Hosni Mubarak

Islamism and Politics: Going in Circles

• July 3, 2014

It must be a drag to live in a strict Islamist regime: the legal system stems entirely from Islamic — sharia — law, in which adulterers are stoned to death, thieves have their hands chopped off, and the renunciation of Islam, or apostasy, is punishable by death. Liberal democracy? Gender equality and women’s rights? …

BOOKS

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Vibrant Networking Keeps the Door Open for Arab Women

Barbara Crossette

• August 26, 2013

Throughout the media coverage in recent months of the tumultuous events in Egypt, little attention has been paid to Egyptian women, who may have the most to gain or to lose in any new political order that emerges in the country. Social media and dedicated Web sites are filling the gap for many women …

Human Rights, Middle East, Women

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Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian Nobelist, Named Deputy President

Barbara Crossette

• July 4, 2013

After a week of political jockeying involving Egypt’s interim president, Adly Mahmud Mansour, the country’s military and a radical Islamist party that refused to accept Mohamed ElBaradei as prime minister, the former head of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency was finally appointed deputy president for foreign affairs on July 9. In a …

Africa, Middle East

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A UN Expert on Women Who Refused to Be Silenced

Barbara Crossette

• July 1, 2013

In the global annals of women’s rights defenders over the last half century, Nafis Sadik’s name will always rank high, though little may be known about her among the broad American public, focused as it usually is on Western feminists with Western issues. As head of the United Nations Population Fund in 1994, Sadik …