Category Archives: Arab Spring
February 10, 2016
TIME: Wednesday 10th February 2016, 13:00-14.00
VENUE: Committee Room 12, House of Commons, SW1A 0AA
SPEAKER: Professor Asher Susser, Director for External Affairs and the Stanley and Ilene Gold Senior Research Fellow,
Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
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December 16, 2015
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November 26, 2015
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April 13, 2015
SPEAKER: David Keyes
Executive Director of Advancing Human Rights
TIME: 1 – 2pm, Monday 13 April 2015
VENUE: The Henry Jackson Society, 26th Floor, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London, SW1P 4QP
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May 20, 2014
A Henry Jackson Society, Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and the America – Bosnia Foundation Panel Discussion
SPEAKERS:
Aylin Ünver Noi
Assistant Professor at Department of International Relations
Vice-Director of the European Union Application and Research Center
Gedik University, …
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April 10, 2014
A new Henry Jackson Society Report – The Arab Spring: An Assessment Three Years On – examines the ways in which the Arab Spring has affected the citizens of countries across the Middle East and North Africa, and assesses the impact on countries three years …
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January 28, 2014
First published in Foreign Affairs
In late November 2013, Egyptian police rounded up 14 female activists in downtown Cairo, including three prominent women who had helped lead the first protests against former President Hosni Mubarak’s regime in 2011. Three years later, …
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December 20, 2013
First published in The Journal of International Security Affairs
Just weeks after overthrowing President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, the Egyptian military launched a campaign against “violence and terrorism” in the country, featuring a large-scale crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. Some 1,000 Egyptians protesting Morsi’s …
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December 18, 2013
PRESS RELEASE: 17 December 2013
Henry Jackson Society report – Marginalising Egyptian Women – shows the role the post-Revolution Egyptian government played restricting women’s rights in the public sphere through sexual violence and political marginalisation
Marginalising Egyptian Women, a new report by the Henry …
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December 17, 2013
This is a summary of an event with Emily Dyer, Research Fellow at The Henry Jackson Society, and Nervana Mahmoud, commentator and blogger, on 17 December 2013.
A transcript for the event will be uploaded here
Addressing an audience in the House …
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Emily Dyer’s report, Marginalising Egyptian Women, examines the role the post-Revolution Egyptian government played restricting women’s rights in the public sphere through sexual violence and political marginalisation.
The report’s findings are based on extensive first-hand interviews carried out by the report’s author Emily …
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SPEAKERS:
Emily Dyer, Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society
Nervana Mahmoud, Commentator and Blogger on Egypt
RESPONDENT: Elaine Chard, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
TIME: 12.30 – 1.30pm, Tuesday 17th December 2013
VENUE: Committee Room 17, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
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November 26, 2013
This is a summary of an event with Dr. Thomas Hegghamer, Director of Terrorism Research at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, on 26 November 2013; it reflects the views expressed by the speaker and not those of the Henry Jackson …
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November 13, 2013
Henry Jackson Society Research Fellow Emily Dyer addressed leading women’s rights advocates at the ‘Mediterranean Women in Leadership Conference’, held in the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 10 November 2013.
The presentation largely focused on sexual violence against women in Egypt, …
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November 5, 2013
This is a summary of an event with Dr Dan Schueftan, Director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, on 5 November 2013; it reflect the views expressed by the speaker and not those of The …
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