AR Egypt After the Arab Spring – Muslim Brothers and the Destined Role оf Women in Egyptian Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Stoyanova-Encheva ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Great Hope ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Muslim Brothers

The Arab Spring in Arab Republic of Egypt was met with great hope of changing the status quo, of democratization, economic and social changes, of achieving full justice and endorsing equal opportunity for all Egyptian citizens. Nine years later, this dream is still not realized. The article follows up on the rule of MB and provides an analysis of the changing rights and freedoms of women under its ruling.

Revolution

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nimer Sultany
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Political Order ◽  
New Order ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Arab Spring

This chapter argues that revolution is not separate from the very discourse and arrangements it responds to. Rather, it is subsumed in a legitimation discourse, and it is engulfed by similar tensions. Although revolution may erupt because of a perceived legitimacy deficit, it does not solve the conceptual deficiency of legitimacy. This is because revolution vacillates between an event that inaugurated it and a process that seeks to complete it. This duality makes revolution a contradictory concept that includes its own negation because different protagonists deploy it in contradictory ways. The very qualities that enable the designation of the Arab Spring as a revolution enable the counter-revolution. In other words, revolution does not provide a stable, unambiguous framework within which the new political order can be established. Consequently, the revolution’s attempt to delegitimate the status quo and legitimate the new order re-enacts the incoherence and instability of other legitimation devices.

Critical International Relations Theories and the Study of Arab Uprisings: A Critique

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-150
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Abozaid
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Other ◽  
Arab Uprisings ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Western Perspective

This study articulates that most of the critical theorists are still strikingly neglecting the study of the Arab Uprising(s) adequately. After almost a decade of the eruption of the so-called Arab Uprisings, the study claims that the volume of scholarly engaging of dominate Western International Relations (IR) theories with such unprecedented events is still substantially unpretentious. Likewise, and most importantly, the study also indicates that most of these theories, including the critical theory of IR (both Frankfurt and Habermasian versions), have discussed, engaged, analysed, and interpreted the Arab Spring (a term usually perceived to be orientalist, troubling, totally inappropriate and passive phenomenon) indicate a strong and durable egoistic Western perspective that emphasis on the preservation of the status quo and ensure the interests of Western and neoliberal elites, and the robustness of counter-revolutionary regimes. On the other hand, the writings and scholarships that reflexively engaged and represent the authentic Arab views, interests, and prospects were clearly demonstrating a strong and durable scarce, if not entirely missing. Keywords: International Relations, Critical Theory, Postcolonial, Arab Uprising(s), Middle East, Revolutions.

scholarly journals Political elites of the Arab world and their influence

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
A. Sh. Abhari ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Foreign Intervention ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The Military ◽  
Shed Light

The debate between political scientists about the "Arab Spring" revolutions is still escalating. Especially regarding the forces operating at the scene. Attempts by the military elite to retain power and try to maintain the status quo at any cost, leaving the doors wide open for foreign intervention The foreign interventions of countries that are trying to use the wave of the Arab spring to achieve their goals have especially complicated the situation in the Arab world. In this article I will try to shed light on some factors influencing the results of the “Arab Spring” revolutions.

Political Economy of Exclusion: State-Based Incitement of Intolerance as a Distraction from a Downturn in the Economy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lana Shehadeh ◽  
Qing Lai
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Rentier State ◽  
Political Survival ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Economic Downturns ◽  
The Status ◽  
Oil Revenues ◽  
The Arab Spring

Abstract Middle East scholars have traditionally attributed the survival of monarchs in the Gulf to the use of financial appeasements fueled by oil revenues. With rampant political insecurity in the region and the revolutionary fervor present after the Arab Spring, leaders have gone beyond the traditional rentier state system to ensure political survival by playing on the sentiments of sectarianism and identity politics. This paper argues that religious sectarianism is not only a question of attitudes and sentiments toward a religious minority but also a politically motivated state mechanism used to maintain the status quo and ensure an extended legitimation of power. We argue that the state often capitalizes on people's fear of economic adversities to incite sectarian exclusions of religious minorities, this is especially evident in times of economic hardships. With survey data from the Arab Barometer, we examined such political psychology in Saudi Arabia in 2011, at the onset of the Arab Spring. We found that Sunni Muslim sentiments of sectarian exclusion toward the Shi‘a minority could be attributed to not just religiosity but also state crafted incitement by the Saudi government. In particular, our results show that state-based sectarian intolerance was in part fueled by the government's scapegoating of the Shi‘a communities during times of economic downturns.

