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Articles of the author Reem Leila
Violence at Egypt's universities
Over the past few weeks academic experts along with university professors have been warning authorities — with an alarmist tone — about current instability in the country's universities. In fact, since February 2011, when Hosni Mubarak stepped down as president following a nationwide revolt, (...)

22 - 05 - 2013
Out of the shadows
Preserving the Independence of the Egyptian Judiciary, a one day conference held on 20 May, was organised by the judges in cooperation with the International Association of Judges (IAJ). It addressed the gamut of issues involved in Egypt's ongoing judicial crisis, including the regime's violations (...)

21 - 05 - 2013
Territorial gridlock
Nile University (NU) has officially requested the Zewail City for Science and Technology (ZCST) administration to enforce a court order issued by the Supreme Administrative Court last month in favour of the university. The court ruled in November last year that campus grounds and buildings claimed (...)

15 - 05 - 2013
Deeds not words
Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr held a press conference on 12 May to condemn attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque by Jewish settlers and Israeli forces. On 8 May, Israeli soldiers raided the house of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Mohamed Hussein and arrested him. Hussein was released a few hours later after his (...)

15 - 05 - 2013
Shadow government in the making
The political atmosphere in Egypt is currently marred by protests that regularly turn violent and even deadly in the absence of a state of law and the presence of an acute economic crisis. Realising the failure of Hisham Kandil's cabinet to face current pressing challenges, the National Salvation (...)

07 - 05 - 2013
Watered down dispute
The River Nile has been the subject of endless treaties, most finalised during the colonial period, all of them imposed to ensure that Egypt and Sudan, as the two downstream states, are guaranteed access to sufficient water. But a status quo that has been in place for more than a century is now (...)

23 - 04 - 2013
Welcome to battle
President Mohamed Morsi met members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) as well as Prosecutor-General Talaat Abdallah on 22 April in an attempt to pacify judges who they say were insulted by the Muslim Brotherhood and accused for being corrupt. During the meeting, judges demanded an official (...)

23 - 04 - 2013
Campus chaos
Clashes broke out again at Ain Shams University, this time on 16 April. Civil and military police surrounded the campus to end the violence. Student unions of Cairo, Ain Shams, Helwan and Mansoura universities along with 41 student movements also held several protests and sit-ins in a general show (...)

17 - 04 - 2013
Pushed back
Although women participated in the 25 January Revolution, one of whose goals was freedom, they did not gain any more rights than they already had. On the contrary, repercussions appeared in the form of attempts to annul laws which provided them with several rights during the rule of former (...)

17 - 04 - 2013
Burning questions
On 4 April the first two floors of South Cairo Criminal Court were gutted by a fire which raged for two hours before 35 fire engines and their crews managed to control the flames. The fire engines were slow in arriving and had difficulty negotiating the narrow streets that back the court building (...)

10 - 04 - 2013
Telling tales
Since Islamist President Mohamed Morsi came to power he and the Muslim Brotherhood, from whose ranks Morsi hails, have been criticised vociferously in the media for failing to formulate coherent policies of their own and instead adopting the discredited policies of the Mubarak-era. The new regime (...)

03 - 04 - 2013
Women win
After 12 days of non-stop discussions, the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) completed its 57th session on 15 March, during which Egypt along with 130 other member states approved a new declaration on the prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls. However, several Arab (...)

20 - 03 - 2013
Time to ponder
The National Salvation Front (NSF) believes the delay in holding parliamentary elections caused by the Administrative Court's referral of the election law to the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) opens a window of opportunity to pressure President Mohamed Morsi to compromise on a number of major (...)

13 - 03 - 2013
Determining the cause of death
On 10 March prosecution authorities formed a committee comprising five university professors specialised in forensic medicine to investigate the death of activist Mohamed Al-Guindi. The committee is headed by Magda Al-Karadawi, the acting chair of the Forensic Medicine Authority (...)

12 - 03 - 2013
Invasion of the locusts
As if the present state of domestic unrest was not enough for the country to deal with, Egypt has lately also been experiencing nature's anger with swarms of red locusts now threatening the country's agriculture. The locusts have been sighted at the Cairo International Airport, having been chased (...)

06 - 03 - 2013
Speaking for power
On 20 February, a week after presidential spokesman Yasser Ali announced he was leaving his post President Mohamed Morsi appointed two new spokesmen. Former diplomats Ihab Fahmi and Omar Amer will now speak on behalf of the president. They will take over from Ali, who has been moved to head the (...)

27 - 02 - 2013
Judges' fight continues
Reports on Tuesday said that Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has started taking measures to strip judge Ahmed Al-Zend, chair of the country's Judges Club, of his legal immunity. The measures are being taken at the request of Prosecutor-General Talaat Abdallah in order to question Al-Zend on (...)

27 - 02 - 2013
Charges and counter-charges
A general assembly meeting of the Cairo Judges Club is scheduled to be held tomorrow, Friday 22 February, to discuss the crisis surrounding the country's prosecutor-general, Talaat Abdallah, who was appointed by President Mohamed Morsi, and what members describe as the “non-stop attempts” to (...)

20 - 02 - 2013
Refurbishing the presidency
Nour Party member Bassem Al-Zarka, President Mohamed Morsi's adviser for political affairs, submitted his resignation on 18 February in solidarity with fellow party member Khaled Alameddin, sacked as the president's adviser for environmental affairs a day earlier amid briefings he had used his post (...)

20 - 02 - 2013
Public or private universities?
Since the establishment of the first private university in Egypt, aside from the venerable American University in Cairo (AUC), in 1996, there has been a perception that the growing number of these establishments is creating as many problems as it has solved, with some parents and students thinking (...)

13 - 02 - 2013
No change ahead?
The Islamist governments that came to power in Egypt and Tunisia after the Arab Spring revolutions in 2011 are facing increasing popular challenges, with some political activists and many members of the two countries' oppositions claiming that an atmosphere of fanaticism has taken hold in both (...)

13 - 02 - 2013
Following Morsi's steps
On 7 February judge Khaled Al-Mahgoub, head of Ismailia Appeals Court, asked the Ministry of Interior to provide the court with a detailed report regarding prisoners who escaped from Wadi Al-Natroun jail on 29 January 2011. Thousands of inmates fled Wadi Al-Natroun, north of Cairo, where dozens of (...)

13 - 02 - 2013
Tainted by sexual harassment
“It happened abruptly and very quickly,” said Yasmine Al-Baramawi, a female protester assaulted in Cairo's Tahrir Square. “All of a sudden, dozens of men were running after me and my friend, who managed to escape. But I fell to the ground. I found myself alone in the middle of them. Suddenly, they (...)

06 - 02 - 2013
Talking shop
The 12th summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) opened in Cairo yesterday. Fifty delegations from the 56-state organisation were expected to attend the two-day meeting during which Senegal will hand the chairmanship of the OIC to Egypt. President Mohamed Morsi is heading the (...)

06 - 02 - 2013
Chaos rules
Clashes between protesters and police on 25 and 26 January left 46 dead, including a six-month-old baby in Suez, and hundreds injured. In the same period two years ago seven protesters were killed. The changing dynamic of protest is exemplified by the media frenzy surrounding the emergence of the (...)

30 - 01 - 2013
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