Corruption on Tax Revenues in the Middle East” (International Monetary Fund Working Paper no. 07/270, November 2007)...

The New Protest Movements in Egypt: Has the Country Lost Patience?, Ahmad Baha’eddin Shaaban

In Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun (The Muslim Brothers), Khalil al-Anani analyzes the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s intellectual, social, and political discourses, the evolution of its relationships with society and the ruling establishment, and its stances on various social and political issues (Cairo: Dar El-Shorouk, December 2007)...

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Arrests; Torturers Punished; Other Developments

An Egyptian court sentenced three police officers to seven years and a fourth officer to three years in prison on November 28 for beating a man to death during interrogation. Under Egyptian law, the sentence for torturing a prisoner ranges between three and fifteen years in prison. Earlier this month, two police officers were sentenced to three years in prison for sexually assaulting a man at a police station. Click here for more information. ..

Arab Reform Bulletin: December 2007

The six candidates often cited as most likely to win their parties’ nomination (Senators Clinton, Edwards, and Obama on the Democratic side; Senator McCain, Mayor Giuliani, and Governor Romney on the Republican) have expressed common themes on the subject of democracy promotion in the Middle East. For example they all say (as does the Bush administration) that if Arabs are provided with an opportunity to process their grievances through democratic institutions, there will be less terro..

Incumbent Regimes and the “King’s Dilemma” in the Arab World: Promise and Threat of Managed Reform

Despite passing considerable economic and social reforms Arab regimes continue to avoid substantive political reforms that would jeopardize their own power. Reformers in ruling establishments recognize the need for change to increase economic competitiveness, but the preferred process of “managed reform” is leading to further political stagnation, says a new paper from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...

What the Muslim Brotherhood’s Platform Means

Mohammed Herzallah and Amr Hamzawy, in an article in the Daily Star, call the Muslim Brotherhood’s new platform a step forward, “making major strides toward a comprehensive public policy program espousing freedom of expression and pluralistic politics - ideals that were previously immaterial to Islamist discourse in Egypt.” They argue that changes in the Brotherhood “in the hopes of becoming legitimate political actors resembles the kind of raw and authentic progress that has been larg..

Tunisia: Inside Bin Ali’s ’Republic of Tomorrow’

In November 2007 Tunisia’s second president will celebrate twenty years at the helm. As the architect of this Maghribi state’s so-called ‘change’ and ‘renewal’ (‘changement’ and ‘renouveau’), ..

Egypt: Regression in the Muslim Brotherhood’s Party Platform?

The Muslim Brotherhood’s draft party platform sends mixed signals about the movement’s political views and positions. Although it has already been widely circulated, the document does not yet have final approval from the movement’s guidance bureau...