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Islamist Parties and Human Rights
From September 20, 2012 until September 26, 2012
On Wednesday September 26th, Moatz El Fegiery, visiting fellow at FRIDE, delivered a speech on Islamist Parties and Human Rights.
The speech, which took place at 19.30 at Casa Árabe’s Auditorium (c/ Alcalá, 62), was introduced by Eduardo Busquets, director general of Casa Árabe, and Barah Mikaïl, senior researcher at FRIDE. Ayman Abdelsamie Zaineldine, ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to Spain and Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio, professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Alicante, also participated.
El Fegiery analyzed the views of the Muslim Brotherhood and its political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, as well as the Salafist party al-Nour in Egypt, and the al-Nahda party in Tunisia. He compared the approach towards human rights in their election programmes with what they have put in practice in recent months.
One of the most chanted mottos during the Arab revolutions was “bread, freedom and social justice”. In the past 20 months, popular movements and elections have brought Islamist parties to power in Egypt and Tunisia. Both countries are in the midst of constitutional processes which will determine whether they become democracies. One of the aspects, which also needs to be tackled, is how human rights will be enshrined both in their new Constitutions and in their daily lives.
He is a visiting fellow at FRIDE and a PhD candidate in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is the former executive director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and a member of the executive committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN)..
El Fegiery analyzed the views of the Muslim Brotherhood and its political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, as well as the Salafist party al-Nour in Egypt, and the al-Nahda party in Tunisia. He compared the approach towards human rights in their election programmes with what they have put in practice in recent months.
One of the most chanted mottos during the Arab revolutions was “bread, freedom and social justice”. In the past 20 months, popular movements and elections have brought Islamist parties to power in Egypt and Tunisia. Both countries are in the midst of constitutional processes which will determine whether they become democracies. One of the aspects, which also needs to be tackled, is how human rights will be enshrined both in their new Constitutions and in their daily lives.
Moataz El Fegiery
He is a visiting fellow at FRIDE and a PhD candidate in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is the former executive director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and a member of the executive committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN)..
