Omar Samir Khalaf Archives - Arab Forum for Alternatives

Omar Samir Khalaf ,Shimaa El Sharkawy ,Shimaa ElSharkawyIntroduction: Throughout its history, Sudan witnessed two successful revolutions, one in 1964 and another in 1986, and went through a number of incomplete democratic transitions. Under Bashir’s 30-year rule, several uprisings erupted against his economic policies or his wars on several regions including Darfur or South Sudan. With the eruption of Arab Spring revolutions, limited student protests were staged on January 30, 2011 against corruption, price hikes, and the uncertainty of the country’s future in the wake of South Sudan’s secession. The protests mainly took place at the universities of Khartoum and Omdurman.…

Towards a New Syrian Constitution: Constitution Drafting Experiences in the Arab region

3 November، 2019emad oufBooks and manuals, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Education development Policies in Egypt: towards addressing the phenomenon of informal privatization.

1 October، 2019emad oufPapers and studies, Social justice and and inequality Multiple dimensions

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Omar Samir KhalafEgyptOmar Samir This policy recommendation paper is part of a project between the Arab Forum for Alternatives and the Swiss cooperation office Egypt, entitled “Public Policies and Social Justice”, where parallel education and the phenomenon of informal privatization of education in Egypt, or what is known as private lessons, represent a real crisis that has eluded many. A phenomenon affects Egyptian families, overburdens their families and contributes to enhancing disparities according to the different physical capacities to spend from the pocket on education. This paper seeks to search for some solutions and strategies. Mechanisms to reduce the phenomenon…

Political Development Crises in the Arab Region: Between Theory and the Implications of Mobility

1 October، 2019emad oufPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Omar Samir KhalafEgypt ,Jordan ,Lebanon ,Morocco ,TunisiaMohammed El-Agati, Mina Samir Gabi, Omar Samir Khalaf, Shimaa El-Sharkawy, Yasmin Ayman. The book consists of five-chapters, published by the Arab Forum for Alternatives in 2019. After nearly nine years of Arab mobility, attempting to analyze the five political development crises (identity crisis, participation crisis, distribution crisis, penetration crisis, and crisis of legitimacy) and its impact on The Arab Spring affected by it, because the Arab Spring has raised questions related to these crises in different formats. The first chapter written by Mohammed Al-Agati deals with the crisis of identity as a complex concept,…

International institutions and social justice in the Arab Spring countries

18 May، 2019emad oufPapers and studies, Social justice and and inequality Multiple dimensions

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Omar Samir KhalafEgypt ,Morocco ,Tunisia Omar Samir This paper analyzes the roles of the international financial institutions, which are contradictory to the Arab Spring countries, between the mistakes of the past, the call for more just policies, and the actual policies to support a more severe austerity and structural adjustment programs, Economic and social rights and whether there were experiences outside the box of such institutions? The paper tackled the impact of regional and international financial institutions on the economic policies of the Arab Spring countries. The policies of these institutions in the Arab region and the associated conditionalities through…

Alternatives’ Papers – Fourth issue (April 2016)

8 May، 20168fe72e23ug8oPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Mina Samir ,Mohamed ElAgati ,Nouran Ahmed ,Omar Samir Khalaf ,Shimaa ElSharkawy ,Shorouk Al Hariri This issue File of the issue: “Phenomena accompanying Egyptian parliamentary elections in 2015” Political participation in Egyptian parliamentary elections after June 30th Mina Samir 2 Performance of democratic current and revolutionary youth in Egyptian parliamentary elections. Omar Samir 7 Future of Egypt political party: from the unknown to becoming ‎the black horse Shorouk El Harery 10 Reading the participation of Al Nour party in the elections. Nouran Sayed Ahmed 17 Free Egyptians party between slogans and practices Shimaa ElSharkawy 24 The current affiliated with the previous…

Youths and Radical Groups from the Perspective of Youths

23 March، 20168fe72e23ug8oBooks and manuals, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Ali AlMamouri ,Amr ElShobaki ,Anna Fleischer ,Ayman Abdel Moati ,Baligh Al Mekhlafi ,Bilal el Amine ,Cristina Casbon ,Fouad Ghorbali ,Georges Fahmi ,Habiba Mohsen ,Hazim Fouad ,Jana Nakhal ,Jerome Drevon ,Labib Ismail ,Mavie Maher ,Mohamed ElAgati ,Mohamed Sahbi Khalafoui ,Omar Fassatoui ,Omar Samir Khalaf ,Rabha Allam ,Rouba El Helou ,Sahar Mandour ,Samiha ALHamdi ,Sara Soujar ,Sezer OZCAN ,Sheirf Mohieldin ,Yassin BazzazRadical religious groups witnessed three phases of transformation in their contemporary history. They started with big jihadi organizations then were reduced to small cells until big organizations made a powerful comeback that was distinguished by the use of tactics that were…

Social justice in the Arab region between street politics and political paths

21 February، 20168fe72e23ug8oBooks and manuals, Social justice and and inequality Multiple dimensions

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Fathi alShamikhi ,Heba Khalil ,Mohamed ElAgati ,Omar Samir Khalaf ,Raja Kassab ,Salama Kela ,Shimaa ElSharkawy ,Toufic Haddad ,Wael GamalThe concept of social justice was reflected in the discourse of several Arab political platforms whether partisan, parliamentary, or presidential, yet this discourse remains detached from actual policies on the ground and some of them were even at times not in line with social justice to start with. Some of the approaches only focused on one dimension of social justice such as, for example, fair wages which being a main component of the comprehensive concept of social justice cannot be presented as…

Alternatives’ Papers, Second Issue (July 2015)

13 July، 20158fe72e23ug8oPapers and studies, Papers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions, Social justice and and inequality Multiple dimensions

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Ali Hassan ,Arab Forum for Alternatives ,Mina Samir ,Mohamed ElAgati ,Omar Samir Khalaf This issue Follow-ups · Yemeni crisis…an unfinished revolution 1 (A follow-up paper) Topic of the issue · Rise of the left…will it save Greece?: Reading parliamentarian elections results. )A follow-up paper) · What is happening inside the Turkish AK (Justice and Development) party? Ali Hassan · Reading the Sudanese elections. (A follow-up paper) · Knesset Elections: a look at the united Arab list. 38 (A follow-up paper) Issues · Development of citizenship between liberal political philosophy and Egyptian reality. 44 Mina Samir Book of the issue ·…

Political parties… Toward an active role in adoption of more just policies and legislations

26 February، 20158fe72e23ug8oPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Omar Samir KhalafIntroduction: After the January 25th 2011 revolution, there were several new political parties that have emerged in the context of opening the public space and freedom to form political parties and diminishing previous restrictions on the process of creating parties, as this process was subject to the ruling party in terms of criteria and application. Hence, we saw the emergence of many political parties in the past four years, though few of them were effectively working, no matter what, these new parties are considered among gains of the revolution, and political parties are means to achieve policies that…