How does Egypt’s constitution measure up to international standards for constitutional freedom of religion?

There is no indication that the crisis over the judiciary, and the disagreements between the MB and the judges, are set to end any time soon.

The current Egyptian opposition has two main objectives: putting Egypt on the route towards genuine democratisation and stopping the project that it believes political Islam is leading in the country and that it deems perilous to the first objective. As such, the opposition has two macro options: to continue to resort to street pressure, or to work through the ballot box.

Building a rights-respecting state may not be as exhilarating as toppling an abusive regime, but it is essential if revolution is not to become a byway to repression by another name. 

Until just this past week, no high ranking public figure in Egypt has had anything beyond a neatly trimmed mustache for more than a century 

Independent trade unionists strongly oppose Decree 97. On November 28 the Center for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS) held a conference under the slogan, “No to the “Brotherhoodization of the Unions.”

How flawed is Egypt’s new Constitution? Does it solve the country’s more important problems? Does it live up to the aspirations that were expressed through the Egyptian revolution?

I want to know what new ideas this draft Constitution offers for the achievement of justice, citizens' rights and duties, powers of the ruler as far as government, parliament and the judiciary are concerned.

In Iran, the authorities have not only stopped praising Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi as an Islamist revolutionary, but some corners in Tehran are already expressing significant misgivings about the Egyptian Islamist and his ultimate true political ideology and agenda.

Eighteen months after their uprising on January 25th, 2011, Egyptians are still struggling to accept the idea that Egypt’s future should be determined by democratic political contestation, rather than by the street, politicized courts, and the military.