The New Politics of Movement Activism

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey T. Kenney
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Track Record ◽  
Entire Nation ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Islamist Movement ◽  
Muslim Brothers

This paper examines the challenges facing the Society of Muslim Brothers in Egypt as it negotiates the democratic opening of the Arab spring. An Islamist movement with an established ideological track record, the Society of Muslim Brothers has played a prominent role in Egyptian society for over eighty years. It has now emerged as a major political faction, but its Islamist values and goals may conflict with the democratic politics to which it has committed. Compromise is not new to the Society of Muslim Brothers; it has survived as a movement by doing so. Working on behalf of the Islamist cause in the streets, however, is vastly different than representing an entire nation in the halls of power. Now the Society of Muslim Brothers must decide whether to reinterpret its Islamist agenda for the good of the polity or reinterpret democracy for narrow movement interests.

scholarly journals INITIATING LAW REFORM IN INDONESIA (FROM THE DIGNIFIED JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-25
Author(s):  
Christina Maya Indah S ◽  
Teguh Prasetyo
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Sociological Jurisprudence ◽  
Legislative Branch ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government

It is argued in this article that a study on the law reform of a country is the study which related to understanding of a scientific paradigm which made up of the basic idea of a country’s legal system. The main argument in this article is that the basic idea ofma legalmrefom on a legal system must be build upon the enforcement of the juridical principles found and developed in the system. This is derived from a postulate of the Dignified Justice teory perspective.In this view legal virtues underpinning a legal system are examined together as one system of principles and rules or a legal system. Philosophically, or it is a theoretical and a paradigm that law is believed as inseparable from the legal science itself. This philosophy has been developed to make a correction to the sociological jurisprudence perspective, which mainly argued that each occurence of social changes in a legal system cannot be answered by regulation alone. The sociological jurisprudence point of view argues that law is confined to the status quo of a society. Many has argued that this sociological indicative has occurred in many civil law systems, in particular Indonesia, to be used as its best prototype. In the Indonesian legal system, law is positioned as rules and regulations made by the legislative branch of the government. In this perspective laws has been excluded from humanity almost altogether. This article argues that Pancasila as the Indonesia Legal System is the way to solve this problem. Since Pancasila is used as the basis of the State and the source of all legal sources. For this reason, it is interesting to examine how the Pancasila actually became a basis of values in initiating the project of law reform in Indonesia.

The Foreign Policy of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood

2018 ◽  
pp. 70-103
Author(s):  
Tewfik Aclimandos
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Break Up ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Muslim Brothers

How the Muslim Brothers in Egypt have ceased the opportunity provided by the Arab Spring to put their ideology in the field of international affairs into practice? What have been the diplomatic rationale that have determined the Morsy presidency’s foreign action and discourse? It turns out that their ideological stances have led them to nurture a very specific understanding of the role of Egypt in the Middle East. This attempt to build, under very specific constraints, an Islamist diplomacy has reinforced the weaknesses of Morsy’s power. The desire to break up with Mubarak’s legacy has allowed a new turn in the field of foreign policy that has made Morsy’s power appearing more interested in promoting the Umma’s interest than the Egyptian one.

scholarly journals Youth Struggles: From the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter & Beyond

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alcinda Manuel Honwana
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Exclusion ◽  
The Arab Spring

Abstract:The majority of young people in Africa are today living in “waithood,” a prolonged, difficult, and dynamic transition into adult life. This experience is shared with an increasing number of young people in the developed North who are also grappling with issues of joblessness and political exclusion. This waithood generation is increasingly losing faith in the ability of its leaders to address young people’s needs and expectations, and it is rebelling against the status quo. From the youth uprisings that led to the Arab Spring and the ousting of Abdoulaye Wade in Senegal and Campaore in Burkina Faso, to political protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter in the U.S. and Los Indignados in Spain, young people have been at the forefront of political change. However, they have not yet been able to effect systemic change. While profound social transformation takes time, this generation is still wrestling with how to move beyond street protest and have a lasting impact on politics and governance.

scholarly journals Research on the Accounting and Auditing Risk Calculation Strategies of Enterprises in the Information Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 416
Author(s):  
Junna Li
Keyword(s):  
Information Age ◽  
Continuous Optimization ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Chinese Enterprises ◽  
Risk Calculation ◽  
Modern Enterprise ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

After entering the information age, the accounting and auditing work of Chinese enterprises must be updated according to the new changes of the society and the enterprises. As the top priority of modern enterprise management, enterprise accounting auditing requires continuous optimization of the management within the enterprises so that the enterprises’ development could keep pace with the social changes. By introducing information technology into enterprise accounting auditing, it is possible to improve the efficiency of enterprise accounting auditing and to ensure the accuracy of enterprise auditing. This article starts with the status quo of enterprise accounting auditing in the information age. Then, it analyses the current risks of enterprise accounting audit and puts forward some suggestions to prevent the risks. This thesis is expected to provide useful reference for the development of enterprise accounting auditing in the information age.

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