The new Egyptian Interior Minister, Maj.-Gen. Mansour al-Issawi announced last week that Egyptian women who have a child with a Palestinian man can confer their Egyptian citizenship to their child. This is a significant shift in Egyptian citizenship law with implications from both a gender and a Palestinian perspective. The Egyptian Parliament passed a new […]
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Egyptian officials announced on Saturday that the state’s emergency laws might be lifted in six months. We’ll see. Since 1967, Egypt has spent all but five months under a declared “state of emergency” by which the regime has rationalized the outlawing of demonstrations, the use of indefinite detentions without trial, the extensive use of “security […]
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Egypt held parliamentary elections last Sunday and not surprisingly President Hosni Mabarak’s ruling party won an overwhelming majority of the seats. Also not surprisingly the election results were marred by multiple allegations of voter intimidation and violence. Amnesty International has issued a release calling for the immediate investigation of violence in connection with the elections, […]
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