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Letter
sent in support of the New Woman Research Center
July 18, 2003
URGENT
Minister of
Social Affairs and Insurance
Amina Muhammad El Guindi
Fax Number: + 20 2 3375390
E-mail : msi@idsc.gov.eg
Your Excellency:
We understand
that the application of New Woman Research Center, Egypt to establish
the New Woman Research Foundation has been rejected by the Egyptian
Ministry of Social Affairs.
The New Woman Research Foundation (formerly the Center) made every
effort to follow the regulations set by the new NGO Law 84/2002
and the requirements were met.
We were very disappointed to learn that this decision was based
upon a letter from the Security Directorate of Giza informing the
Ministry that "Security Authorities do not agree to the registration
of the above mentioned institution." It appears that the rejection
lacks a legal basis, and is intended to restrict the activities
of Egyptian civil society.
The New Woman Research Center, a feminist NGO has engaged in efforts
to promote women's human rights on local, national, regional and
international levels for nearly two decades. The Center has made
important contributions to the struggle to overcome all forms of
discrimination against women as part of the wider struggle for social
justice and democracy.
We believe that
the Egyptian government likewise supports the human struggle for
social justice and democracy but that the non-registration of this
organization sends the opposite message to national and international
observers.
We respectfully request that you consider reversing this decision
and rectify the application of improper criteria to Law 84.
Sincerely,
Dr. Sherifa
Zuhur
Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies
Cleveland State University and
Director, Institute for Middle Eastern,
Islamic, and Diasporic Studies
Dr. Sondra Hale
Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Board of Directors
Association for Middle East Women's Studies
(A MESA affiliate with 300+ scholars and those in
related fields)
Aisha - Arab
Women Forum
Regional Network of Organizations
Neila Benayad-Cherif, President
Rassemblement Contre la Hogra et
Pour les Droits des Algeriennes
(RACHDA)
Nadia Ait Zai,
Attorney and
President, CIDF, Algeria
Louisa Ait Hamou
University Lecturer, Algiers
Sana` Makhoul
Hala Kamal, Cairo University
Egypt
Aida Seif El
Dawla
Ain Shams University, Egypt
Suzan Fayyad,
El Nadim Center
Cairo, Egypt
Magda Adly,
El Nadim Center
Cairo Egypt
Basma Abdel
Aziz, El Nadim Center
Cairo, Egypt
Ragia El Gerzawy,
El Nadim Center
Cairo, Egypt
Adel Wassily,
Engineer
Cairo, Egypt
Gasser Abdel
Razek, Human Rights Activist
Cairo, Egypt
Seham Abd el
Salam
Independent Anthropologist
Cairo, Egypt
Barbara Ibrahim
Cairo, Egypt
Nehad Abu Komsan
Executive Director
Egyptian Center for Women's Rights
Al Manial, Roda Island, Cairo
Shereen Abou
el Naga
Associate Professor
Cairo University
James Norman
Cairo, Egypt
Azza Soliman
Center for Egyptian Women's
Legal Assistance
Dr. Nada Elia,
Independent Scholar/writer
Sulafa Sahel
Khalid Musa
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian,
Ph.D
Faculty of Law & School of Social Work
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Visiting Professor
UCLA, Faculty of Law &
the Center for the Study of Women
Adjunct Professor- USC
Dr. Mordechai
Kedar, Lecturer
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
Bar-Ilan University
Eman Nimri
Director
Queen Zein Al Sharaf
Institute for Development, Jordan
Nadia El Cheikh
American University of Beirut
Lebanon
Rosemary Sayigh
Lebanon
Marwa Sultan
Dr. Faysal El-Kak
Lebanese Family Planning Association &
American University of Beirut
Lebanon
Dr. Susan Schaefer
Davis
Visiting Professor of Anthropology
Al Akhawayn University
Ifrane, Morocco
Najia Elboudali
Civic Synergy, Morocco
Shazia Premjee
Aahung, Pakistan
Prabha Khosla
Women's Network for Sustainability
Sama Aweidah,
Women's Studies Center
Jerusalem
Lisa Taraki
Associate Professor of Sociology
Birzeit University, Palestine
Islah Jad
Bir Zeit University
Hussein Mohiedin,
Lawyer and
former Coordinator of Sudanese Organization
against Torture
Eatima Babiker,
lawyer
Dr. Ihsan Fagiri,
Medical Doctor, Sudan
Ansar Fayyazuddin
Associate Professor of Physics
Stockholm University,
Stockholm, Sweden
Safia Farhat, ATFD,
Tunis
Dalenda Largueche
Professor of History
University of Tunis I
M. Cânân
Arin
Lawyer, Istanbul, Turkey
Ayse Berktay, writer
Coordinator of the Peace
Initiative of Turkey &
Women for Women's Human Rights/
New Ways
Istanbul, Turkey
Pinar Ilkkaracan
Women for Women's Human Rights/
New Ways
Istanbul, Turkey
Karin Ronge
Women for Women's Human Rights/
New Ways
Istanbul, Turkey
Ela Anil
Women for Women's Human Rights/
New Ways
Istanbul, Turkey
Liz Amado
Women for Women's Human Rights/
New Ways
Istanbul, Turkey
Guven Ture
Women for Women's Human Rights/
New Ways
Istanbul, Turkey
Semsa Ozar
Turkey
Suad Al Gedsi
The Women's Forum for
Research and Training
Yemen
Mag. Arch. Sally
Bibawy
architect
Lomographic Society
Vienna, Austria
Renatho Jose
da Costa
Brazil
Sima Aprahamian,
Ph.D.
