Kifaya
Kifaya ( Arabic كفاية, DMG Kifāya ; also Kifaja and Kefaya ; [keˈfæːjæ] ; actually el-Haraka el-masriyya min agl et-taghyir /الحركة المصرية من أجل التغيير / al-ḥaraka al-miṣrīya min aǧl at-taġyīr ) is a grassroots political movement in Egypt . The movement was based on a campaign in the Egyptian capital Cairo in 2004 for a direct election of the Egyptian presidential office, which at that time had been Muhammad Husni Mubarak for 23 years . One of their slogans was "Kifaya" ( Egyptian-Arabic : "It is enough"), which refers to the long term in office of the Egyptian President Muhammad Husni Mubarak. The movement is supported by a broad alliance that includes left-wing and commoners, seculars and members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The well-known Egyptian writer Ala al-Aswani is the spokesman .
In December 2004, the movement held the first demonstration during the Mubarak period calling for an end to the regime. On April 27, 2005 , among other things , the group continued to demonstrate in 15 different cities, with 1200 participants in Luxor alone and 500 in Cairo. According to various sources, some of them were beaten and 45 to over 75 people were temporarily arrested. Slogans such as “End corruption ” and “Down with Mubarak” were heard at the meetings after the president had declared the previous evening that he had not yet decided whether he would run again in the upcoming presidential elections.
After Mubarak was officially re-elected in September 2005 with 88.6 percent of the vote (the election is viewed as rigged) and the reprisals against the movement continued, the movement lost its importance in the following years. However, it is considered an essential precursor of the revolution in Egypt in 2011 .
Web links
- English site of the Kifaya movement
- “We need a new Arab project” - Interview with Abd al-Halim Qandil (interview by Werner Pirker), Junge Welt, November 19, 2005
- How enough is enough? - Yesterday, all across the country, writes Jailan Halawi, hundreds of Kifaya demonstrators were stopped in their tracks , in: Al-Ahram Weekly, Issue No. 740, April 28 - May 4, 2005
- "Kifaya" in Egypt , Washington Post, March 15, 2005
- Blog entry by an opposition Egyptian woman about Kifaja, Kifaya: Asking the Right Questions , April 30, 2005
- Egypt Elections: The Egyptian Movement for Change (Kifaya )
Individual evidence
- ↑ "This will be Egypt's rebirth". The Egyptian bestselling author Alaa al-Aswani , Deutschlandfunk , February 1, 2011
- ↑ From the blogosphere to the street the role of social media in the egyptian uprising , Jadaliyya - Arab Studies Institute, February 9, 2011