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Name of the Book :religious minorities in Egypt under siege
Author/ George Bushra Sadiq
Publisher/ Amun printing House
Theme/ book discusses the rights of religious minorities in Egypt, and its a simple study describes the current situation of Egyptian minorities and the Egyptian Christian minority specifically.
The book available at Amun printing House, Bab Alloq, 4 Ataft Al-Fayroze, from Imael Abaza St, Lazogly. Cairo, Egypt.
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Name of the Book :Latest Strongholds
Publisher/ Human Rights Watch
Subject t of the book / the book discusses the law to eliminate juvenile death penalty in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan and Yemen in the framework of international treaties law and customary international law and the countries that comply with this prohibition, except the five states that have not adhered to the above-mentioned, the United States was including this list till soon.
How to get the book / Human Rights Watch
fifth Avenue 350, floor No 34
New York 1011-3299
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Name of the Book :papers of Land workshop on: Textile Industry and Textile Labors between Reality and Future
Prepared and published by: Land Center for Human Rights
Theme: the book discuses deliberations that took place at a workshop conducted by Land Center for Human Rights on 12/6/2008, the workshop titled " Textile Industry and Textile Labors between Reality and Future". The four sessions of the workshop tackled the following issues respectively: Textile Industry under the current situation, problems facing Textile Industry and Textile labors, the impact of the decrease of cotton planted lands on the situation of Textile Industry and Textile labors, action program to protect textile labors.
The book available at: Land Center for Human Rrights.
Address: Jala'a St, Ramsis Twoer, Cairo, Egypt. Telephone: 0225750470
Email: / lchr@thewayout.net - lchr@lchr-eg-org
Website: http://www.lchr-eg.org
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Name of the Book :Caricature and Human Rights
Prepared and Edited by: Wael Tawfik
Published by: Hisham Mubarak Law Center
The Subject of the Book: the book discusses how the comics and caricature drawings handle the rights and social issues deploying irony and humor.
In other chapters the book provide a simple explanation to caricature and its role to reflect these issues and what is happening in Egypt of prices rise, torture of citizens in police stations and prisons, and announcing the state of emergency arbitrarily in a comical and humorous way.
How to get the book:
Hisham Law Center
Cairo Branch: 1st Souk Al Tawfikeya, fifth flour
Tel: 02 257-580-08
Aswan Branch: 89 Kournish St. Flat 14, over Sigal.
URL: http://hmlc.katib.org
E-mail: hmlc@link.net
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Name of the Book : observation of the media to consolidate democratic elections
Translated by: Nour Al asaad
Reviewed and verified by: Mai Al Ahmar
Publisher: National Democratic Institution for International Affairs
Theme: the booklet addresses those concerned with freedom of expression and the integrity of elections, to help them promote media observation potentials and factors that affect electoral process. The booklet relies on gradual approach to organize media observation project and tackled how to initiate a project , plan , and organize it, in addition to observation methodologies for different media and political topics , the reader will also find into the booklet guide for observers and how observers transfer the results of their research.
The book available at: National Democratic Institution for International Affairs
2030 road m, north west, fifth floor
Washington DC 20036-3306 USA
Telephone: 5500 728 202 1 +v
Fax: 5520 728 202 1 +
email: contactndi@ndi.org
Website: www.ndi.org
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Name of the Book : resistance of globalization
Translated by: Ahmed Hassan
Publisher: Land Center for Human Rights
This book comes within a series named (Resistance and Globalization), and it’s the first to be published in this series. The Land Center tries through this series to review the consequences of the lately experienced policies in political, social, cultural, and economic life allover the world. whereas peasants have been driven away from their lands, labors are fired from work, factories and resources has been sold, unemployment has increased, medication and housing expenses arose, repress by state's organs is going on, restricted legislations are enforced. The series also tries to find answers to some of inquiries, such as, the relationship between these policies and some international economic institutions like the International Monitory Fund and World Trade Organization? and the existence of International NGOs as well as governmental organizations at the service of trans-national companies, the coordination between theses organizations to loot and increase wealth? Are millions of the poor in the world paying their health, families' safety as a price? Is there any growth of social movements and civil society organization that resists globalization and liberalization of market and trade? And what are its characteristics?
