Mohamed ElAgatiThis publication encompasses the different aspects of the laws governing political parties on local, regional and international levels. It coincides with the then-recent reforms regarding the aforementioned laws and features several models of legal regulation from across the world, discusses relevant pieces of international law, provides a criticism of the new laws and includes several policy recommendations and modifications. It commences with Richard Katz’s suggested framework for policy formulation pertaining to the legal regulation of political parties. Domestic law would have to lay out the different requirements, specifications and features a political party would have to fulfill and/or possess…

Mohamed ElAgatiBy Mohamed Elagati (03/04/2013) Working Paper fride In the aftermath of Egypt’s revolution, controversies over foreign funding to Egyptian civil society organisations (CSO) have become even more politicised. This has resulted in the prosecution of a number of international and Egyptian NGO workers. Because CSOs are a critical part of the democratic transition, the Egyptian public needs to engage in a transparent debate over the role of foreign funding. As a part of that process, this paper, based on a series of meetings carried out with local stakeholders in Cairo, examines the framework and the perception of foreign funding…

Mohamed ElAgatiOn the eve of President Mohammed Morsi’s acceptance of the draft constitution, in his speech calling for a referendum on the draft, the Egyptian president limited three democratic pillars whose attainment had been one of the primary goals of the revolution. Those pillars are the judiciary, the media, and civil society. In this context, the government confronted us with a new civil associations and institutions proposal that can be described at the very least as a model for oppressive laws and as a proposal that would reinstate the outcomes of authoritarianism. The advisor in the Ministry for Social Solidarity…