The failed struggle for democracy in the Arab world, and what's next | Amr Hamzawy

The failed struggle for democracy in the Arab world, and what's next | Amr Hamzawy | TEDxMidAtlantic

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7 жыл бұрын

The Arab Spring ushered in dramatic change in North Africa and the Middle East, but democracy has struggled to take hold. Living through the uprisings in Egypt, Amr Hamzawy tells the story of the revolutions and attempted transitions to democracy. Not all is lost, however, as he argues that the youthful energy and activism has simply moved away from politics and will rise once again.
Amr Hamzawy is an Egyptian political scientist and human rights activist. He is a former member of the People’s Assembly after being elected in the first Parliamentary elections in Egypt after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. He is also a former member of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights. Hamzawy is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and an associate professor of political science at Cairo University.
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@harhourifaten8157 6 жыл бұрын

Tunisia is the only Arab country that succeeded in maintaining a Democratic state.

@sherkjlsjdf6334 5 жыл бұрын

@David Garcia give it time islam will fail agian

@Yousg27 5 жыл бұрын

Not true! The old regime is back with full vengeance

@generalehannibal9878 5 жыл бұрын

@LGA [ush] Can you say Fuk the king there ?

@Hanible 5 жыл бұрын

not true it's been decaying since troyka 2014

@randomguy8647 3 жыл бұрын

@@sherkjlsjdf6334 *again

@nikariff18 Жыл бұрын

Religion is not the issue , the issue is when rulers impose orthodox authoritarian military state.Cause stagnation in intellectual discourse making society less critical on logic and reason , makin them 'obedient' to the state without skepticism

@muhammedsaed343 6 жыл бұрын

iam crying while iam watching ; iam Egyptian

@georgeseinfeld4150 3 жыл бұрын

Love from America

@TomTom-qs4re Жыл бұрын

@osamaibrahim5356 Жыл бұрын

Hamzawy is an Egyptian public figure who's word is well appreciated between the young people in Egypt. I personally can confirm and approve most of what he said in this talk regarding the harsh political situation in Egypt. However i have to differ with what he said in minute 14, when he said that the government *in Egypt* is oppressing people and imprison them because it is a type of Islamic government. The dictatorship in Egypt is totally non religious just like the north Korean and the Chinese ones not like Vatican or Saudi Arabia. In the matter of fact the it oppresses the religious for not obeying as much as those who insult the Islamic figures. many examples can be found.

@mohammadbuhamad7744 Жыл бұрын

Chomsky has a good commentary on the subject. Look up why America doesn't want democracy to succeed in the Middle East.

@mrt445 4 ай бұрын

You can't entirely blame Americans

@Sneaker_head Жыл бұрын

The monarchy in Morocco has been there for over a 1000 years, just a clarification, the Alawite dinasty in Morocco ruling now was established in 1631 that's more than 400 years ago, and btw it doesn't have anything to do with the Alawites in Syria and Iraq, us Moroccans are in very and I say verrry good terms with our monarchy, we can talk to our king and he listens hamdulillah...

@DrLeperchaun 4 жыл бұрын

The video needs captions. At the least auto generated English.

@saalllmmmmaaaa 2 жыл бұрын

it is actually really sad, funny, and terrifying, all at once, to see the amount of conspiracy in these comments

@abdalrrahim 11 ай бұрын

I mean ... it's not a conspiracy if it's proven true over and over again .

@84Joooli 4 жыл бұрын

Cant see the comments

@benrhoumaiheb4665 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe failed for you. Not for us.

@emana.3562 3 жыл бұрын

Where are you from?

@iblahim2000 5 жыл бұрын

Like every Egyptian, he speak about Morocco and other arabs countries like if it was Egypt ...

@iblahim2000 3 жыл бұрын

@@Billythetoaster2004 Moroccans doesn't "fear" their King, it's not an "oppressive" state like Egypt although there is a lot of corruption ... Egyptians generally see the Arabic and Islamic world as a greater Egypt ...

@JonasTuk 3 жыл бұрын

@@iblahim2000, while Moroccans may not "fear" the state, the MENA-region, except Tunesia, are roughly in the same situation. The only difference Egypt has is they actually had democracy for a short-lived while.

