Private Voluntary Organizations in Egypt
Over the past five years or so, the considerable western interest in the role played by nongovernmental voluntary associations in Egypt has been reflected in a growing English-language literature on the subject. Researchers tackle the question from a range of perspectives. One approach, relatively...
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oai:doaj.org-article:c39b5cd2442d4f18b1cc207fb80a40b72021-12-02T17:49:48ZPrivate Voluntary Organizations in Egypt10.35632/ajis.v13i2.23212690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/c39b5cd2442d4f18b1cc207fb80a40b71996-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/2321https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 Over the past five years or so, the considerable western interest in the role played by nongovernmental voluntary associations in Egypt has been reflected in a growing English-language literature on the subject. Researchers tackle the question from a range of perspectives. One approach, relatively state-centered and legalistic, focuses on how Cairo manages to control, co-opt, or "corporatize" autonomous organizations including labor and professional syndicates, agricultural and other cooperatives, and private not-for-profit groups. The principle tool for reining in private voluntary and community associations is the notorious Law 32 of 1964. Under Law 32, the Ministry of Social Affairs can interfere directly in all aspect of associational life-articulation of goals, election of officers, pursuit of projects, allocation of funds, and so on. Among the wellknown secular nonprofit groups with international linkages that have been denied licenses from the Ministry are the Egyptian Organization of Human Rights and the Arab Women's Solidarity Association. In this legal and policy milieu, many scholars and human rights activists argue that no registered association in Egypt can properly be deemed "nongovernmental." Other analysts, however, accept Cairo's position that the threat of radical Islam justifies authoritarian restrictions on independent organizations. The second group of studies is inspired partly by these concerns over the radicalization of Islamist associations. Scholars familiar with social, eco nomic, and political circumstances in the Nile Valley usually try to counteract hysterical mass media portraits of "Muslim terrorists" with inquiries into the structure, function, membership, activities, and ideologies of a range of Islamist institutions including welfare and charitable associations. The particular strength of politicized Islam in the 1990s, this research suggests, rests on the capacity of Islamist charities to provide a crucial layer of social services to a burgeoning, underemployed, increasingly impoverished population. Opinion is divided, however, on the question of whether this circumstance favors containment and stability or frustration and insurrection. A third set of studies, sometimes overlooked by scholars, comes from within the Cairo-based donor community, the "development practitioners" ... Sheila CarapicoInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 13, Iss 2 (1996) |
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Over the past five years or so, the considerable western interest in
the role played by nongovernmental voluntary associations in Egypt has
been reflected in a growing English-language literature on the subject.
Researchers tackle the question from a range of perspectives.
One approach, relatively state-centered and legalistic, focuses on how
Cairo manages to control, co-opt, or "corporatize" autonomous organizations
including labor and professional syndicates, agricultural and other
cooperatives, and private not-for-profit groups. The principle tool for reining
in private voluntary and community associations is the notorious Law
32 of 1964. Under Law 32, the Ministry of Social Affairs can interfere
directly in all aspect of associational life-articulation of goals, election of
officers, pursuit of projects, allocation of funds, and so on. Among the wellknown
secular nonprofit groups with international linkages that have been
denied licenses from the Ministry are the Egyptian Organization of Human
Rights and the Arab Women's Solidarity Association. In this legal and policy
milieu, many scholars and human rights activists argue that no registered
association in Egypt can properly be deemed "nongovernmental."
Other analysts, however, accept Cairo's position that the threat of radical
Islam justifies authoritarian restrictions on independent organizations.
The second group of studies is inspired partly by these concerns over the
radicalization of Islamist associations. Scholars familiar with social, eco
nomic, and political circumstances in the Nile Valley usually try to counteract
hysterical mass media portraits of "Muslim terrorists" with inquiries into
the structure, function, membership, activities, and ideologies of a range of
Islamist institutions including welfare and charitable associations. The particular
strength of politicized Islam in the 1990s, this research suggests, rests
on the capacity of Islamist charities to provide a crucial layer of social services
to a burgeoning, underemployed, increasingly impoverished population.
Opinion is divided, however, on the question of whether this circumstance
favors containment and stability or frustration and insurrection.
A third set of studies, sometimes overlooked by scholars, comes from
within the Cairo-based donor community, the "development practitioners" ...
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