Sami Abdelhalim SAEED
Sami Abdelhalim Saeed continues our symposium on Francesco Biago’s book, Constitution-Building After the Arab Spring, with a case study of Sudan. Echoing Biagi, Saeed argues that the 2019 Constitutional Charter was undermined by the military from the outset.
Mohamed ARAFA
In this new symposium post, Mohamed Arafa applies Biagi’s framework to analyse Egypt’s constitutional evolution and offers normative recommendations for future Egyptian constitutional reform.
Tamara El KHOURY
Tamara El Khoury continues our symposium on Francesco Biagi’s recent book ‘Constitution-Building After the Arab Spring: A Comparative Perspective’ by asking when constitutional courts constrain political power, and when their creation instead legitimates the settlement they operate within.
Feisal Amin AL-ISTRABADI
Ambassador Feisal Amin al-Istrabardi considers the efficacy of early constitution-drafting efforts in democratising states.
Alemayehu Fentaw WELDEMARIAM
Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam opens our symposium on Francesco Biagi’s recent book ‘Constitution-Building After the Arab Spring: A Comparative Perspective’ by reflecting on its central arguments and the questions left open in the decades since the revolution altered the constitutional structures of several Arab countries.




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Johannes SOCHER
Johannes Socher examines external support to constitution-building in Africa, drawing on the engagement of German actors to consider different forms of constitutional assistance and the factors shaping their effectiveness.