@lornakim9886 5 жыл бұрын

KZfaq Gang Stalking Senate Hearings Ron Wyden

@tunesischedeutsche8425 4 жыл бұрын

When talking about failed democracies you have to differentiate between Tunisia and the rest of the Arab World.

@sm1sm2sm3 2 жыл бұрын

There's no difference. Tunisia is far from being a democracy. Democracy is not just about elections and press freedom ,and even with the later ,the Islamist Nahda party and its allies tried to restrict it.

@CenaniHarun 5 жыл бұрын

As far as we know Turkey gives free homes, pocket money each moth, free education and freedom to live anywhere in its borders for more than 4 million Syrians... And not a word about this country which has spent almost 40 billion dollars ??? Just say other countries elsewhere ?... Nooo, this is not the way to point the problem. Shame on you.

@abbudioudeh 4 жыл бұрын

Its the least turkey could do to atone it's sins in the region!

@kuroazrem5376 3 жыл бұрын

Turkey is a totalitarian State.

@CenaniHarun 3 жыл бұрын

@@kuroazrem5376 Unfortunately so,..

@jericsonsalvacion2925 8 ай бұрын

Monarchy result in inequality onlu ruling family become rich Corruption

@karz12 5 жыл бұрын

Marriage of mosque and state. Simple.

@osamaibrahim5356 Жыл бұрын

The dictatorship in Egypt is totally non religious just like the north Korean and the Chinese ones not like Vatican or Saudi Arabia. In the matter of fact the it oppresses the religious for not obeying as much as those who insult the Islamic figures. many examples can be found.

@abdalrrahim 11 ай бұрын

Islam hasn't been involved in government for 200 years thanks to the colonial Europe so...

@levitate3065 2 жыл бұрын

we dont need ur democracy thankyou

@yahudigahba Жыл бұрын

Their "democracy" is invading and destroying Middle East, and they expect us to be violent and war loving like them.

@abdalrrahim 11 ай бұрын

Ma man 💪

@navylaks2 6 жыл бұрын

First of all North Africa is not Arab and never have been nor should it ever be and second as long as Saudi Arabia and The Islamic Republic of Iran are both being protected from eachother by both the United States and Russia their necessary destruction can not happen

@zakeltumi7323 5 жыл бұрын

navylaks2 North Africa is Arab

@JonasTuk 3 жыл бұрын

The whole MENA-region is arab

@jesesitofana2071 2 жыл бұрын

north africans are 100% arabs you dont know shii lol

@karma5321 Жыл бұрын

north africa is not arab?? did you miss basic geography?

@salmakh.9201 4 жыл бұрын

Tunisia is the first democracy in the arabic world, so stop taking about all arabic country same way, Tunisia is tooo far from Egypt sir, you can’t compare 😒😒😒

@JonasTuk 3 жыл бұрын

They are very much comparable, both countries had a high BNP before The Arab Spring, and they both had and still have very politically active citizens. These are the presumed two main factors for democracy to work. While Tunisia succeeded in creating a political system that made the parties reliant on each other instead of one party gaining all the power, Egypt failed to create such a system, which resulted in The Muslim Brotherhood gaining total power with 71% of mandates at the first democratic election in Egypt. The rest of the story we know. To say Tunisia and Egypt are far from each other is just wrong, even Tunisia just had better prerequisites for democracy than Egypt, in form of a better BNP and so on, and managed to create a better political system.

@setokaiba1742 2 жыл бұрын

Foolish thing to say when no arab country ever succeeded with democracy . The only succesful ones were monarchy countries. And its a funny thing to brag about tunisia when thier parliamant and the goverment have failed to rule the country and got suspended by the president himself and they are still suspended till now . So he is right democracy doesnt actually work on the arab world.

@yahudigahba Жыл бұрын

@@JonasTuk We dont want democracy, we just want western countries to stop invading and destroying our countries.

@arabprogressive6971 Жыл бұрын

This comment didn't age well.

@kobray3455 4 ай бұрын

ahaahahahha kais saied agree with this comment