Dr Mariz Tadros is a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and author of The Muslim Brotherhood in Contemporary Egypt, democracy redefined or confined? (Routledge 2012).
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Published in: 50.50Copts of Egypt: Pope Francis, Al-Azhar, and the reality of sectarianism on the groundThe Pope’s meeting with Al-Azhar this week may create goodwill at a high-level, but on the ground, the situation for...
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Published in: 50.50Copts of Egypt: more than political pawns for ISIS and el-SisiRecent attacks on Copts cannot be understood exclusively as militant resistance to authoritarianism in Egypt.
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Published in: 50.50Copts of Egypt: from survivors of sectarian violence to targets of terrorismRecent bombings mark a new era in the religious targeting of Copts – one which is qualitatively different from...
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Published in: 50.50Are we all beheaded Copts?Is the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians by ISIS in Libya associated with a broader political project of cleansing...
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Published in: 50.50Disembodying honour and exposing the politics behind itThe reaction to the public stripping of a Coptic grandmother in Upper Egypt reminds us of the power of popular...
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Published in: 50.50Religious minority women of Iraq: time to speak upWhile the annihilation of religious minorities in Iraq is being systematically enacted, we cannot ignore how the...