Simone de Beauvoir Institute
Concordia University
Montreal (Quebec)
Alexandra Pollock,
MA
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
( now retired)
Azza Anis, PhD
French Department
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Dr. Kathleen R. Kamphoefner
International College of Beijing
China Agricultural University, East Campus
Beijing, China
Les Pénélopes
21, rue Voltaire
Paris, France
Dr. Nabil Bushnaq
IBN RUSHD Org
Fund for Freedom of Thought
Germany
Daniela Fromberg
Fine Artist, Germany
Dr. Syrinx von
Hees
Orientalisches Seminar
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
Bonn, Germany
Prabha Khosla
Women's Network for Sustainability
Prof. Paola
Manduca
Genetics, DOBIG
University of Genoa
Genova, Italy
Anna Draghetti
Women in Black in Bologna, Italy
Via L. Berti 20-40131
Bologna-Italy
Dr. Caterina
Bori
Researcher
Institute for Religious Sciences
Trento, Italy
A. Sturkenboom,
MOCAKAUK - Social Critical
Archive of the Middle East, Central
Asia and the Caucasus
The Netherlands
Gunvor Mejdell
Ass. Professor
Institutt for østeuropeiske og
orientalske studier
Oslo, Norway
Tadashi Okanouchi
Professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
Nadje Al-Ali
Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies
University of Exeter, UK
Nada Mustafa
Ali, PhD
Sudan Women Alliance
51 Walerand Rd.
Lewisham
John Voll
Georgetown University
Joel Beinin
Professor of Middle East History
Department of History,
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Michael M.J.
Fischer, Professor of Anthropology
and Science and Technology Studies,
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Afsaneh Najmabadi
History and Women's Studies
Harvard University
Dr. Ayad al-Qazzaz
California State University, Sacramento
Suad Joseph
Professor of Anthropology
and Women and Gender Studies
University of California, Davis
Michel S. Moushabeck
Publisher/Editor
Interlink Publishing
Northampton, MA
Professor Evelyne
Accad
University of Illinois
May Saikaly,
D. Phil
Associate Professor
Dept. of Near Eastern and Asian Studies
Wayne State University
Miriam Cooke
Duke University
Professor Tamara
Sonn
College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia USA
Elizabeth A.
Say, Ph.D.
Associate Dean
College of Humanities
California State University, Northridge
Katherine Callen
King
Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics
University of California at Los Angeles
Brandi Jones-Sampson
Technical Assistant, MIS
Rita Zuwayda
Caravan-Serai, Seattle, Washington
Magda Ahmed,
Refugee and Immigrant Health Program
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Elaine C.
Hagopian
Professor Emerita of Sociology
Simmons College, Boston
Susan Rivo
Mary Ann Tetreault
Trinity University
San Antonio, TX
Rihab Kassatly
Bagnole,
Adjunct Professor of
History of Photography,
School of Fine Art
Ohio University, Athens, OH
Amal Sedky Winter,
Ph.D.
Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Elizabeth Robinson
Broadcaster, KCSB, University of California, Santa Barbara
And Treasurer, AMARC (World Association of Community
Radio Broadcasters)
Natasha Zuhur
Student, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Dr. Arnold Krupat
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, NY 10708
Dorothea Kahena
Viale
PhD student - Women's Studies in Religion
Claremont Graduate University
Rita Faulkner
Parkland College
Karl R. Schaefer
Cowles Library
Drake University
Sherry Vatter
Department of History
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, California
Zaineb Istrabadi,
Ph.D.
Indiana University
Michael Kevane
Department of Economics
Santa Clara University
Ellen McLarney
Assistant Professor of the Practice
Duke University
Carmel Kooros,
Instructor
Middle East Politics, New School University and
Consultant, Evaluation and Communications Research
Dept. of Public Information, United Nations
Dr. V. Spike
Peterson
Associate Professor,
University of Arizona
Nancy W. Jabbra,
Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Women's Studies
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, California
Nayereh Tohidi
Associate Professor, Women's Studies
California State University, Northridge
Regula Modlich,
MES
Managing Editor
Women & Environments International Magazine
Ellen Gruenbaum
Professor
California State University, Fresno
Janet Afary
Purdue University
Lara Deeb
Department of Anthropology
Emory University
Francine Russelle,
artist
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Nadine Naber
UCSC, California
Ellen Fleischmann
Assistant Professor
Department of History
University of Dayton
Nandini Gunewardena
University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Barbara
C. Aswad
Professor Emeritus
Dept of Anthropology
Wayne State University
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