Arab Securitocracies and Security Sector Reform
Continuation of Securitocracy in Egypt
March, 2014
Ismail Alexandrani
Sherif Mohy El Deen
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Ismail Alexandrani - Field researcher at the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights and freelance journalistSherif Mohy El Deen - Political researcher and analyst and freelance journalist
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These two papers are the result of field investigations into the bloody events that have erupted in the region of Kerdasa on the outskirts of Cairo and in the Sinai peninsula in late 2013, in order to observe the mechanisms by which the Egyptian security forces are dealing with the protests of the citizens there, and to shed light on their continuing activities and psychological repression more than two years after the outbreak of the revolution. This is despite the talk of the need to change the security institutions as a priority and as an essential challenge to change the relationship between the state and its citizens, and to build a democratic foundation.
These two studies come as a complement to the studies previously published by the Arab Reform Initiative on the doctrine and structure of the security institutions in the Arab states and the culture of security, under the title ‘Arab Securitocracies’.
- The War in Sinai: A Battle against Terrorism or Cultivating Terrorism for the Future by Ismail Alexandrani
- State Terrorism and Resistance in Kerdasa - Battle Zone Report by Sherif Mohy El Deen
The papers are available in Arabic here
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