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Egypt
Scholarly Publications
Egypt’s Consolidated Authoritarianism
March 2020
The current Egyptian political scene reveals an important paradox: since its ascendancy to power in 2013, the military-led authoritarian government has not faced significant challenges from civil...
The Copts, the Nation, and the Revolution
July 2013
This paper addresses the position of Copts in Egypt during the transition period in 2013.
Other Publications
Reforming the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Post-Revolutionary Egypt and Tunisia
April 2014
Ongoing upheaval in Egypt and Tunisia since the 2011 revolutions indicates high levels of dissatisfaction with the political order, and expresses a deep desire for a drastic remodeling of the...
Understanding the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Tunisia and Egypt
December 2013
Why has private entrepreneurship in Egypt and Tunisia remained underdeveloped despite decades of economic liberalization and private sector-friendly incentives and reforms?
News
Egypt Scholar Reexamines 2011 Uprising in New Book
November 2021
The Program on Arab Reform and Democracy (ARD) at CDDRL hosted a talk featuring Mona El-Ghobashy, Clinical Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies at New York University, who discussed her latest book...
Tunisian Activists Examine the Threat of Authoritarian Resurgence
November 2021
The Program on Arab Reform and Democracy (ARD) at CDDRL hosted a panel featuring Tunisian activists, who examined the threat of authoritarian resurgence in the country after the power grab executed...
Mofeed-19 Looks at Reporting on COVID-19 in Egypt
October 2021
The Program on Arab Reform and Democracy (ARD) at CDDRL, in partnership with the Arab Studies Institute, is pleased to announce the release of the third episode of Mofeed-19, a 19-minute video...
Events
Thinking about Democracy and Revolution: Egypt’s 2011 Uprising
October 13, 2021
Egypt’s 2011 uprising is widely held to be a case of either failed democratic transition or inauthentic revolution.
Islamists and the Arab Uprisings
May 18, 2021
This event is cosponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University and the Ten Years On Project, www.TheArabUprisings.org ABSTRACT During the height of the mass uprisings...
The January 25 Uprising at Ten: Incomplete Struggles and Evolving Trajectories in Egypt
January 24, 2021
This event is cosponsored by the "Ten Years on Project" ABSTRACT To mark the 10-year anniversary of Egypt’s January 25 Uprising and the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, this panel examines the trajectory...
Projects
Political Participation, Pluralism, and Citizenship Rights in the Arab World
Processes of democratic transition in today’s Arab world carry with them both challenges and opportunities for pluralism and citizenship rights, particularly with respect to the political...
English
Entrepreneurship After the Arab Spring
The project “Entrepreneurship after the Arab Spring” addresses a number of questions on the entrepreneurship ecosystem that comprises the legal, institutional, regulatory, and policy frameworks...
English
The Link between Economic and Political Reform in the Arab World
The Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) is pleased to present the report of this project, which examines the link between...
English
Multimedia
Scholars Examine Egypt’s Political Landscape on the Eve of the January 25 Revolution’s 5th Anniversary
January 2016
With the nearing of the fifth anniversary of the January 25 Revolution, this panel examines the nature of politics under the rule of the current military sponsored regime in Egypt.
Amr Hamzawy: Anti-democratic Deceptions - How Egyptian Liberals Endorse Autocracy
November 2015
On October 27, 2015, ARD Visiting Scholar and former Egyptian Member of Parliament Amr Hamzawy spoke to the CDDRL community, sharing remarks on shifts in liberal thought in Egypt over the past several years.
The Paradoxes of Political Aid in the Arab World
May 2015
AbstractEuropean and US-based scholars and practitioners have debated the purposes and sometimes the (limited) macro-effects of programs designed to promote transitions from authoritarianism to democracy in Middle East countries.
People
Francis Fukuyama Senior Fellow Director, Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science 
Hesham Sallam Research Scholar, CDDRL Associate Director and Research Scholar, Program on Arab Reform and Democracy