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Omar Samir KhalafEgypt ,Jordan ,Lebanon ,Morocco ,TunisiaMohammed El-Agati, Mina Samir Gabi, Omar Samir Khalaf, Shimaa El-Sharkawy, Yasmin Ayman. The book consists of five-chapters, published by the Arab Forum for Alternatives in 2019. After nearly nine years of Arab mobility, attempting to analyze the five political development crises (identity crisis, participation crisis, distribution crisis, penetration crisis, and crisis of legitimacy) and its impact on The Arab Spring affected by it, because the Arab Spring has raised questions related to these crises in different formats. The first chapter written by Mohammed Al-Agati deals with the crisis of identity as a complex concept,…

The Emergence of the ‘New Right’ in Europe and its views on the main Arab issues

14 July، 2019emad oufPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Gennaro GervasioEgypt ,Jordan ,Lebanon ,Morocco ,Tunisia After the defeat of the Nazi-fascist powers in World War II, a first ‘wave’ of Far-Right movements emerged in Europe -as well as elsewhere- in the ‘long 1960s’ and especially in the 1970s’ as a challenge to both the ‘New Cold War Order’ and to the emergence of the Revolutionary Leftist Movements. In his provocative book Where Have All the Fascists Gone?1, Canadian scholar Tamir Bar-On retraces the trajectory of the European New Right (ENR) from its post-WW2 formative years, to the most important developments in the subsequent decades. Bar-On aptly identifies the turning…

Women and Citizenship: The role of women’s organizations in supporting women’s rights

18 May، 2019emad oufPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Rania ZadaEgypt Rania Zada Egyptian women participated strongly in the Egyptian revolution, yet their status in decision-making did not improve, actually, women suffer from marginalization on all levels. The representation of women in the People’s Assembly after the revolution decreased from 12% to 2%. The question is why, although women in Egypt participate in civil societies and have roles in non-governmental institutions; they rarely get the opportunity to implant their influence in politics. Women’s representation in elected assemblies at the local and national levels remains unsatisfactory even if on January 18, 2014, Egypt adopted a ‘new’ constitution. Article 11 could be…

Religious institutions Reform in Yemen

4 April، 2019emad oufPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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YemenBaligh Al Mekhlafi This paper is part of a project that aimed at introducing a vision on institutions reform in the Arab region that tackled media, judiciary and religious institutions in three countries Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen. The paper’s focus is identifying the core problems in religious institutions in Yemen and approaching recommendations to tackle these problems. Religious institutions in Yemen are entitled to run the religious issues such as Endowments, Fatwa, houses of worship as well as religious guidance and in the framework of these aspects, the activities undertaken by these institutions vary from solely religious roles to social…

Local elections in Tunisia: Reorder of the political scene:

4 April، 2019emad oufPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Nissaf BrahimTunisiaNissaf Brahmi The local elections in Tunisia, which began on April 29 for security and military personnel – which is a precedent in the country – and on 6th May 2018 for the general civilian voters is the first municipal elections since the 2011 revolution, and the first free and fair local elections in the country’s history. Despite a low turnout of 35.6 percent (compared to the 69 percent turnout in the 2014 legislative elections), the results of Tunisia’s May 6 municipal elections were positive overall. Women were elected to represent 47 percent of the municipal council seats, youth under 35 years old won 37.57…

Politics… and Beware Of It.. The Lebanese Parliamentary Elections, 2018: The Reproduction of the Ruling Class and the Conflict between Alternatives

4 April، 2019emad oufPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Mona KhneisserLebanonThis paper is a case study about the 2018 Lebanese Parliamentary elections, and it is written by researcher Mona Khneiser the researcher at AFA as an edition of the follow up papers that the Forum publish regularly. This paper examines the success or failure of the recent Lebanese Parliamentary elections, which took place under a new electoral law, in making a real change at the level of the ruling political elite. This paper highlights the experience of civic initiatives that have contested the traditional power parties through elections, and examines the results of the elections based on the success or…

Synopsis of the book “Protest Movements in the Arab World” (Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Bahrain, Algeria, Syria and Jordan)

4 April، 2019emad oufPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Algeria ,Egypt ,Iraq ,Jordan ,Lebanon ,Morocco ,Tunisia ,YemenSynopsis of the book “Protest Movements in the Arab World” (Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Bahrain, Algeria, Syria and Jordan) This book is a collaborative work written by: Tamer Kharma, Fares Ashti, Rabei Wahba, Lutfi Boumghar, Salama Kila, Mohammad Alagati, Abdelrahim Manar Alsolaimi, Nuran Sayed Ahmad, Amri Al Shobki, Heba Raouf Ezzat. And Edited by Amro Al Shobki. This book is about seven case studies from various Arab countries based on the protests that raged in the Arab world since 2011. The aim of the cases is trying to understand the historical, subjective, political, economic…

Paper: Iraqi parliamentary elections: Iraqis from seeking survival to the search for life

4 April، 2019emad oufPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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IraqBy Tariq Qutb The general framework of the paper: This analytical paper of the Iraqi electoral scene in 2018 under the announcement of the Iraqi government success in liberating the territory of Iraq from ISIS, after more than three years of control over some of the the most important areas and cities of Iraq such as Mosul, Kirkuk, Anbar and Diyala. Also the success Iraq, a short while ago, and hard to overcome the crisis of the referendum of secession in the Kurdistan region, was associated with these developments increased political role of the militias and the popular crowd in…

Paper on: Brazil’s presidential elections … The right expands at the expense of the left

23 November، 2018emad oufPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Tawfiq Abdel SadeqAbstract: The paper aims to highlight the context of the right-wing access to power in Brazil, after years of left-wing Labor rule, and the subsequent arrival of other left-wing parties to power in other South American countries (Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina and Uruguay…). To examine the possible political and developmental implications of this new rise of the extreme right described in the extreme of the future of the emerging country of Brazil, and the prospects for the continuation of the rule of democracy and the peaceful transfer of power in the country and perhaps the region as a whole.

Alternatives’ Papers, Fifth Issue (January 2018)

13 March، 2018أيمن عبد المعطيPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Adriana RuizRestrepo ,Caroline Barbary ,Mina Samir ,Mohamed ElAgati ,Yasmin Ayman This issue Follow-ups The Forgotten Yemen: the role of international community in Yemen. 1 Yasmin Ayman Issues Availability of information and National Security 13 Topic of the Issue (Citizenship right between politics and violence): Citizenship challenges and its effect on minorities in the Arab region. 18 Mohamed El Agati Targeting Christians in Sinai … targeting upon identity or part of a broader strategy. 25 Mina Samir Another youth “Coptic youth” in the Egyptian revolution: politicization and engagement through Maspero Youth Union … Reading a study of…