Egypt: the battle over hope and morale

Open Democracy HODA ELSADDA 2 November 2011 The deliberate attempt to discredit women’s rights by associating them with the ex- first lady Suzanne Mubarak is a key challenge for women’s rights activists in Egypt, so too is the battle not to surrender to the prophets of doom and gloom, Hoda Elsadda tells Deniz Kandiyoti   DK: As a women’s rights activist

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Egypt's Transitional Injustice

    Posted: 09/02/2014 Dalia Abd El-Hameed  Gender and women’s rights officer for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).   Yara Sallam, the transitional justice officer at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, was arrested on June 21 a block away from a Cairo protest march against a draconian law that effectively bans demonstrations. Under the law, in effect since

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