Islam with a Heart
Islam with a Heart[1] Emad El-Din Shahin “وما ارسلناك الا رحمة للعالمين” “We have Sent you but a Mercy to Humankind” Qur’an “إنما انا رحمة مهداة” “I am but a gift of Mercy” Prophet Muhammad “الناس صنفان : إما اخ…
Publications
The Struggle Over Democracy in the Middle East
Edited by: Nathan J. Brown and Emad Shahin Description: Many residents of the Middle East – and more recently, Western powers – have placed great hope in democratization in the region. Yet authoritarianism remains the norm and movement towards democracy is…
Introduction and Conclusion – Struggle Over Democracy
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Egypt: The Year of the Elections and Elusive Political Reforms
Abstract: 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…
Egypt’s Moment of Reform A Reality or an Illusion?
Abstract: 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…
Political Islam: Ready for Engagement?
Abstract: The voluminous literature on reform and democratization in the Middle East region reveals a number of facts: a main obstacle to reform are the incumbent regimes that have been trying to resist and circumvent genuine democratic transformations; political reform cannot be…