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36 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 424 (2014-2015)
Egyptian Women in Transitional Justice after Revolution

handle is hein.journals/worts36 and id is 442 raw text is: EGYPTIAN WOMEN IN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AFTER REVOLUTION Eman Muhammad Rashwan* I. INTRODUCTION Transitional justice refers to the short-term and often temporary judicial and non-judicial mechanisms and processes that address the legacy of human rights abuses and violence during a society's transition away from conflict or authoritarian rule. 1 That process aims to achieving justice in societies leaving conflict or dictatorship, through different mechanisms. On January 25, 2011, a great revolution started all over Egypt. Her citizens demanded good living, freedom and human dignity. These slogans turned in few days into slogans demanding an end to the rule of President Hosni Mubarak. For thirty years, Mubarak's rule was punctuated by corruption, a poor economy and deterioration in all state authorities, especially during the last ten years of his reign.2 * Eman Muhammad Rashwan is an Assistant Lecturer of Public Law at Cairo University, Faculty of Law. She graduated from English Section of the same school in 2011 with very good with honors degree, in 2012 she was appointed as a Research Assistant of Public Law, and got her first Masters Degree in Public Law and Administrative Sciences in 2013 also from the same institution. She was selected for Middle East Rule of Law Award of Open Society Foundations to seek Masters Degree in USA. Accordingly, in 2014, she obtained her LL.M. in Law and Government with Concentration on Constitutional & Civil Rights from American University, Washington College of Law, USA. Washington DC. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Constitutional Law in Cairo University, Faculty of Law, her dissertation topic is Constitutional Reforms After Arab Spring; Case Study of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen Besides her official job, she undertakes number of volunteering positions, among them her work as General Coordinator of Moot Courts and Legal Competitions Unit, Moreover assisting and advising the faculty of law for issues of International Cooperation and Administrative Reform. She organized and participated in number of conferences in & outside Egypt. She is a member of the first class of Presidential Leadership Program for youth. To my family to whom I owe everything, and to Cairo University Law School that is my first home and will always be. Research for this article was supported in part by the Middle East Rule of Law Program, which is funded and administered by the Open Society Institute (OSI). The opinions expressed herein are the author's own and do not necessarily express the views of OSI. ' Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, et al., Transitional Justice and Reconciliation, 1, available at https://tavaana.org/sites/default/files/Transition.pdf. 2 Joshua Stacher, Countries at the Crossroads, 1, available at http://www.refworld.org/docid/4ecba64fc.html.

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