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failure to be active and resilient citizens in the last 30 years in my friend s eyes by not paying attention people give scaf a free hand in preventing morsi from actually governing and my friend himself was already worried because it s been a week and morsi has not done anything even though it was clear which struggles where lying ahead of the newly elected president this couldn t dampen his supporter s joy on the day of celebration unfortunately i have not recorded the woman ululating by now it s been a bit more than a week and indeed morsi has not yet solved the traffic problem in caro but obviously it is not the case that nothing has happened since he was officially announced winner of the 2012 presidential race in egypt rather a lot has been ging on since then even though the outcome remains unclear morsi was sworn in gave speeches in tahrir and at cairo university and allowed for a lot of speculation about potential ministers in his cabinet morsi also met with the heads and ministers of other states among them the king of saudi arabia and foreign secretary clinton and maybe most importantly he decreed that the parliament be reinstated reinstating the parliament was possible and maybe necessary because it had previously been dissolved by scaf after the supreme court had declared parts of the electoral law unconstitutional scaf and the supreme court on the other hand refuted the legitimacy of morsi s decree but up to now the case is still pending as the administrative court also has a word to say in that issue the issue of the dissolved reinstated pending parliament is illustrative of the overall situation none of the power struggles has come to closure yet and there is a lot of unfinished business in pretty much any field that you can think of while this was to be expected from an ongoing revolution facing a counterrevolution or at least a resilient military regime what s shocking me is the lack of sound analysis in both egyptian and international commercial and non commercial media and in the public discourse take the parliament issue barely any journalist politician or self proclaimed commentator like i am discusses the question whether scaf s decision to dissolve parliament was legal or legitimate in the first place hardly anyone makes the effort of distinguishing between the judiciary s verdict supreme court declaring electoral law as unconstitutional and the executive s action scaf dissolving parliament i started going through the english version of the court s decision in an eventually futile attempt to figure out what exactly the court had decreed in face of several pages of legal slang arabic legal slang translated to english might even be worse than legal slang per se i soon threw in the towel and gave up to make up my mind about the legality of morsi s reinstatement decree thanks god the absolutely incredible journalist issandr el amrani was more persistent and eventually commented on the issue in his post moustafa don t call the scc s decision on parliament a dissolution on his blog the arabist yet and this is the surprising part hardly anyone else does people dozing away in the summer heat giving in to exhaustion after 17 months of revolutionary turmoil and worries helpes scaf and the judiciary clinging to power and preventing democratically elected politicians from actually ruling but the mediocre quality of political analysis in media and public discourse might do the bigger share what we see is the endless swamping of the audience with rumours conspiracy theories and dramatic catchphrases what we need is transparent well informed and analytically sharp writing the above mentioned blog the arabist and the website jadaliyya are proof that this is possible posted by sinab at 3 56 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday june 18 2012 muslim brother morsi leading the polls but as if last night s counting of the votes for the presidential election had not been exciting enough scaf issued a new constitutional declaration before midnight if you wanna understand what that means please go ahead and read nathan brown s i nstant analysis of egypt s new constitution on issandr el amrani s fabulous blog the arabist or have a look at alahram s summary of the declaration in english or for those how can at the arabic original posted by sinab at 8 56 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday june 16 2012 why the bad news in egypt is worse than you thought a good article by mohamed el dahshan explaining why it s not been a military coup and pointing to the importance of the more or less clandestine restoration of the emergency law why the bad news in egypt is worse than you thought transitions posted by sinab at 11 09 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest we d be outraged if we weren t so exhausted hossam baghat head of the well known ngo egyptian initiative for personal rights tweeted on thursday commenting on the most recent turn in egypt s transition washington post article by leila fadel describes the situation in cairo yesterday one day after the court ruling to dissolve parliament and one day before the presidential run off only a few bedraggled demonstrators turned out to protest the latest turn in egypt s turbulent journey the court ordered dissolution of parliament honking cars inched past symbolic tombs honoring protesters slain by security forces with presidential balloting to begin saturday people on the sweltering streets looked fatigue and numb even friday s shuttering of the islamist dominated parliament by egypt s ruling military generals who were carrying out the court ruling did not stir much in the way of condemnation many of those who fought hardest for the toppling of hosni mubarak now appear resigned to see the old guard come back to power fatigue and numb seems an appropriate description to me and it appears that the revolutionaries where wrong when they claimed in face of the military coup on february 11 2011 and throughout the entire transitional period now the future is ours and they cannot really take the revolution from us and each time we feel this then again we go to the streets from an interview conducted in december 2011 with a 23 old student here in cairo the idea that tahrir is always there and any step of the ruling powers could be met by another large protest rested on the wrong assumption that the events of january 2011 were nothing but a spontaneous expression of people s will in fact however the large scale processes had been preceded by a long phase of preparation and mobilization they did not come out of the blue and so today a mass protest won t come out of the blue especially not if people are tired and worn out by last years developments so if massive protests are not likely now is there no way to prevent ahmed shafiq from becoming egypt s next president note a president with completely unchecked power now that parliament has been dissolved no constitution is in place and the judiciary is no longer deemed independent well there is a simple option to at least prevent a smooth takeover by shafiq and keep the political game open for another round more than 50 of those polling vote for morsi to me that seems a viable option in particular in face of the daunting alternative yet this might only be so because i am not worried about the geopolitical consequences of an mb led egypt and