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Announcement

Professor Emad Shahin, DI Facutly Affiliate, on "Toleration in Modern Islamic Polity: Contemporary Islamic Views"

| June 03, 2008

Professor Emad Shahin, Visiting Professor in Harvard's Government Department and DI Faculty Affiliate, recently published a chapter on "Toleration in Modern Islamic Polity: Contemporary Islamic Views" in Toleration on Trial.

News

The Challenge of Islamism

    Authors:
  • Richard Bulliet
  • Carrie Wickham
  • Olivier Roy
| Dec. 05, 2007

"The Middle East: Between Progress and Conflict," an inaugural conference jointly hosted by The Dubai Initiative and the Dubai School of Government, was held on November 8, 2007 at the Kennedy School of Government.

Panel II: The Challenge of Islamism was chaired by Emad Shahin

  1. Continuity and Change in Islamist Ideology - Richard Bulliet, Columbia University, Middle East Institute
  2. Muslim Brotherhood: Between Democracy and Ideology - Carrie Wickham, Emory University
  3. The Challenges of Radical Ideologies - Olivier Roy, Center for International Studies and Research

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Journal Article

Egypt: The Year of the Elections and Elusive Political Reforms

The year 2005 was a momentous, yet turbulent one for Egypt. The country witnessed two major elections, presidential
and parliamentary, a vibrant movement towards political reform,
and a remarkable political mobility. All this came against a background of internal domestic pressures on the regime to expand the scope of pluralism,and amidst concerns that President Mubarak would run for office for a fifth term, thus ruling Egypt for 29 years.The increased interest of external actors, particularly the US and the EU, in
political reforms has also prompted the regime to introduce a series of
measures that allowed the country, for the first time since it became a republic, to have a multi-candidate presidential elections and a relativelymore contested legislative elections.

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Policy Brief

Egypt's Moments of Reform: A Reality or an Illusion?

The movement for democratic reform in Egypt seems to be gathering strength. Some of the factors that would make a good case fordemocratic transformation are rapidly converging: the formation of a wide spectrum of discontented segments in society; the mushrooming of pro-reform grass-roots movements that agree on a clear list of short-term demands; and a sympathetic pro-reform international context. With presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled to take place in September and November respectively, will Egypt finally experience its democratic spring?

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Paper

Political Islam: Ready for Engagement?

| February 2005

This paper explores the possibilities and implications of a European engagement with moderate Islamists on democracy promotion in the region. It argues that the EU approach to political reform in the Middle East region needs to be enhanced and linked to realities on the ground. Political reform cannot be effective without the integration of non-violent Islamic groups in a gradual, multifaceted process.

Paper

Political Islam in Egypt

| May 2007

The landscape of political Islam in Egypt has changed dramatically over the past decade and a half. Since the mid-1990s, the country's mainstream Islamic movement, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB, or Muslim Brothers), has undergone a significant transformation; an Islamist centrist party, Hizb al-Wasat, has emerged and for the past ten years has been struggling to acquire official recognition; and the country's radical movements, especially the Jama`a Islamiya, have reassessed some of their tactics.