A View of the Middle East from Within

September 12, 2024

Modernity can take place in the Arab world only when the Arab individual restores her/his sense of self-respect and pride in their heritage that once produced a flourishing modernity and civilization and acquire the will to induce change and progress…

Interviews

A Conversation With a Scholar Who Has Been Sentenced to Death

June 19, 2016

Burton Bollag / 19 Jun 2016 MONTREAL—One of the most prominent targets of the Egyptian government’s crackdown on the academic community has been political scientist Emad El-Din Shahin. A professor of public policy at the American University in Cairo, he was…

Interviews

Scholars At Risk 2016 Global Congress Keynote

June 9, 2016

Recognizing the contributions of SAR institutional members and partners active in hosting scholars and other SAR-activities; featuring remarks by Melanie Adrian, Carleton University, and a keynote interview of Emad Shahin by Nathalie Des Rosiers. Prof. Shahin is a, visiting professor…

Conferences

Al Sharq Forum-Foreign Affairs: Sykes Picot At 100

June 3, 2016

A century ago, a secret agreement between France and Britain carved the Middle East into spheres of influence supervised by the two powers. The Sykes-Picot agreement hastily divided the territory of the former Ottoman empire into a map that did…

Interviews

Ennahda’s Congress Decision to Separate Islam and Politics

June 3, 2016

Al Sharq Forum is an independent think tank that seeks to implant the values of engagement, dialogue and democracy in Middle Eastern and North African countries and contribute to building a stable political future with economic prosperity.

Multimedia Library

Islamic Political Thought after the Arab Spring

March 15, 2016

In the roughly two decades prior to the Arab Spring in 2011, Muslim clerics, intellectuals and political activists had developed frameworks for envisioning and explaining the relationship (actual and desired) between Islam, the state and society. These frameworks were often…

Multimedia Library

Legal Restrictions on Thought & Expression in Pakistan, Egypt, Thailand, and Bahrain

March 14, 2016

Emad Shahin speaks about the state of academic freedoms and human rights in Egypt

Conferences

Egypt—The Death of the Public Sphere

December 17, 2015

Panel discussion held at the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) on November 22, 2015 in Denver, with the exiled Egyptian scholars Emad Shahin (currently at Georgetown University) and Amr Hamzawy (Visiting Scholar at Stanford University), followed…

Conferences

Post-political governance: Networks, cities, citizenship and micro politics

December 6, 2015

Emad Shahin, visiting Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, talks about the elements that lead to change in the Middle East as the keynote speaker of the 4th Session of CAF 2015 annual Forum, entitled “Post-political governance: Networks,…

Academic Articles

Egypt’s Revolution Turned on its Head

December 3, 2015

Shahin, Emad “Egypt’s Revolution Turned on its Head”, Current History, December 2015.

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