because i don t find the idea of islamic standards of behaviour enforced in the public sphere too threatening already being in egypt means that i can not behave the way i am used to that a high degree of adaptation is enforced on me and that questions of morality are constantly on my mind and to be fair the fact that other than egypt s religious minorities staunch liberals and westernized youth i can simply leave and settle elsewhere if it pleases me for many egyptians however things look different quoting again from wp the revolution is dead said omnia nabil 24 holding an egyptian flag among protesters in the square outnumbered by vendors peddling revolutionary paraphernalia still she added i will vote for the devil before i vote for the muslim brotherhood ok wait i will vote for the devil rather than for morsi either i completely underestimate the threat of the muslim brotherhood or the old regime s propaganda has been extremely successful for years mubarak and his aides cultivated the storyline it s either us or the islamists the west and many egyptians bought in this narrative and supported the regime no matter what out of fear of well of what exactly one of leila fadel s interview partners has a response he will vote for shafiq because islamists cannot be trusted to make good on the demands of the revolution if they win this will be pakistan afghanistan or iran if i had the chance to argue with this desperate former revolutionary i would like to point out that pakistan afghanistan and iran might not be quite the same for understanding their form of political islam and their current situation the countries history as well as past and current influences of neo imperialist powers need to be taken into consideration i would side with those who say egypt will never be iran yet of course this is arguable in any case however it is remarkable that in egypt the alternative to a military regime and police state the islamists has never been tried this was by the way an argument of some for voting for the mb in the parliamentary elections it seems that at the given time the egyptian society is too divided to unite behind morsi in order to prevent shafiq shafiq has already announced that he would crush any further protests after being elected other than that two recent state advertisements might give a taste of what s to be expected from his presidency first one with subtitles second one only in arabic advertisement warning egyptians to speak to foreigners about sensitive issues advertisement warning egyptians not to spread exaggerated news about the protests in arabic only posted by sinab at 10 52 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday june 15 2012 don t you ever think it couldn t get worse in egypt opening soon reads this grafitti sprayed on the wall of the former ndp headquarters by zeft so more than one year down from the revolution of january 25th many people have learned a lesson most importantly revolutionaries have learned that you really shouldn t congratulate yourself on your achievements too early the old regime has probably learned a lesson how to deal with unwanted attempts at democratisation more successfully in fact since yesterday it seems that the regime has provided us with the perfect blueprint of how to abort a revolution wear the revolutionary forces down in small fights over time while at the same time maintaining the promise of a transition of power following democratic principles prepare everything for the handover of power and make sure you keep all the oppositional forces busily involved in that process then few days before the final democratic battle supposedly decides who obtains presidential power make sure you concentrate all powers in your hands again by following 5 simple steps 1 get the respected judges are on your side 2 issue a law like decree that grants you unlimited power to arrest people 3 make the judges dissolve the democratically elected parliament so that legislative and constitutional power wanders back into your hands again 4 finally install the president of your choice and 5 enjoy this might not be a blueprint working in other countries coz of course we know how different they are even if they belong to the arab moslem african or short non western world but it definitely proved successful in egypt the second round for presidency is scheduled for 16th and 17th of june so that is tomorrow and the day after the competitors in the run off are the muslim brotherhood s mohammed morsi and a remnant of the old regime of the folool ahmed shafiq earlier this week justice minister adel abdel hamid issued a decree giving military intelligence officers the power to arrest civilians until a new constitution is put in place pomed 13 06 2012 as obstructing traffic which pretty much equals demonstration is one of the crimes that military personnel can arrest citizens for the decree s effects resemble those of the infamous emergency law which had blurred the border between police military and judicial powers for years until it was cancelled after the revolution other than undermining the rule of law scaf also regained legislative power yesterday by a court ruling the supreme constitutional court ruled 6 month after the parliamentary elections that they were partially conducted in unconstitutional ways and thus the entire parliament had to be dissolved apparently this also affects the legitimacy of the 100 men strong constituent assembly which had been elected by parliament two days ago the assembly was charged with drafting a constitution given that the country s constitution was disbanded and substituted by scaf s constitutional declaration last year in face of the parliament s dissolution scaf announced it would appoint the members of a new constitutional assembly today effectively all this means that scaf controls the constitution giving body and has re gained legislative power after the dissolution of the legislative body above that the military has the right to arrest people as it pleases oh and last but not least the upcoming elections are expected to make shafiq the new president of egypt shafiq used to be prime minister under mubarak he has repeatedly shown his condescension for revolutionaries and actually citizens in general shafiq promised to crush further demonstrations after being elected maybe that is the reason why he made it to the run off and all in all is as anti revolutionary as you can get he is going to be a president without a parliament without a constitution and with the military establishment on his side i wonder whether mubarak envies him the reaction of egyptian public is not yet clear the public outcry that i would have expected yesterday did not happen indignation was limited to the media and twitter all the people i randomly spoke to in the streets approved of what had happened either because mubarak was a good man because the muslim brothers want to forbid tourism they want to forbid drinking but why do the tourists come here because parliament didn t do anything because i don t like ikhwan the mb if you want to learn more about the bleak situation the egyptian revolution finds itself in i can recommend the following articles egyptian court rulings seen as reversal of last year s revolution by nancy a youssef mcclatchy newspapers thursday 14 june 2012 egypt a country lost in transition progress from autocracy to democracy has been complicated by tensions ...