In January – April 2018, LDI ran a nationwide campaign to monitor the freedom and fairness of presidential elections. LDI produced a detailed report documenting the electoral process and provided a scientific evaluation of the political and legislative context of the elections to measure the progress of democratic transformation in Egypt.
In late 2015, LDI ran a nationwide campaign to monitor the freedom and fairness of parliamentary elections. As a result, LDI produced six assessment reports that provided a scientific evaluation of the electoral process from the first day of calling for candidates till the last day of announcing ballot results.
This situation report analyzes why the Mulsim Brotherhood failed to keep their presidential seat in Egypt in 2012 and why they continued to fail as a group after the fall of their regime in Egypt and Tunisia
This book is the first publication to introduce “reverse nonviolent action” as a new theory within the socio-political field of nonviolent action and strategies. Through studying the curious case of Egypt during and after the waves of Arab Spring revolutions, the author proposes an insider’s answer to Arab Spring’s academic and political most complicated questions. This is the first Arab Spring related study to analyze the strategic choices made by the military institution, official and non-official Islamists, and the young liberal democratic activists to employ violent aggression, nonviolent strategies, and reverse nonviolent action to achieve social change and win political power.
Follow-up and assessment report on Egypt’s progress on human rights thematic categories related to liberal democratization and fighting terrorism based on UPR mechanism at the United Nation’s Council of Human Rights. This report provides an assessment to the progress achieved by the Egyptian state on the 2nd Cycle Recommendations, with special focus on issues related to liberal democratization, religious tolerance, and fighting violent extremism.
In September – December 2020, LDI team monitored Egypt’s House of Representative Elections and produced an assessment report on the progress of liberal democratization process in Egypt, through evaluating the freedom and fairness of the electoral process within the general political and legislative context of Egypt.
In July – September 2020, LDI monitored Egypt’s Senate Elections and produced an assessment report on the progress of liberal democratization process in Egypt, through evaluating the freedom and fairness of the electoral process within the general political and legislative context of Egypt.
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