The book is available at Land Center for Human Rights
Address: 122 Al Jala St- Ramsis Twoer-Cairo
Tell/fax: 25750470
Email: lchr@lchr-eg.org, lchr@thewayout.net
Website : www.lchr-eg.org
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Name of the Book : Globalization and Culture(Homogeneous, Diversity, Identity, and Freedom)
Wrote by: Tom. G. Ballmer
Publisher: Fredrick Naoman Foundation- Cairo Office
Theme: the book comes to the conclusion that live cultures are changing, and change process gives cultures its own characteristics. Similarity of these cultures doesn't stem from being dissimilar to other cultures, but from being difference from itself throughout time, exactly like a person who grew up from childhood to manhood, but remains the same person. It seems that most observers in rich communities specify poverty as the major cultural factor in poor communities. This can be clear in some example, for instance, using cell phones in developed countries, or by the poor is not considered as robbery of others' culture, as far as it is a challenge to the arrogance of those have been trying to make the poor remain in their national communities like lizards in holes. Using cell phones by those individuals in talking to their friends , families, and their partners in business is an important and valuable thing and not a threat to their cultural identities. The right to merchandise for example is one of the basic rights, cultural arguments that support limitation of trade inside countries' territories can not be defended. Trade monopoly leads to the sustainability of poverty, not to the maintenance of culture. Therefore, trade monopoly should be fought in the name of culture in the first place, not in the name of economic efficiency, for live cultures flourish under freedom and wellbeing.
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Name of the Book : anti-terrorism law workshop
Prepared and edited by: Wael Tawfig
Publisher: Hisham Mubark Center for law
Theme: In the framework of its concern with new bills of law, focusing on those related to general rights, freedoms and international human rights conventions', Hisham Mubark Center for law has published this book as the first in a series named(Researches Series). The book is a review of studies and researches that presented at a workshop at " Egypt Judges club" on anti-terrorism bill of law supposed to be discussed at the parliament which will commence its sessions in October 2008, for passing this bill of law would result in great risk over human rights and general freedoms.
The latest constitutional amendments have incorporated new article(179), empowering anti- terrorism law with constitutional basis, an article makes an exceptional law constitutional, as such, represent a serious threat to democracy and human rights gains, and also to other constitutional articles( 41,44,45) by endowing the executive extra authorities on the account of freedoms and personal rights and diminishing judges role in applying justice.
The book is available for free at Hisham Mubarak Center for Law
1st Soq Al Tawfigia – fifth floor.
Telephone: 00202 25758908
Email: hmlc@link.net
Website: http://hmlc.katib.org
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Name of the Book :The Culture of the Protest
Author: Prof. Dr. Shahata el-Sayed Seiam
Publisher: Masr el- Arabia for Publishing & Distribution
Subject of the Book: The book comes in five chapters; review the circumstances that the culture of protest had emerged from imposing a phenomenon. Where he addresses the theory of authority and power factors, where the authority is one of the most important catalysts in distributing the social powers and their shares in life opportunities and fulfilling social needs, and its capacity to act accordingly. Beside its role in imposing a will of one party on the other through power, influence, effect and position, especially when this will-imposing comes through power and oppression. The author study in the second chapter the civil resistance, as a form of peaceful confrontation to regain rights. The book as well represent the experience of “Kefaya movement” as model in his third chapter about the civil community and culture of protest. Introduction about the spark of the Egyptian Movement for Change “Kefaya”, saying, the discourse of Kefaya which shows the protests made by a number of the community capacities like judges, faculty professors, laborers, poor, farmers, engineers, journalists, teachers, medicine doctors, lawyers, authors, and some marginal professions, and slum residents against the oppressive practices, and deteriorated conditions. These protests, had contributed in building a frameworks, and independent forms for different social powers against official institutions that back the ruling regime, and become a mechanism for despotism and corruption.
How to get the book:
19 Islam St. Hamamat Al Kobba, Zaiton, Cairo
Telefax: 225 622 68
Tel: 245 058 63
E-mail: masrelarbia@hotmail.com
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Name of the Book :So that you don’t get slapped on your back…!!
The Author and the Publisher: Omar Afifi
The book is about:
The former police officer “Omar Afifi” issued a book, in which he explains to the Egyptian citizen his rights when dealing with police officers and other security officials, and how to stop them from insulting and assaulting him.
He does this through a number of questions and answers, in which he clarifies for the ordinary citizen his rights and duties, and introduces him to a new range of terminologies; for example he distinguishes between an inquisition, a search warrant, and an ambush; he also identifies the people who are allowed to inspect an individual’s car, or even to give his wife a self-inspection, and he elucidates on how an individual can file a complaint against an officer, who has tortured him, or falsely accused him.
He explicates the rights of all people, from victims to arrested ones, at the police station, especially in relation to the use of force, or to the fabrication of charges against them. He ends his book by enlisting the various torture methods the police use against the accused, and includes the phone numbers of the different departments at the Ministry of Interior, which are dedicated to serving the public.
How to get it: Omar Afifi “the publisher” or Madbouly Mini-Bookstore
Address: 2, Dr.Taha Hussein street in Zamalek, Cairo
Or
(Madbouly’s) 45, Batal Ahmed Abdel Aziz street in Mohandessin, Cairo
Telephone: 37626010- 27355393
0106043882-0106043802
(Madbouly Bookstore) 33459574-33459575
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