The second lecture was given by Mr. Nabil Abdel-Fattah, director of the Al-Ahram Center for Sociological Studies, on the situation of the revolution in Egypt. Calls for the overthrow of the regime began to appear the night Mubarak was overthrown in Egypt. All this was made possible by Syrians outside the country.
He said that the dilemma for Turkey is how to help the people of the region while supporting its regional neighbors. Fares explained that the soldiers are expected to help protect the uprising and lead the people to build the basement of the new national army. Iran has said from the beginning that it will not recognize the existence of Israel and that the future of the Palestinian people should be determined through a referendum in the region.
Koji Horinuki, Research Associate, JIME Center, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ), presented on the effect of the Arab Spring in the Gulf countries. Akifumi Ikeda, professor, Toyo Eiwa University, commented on the Israeli view of the Arab sources. He said that he was impressed by the decision of the Tunisian people not to allow fraud in the.
Kisaichi concluded by again thanking each participant and questioning what would become of the region in the future.
Closed Workshop
The Arab Springs and the Future of the Middle East
Turkish Policy towards the Arab Spring: Is the Davutoğlu Doctrine at the End of the Cliff?
Summary
One of the agenda items that Egypt's new ruling Islamist parties must deal with is sectarian conflict. Coptic Pope Shenouda III has always supported the Mubarak regime and worked to ensure that the regime protected the security of its people. Miyokawa presented a table detailing major sectarian conflicts before and after Egypt's revolution, noting that conflicts occurred more frequently after the Mubarak era than before, especially in the southeastern part of the country.
Commenting on the relationship between the Copts and previous regimes in Egypt, he explained that the group had not been very active in the Egyptian political sphere since it failed to form a Coptic political party in the late 1950s. He noted that had there not been cooperation with lower-level members of the unions, the protests would likely have been suppressed by police. When asked about the demographics of the revolution, he suggested that it could be a middle-class revolution.
Challenges facing the revolution in relation to the external teams include the fact that most are outside the country and many have never been to Syria in the first place. It is crucial that the new government in Yemen seeks to meet the demands of the southern movement as it builds a new government to avoid secession. While they will discuss the issues of the southern movement, the national government has said that the discussion will take place within the framework of maintaining national unity, stability and security.
It is expected that if the government can meet the demands of the South Yemenis to the extent that the population is satisfied, then separation is unlikely to occur. The floor was open for questions, and a number of people asked the three. Fares said this was not the aim of the uprising, and that it was hoped that after the Syrian revolution succeeded, those in the Free Syrian Army would return to the ranks of the national army.
Fares suggested that Syria was one of Russia's last power bases in the Middle East, and that the country wanted to protect it as such. However, he noted that press freedom had been demanded in the country for a long time and that the regime was therefore used to protesting against this. With the possible positive shift of Egyptian policy towards Hamas after the Arab Spring, many Palestinians have gained more confidence in the party.
In the case of Syria, Turkey again encouraged Syria to respond to public demands for reforms. He noted that the Japanese people will continue to be supportive of the region and that the two days of the symposium and seminar have been a good starting point for dialogue to that end.
Egypt
Tunisia
ムハンマド・サーリフ・ウムリー / Mohamed-Salah Omri
Yemen
ムハンマド・アル＝アスアディー / Mohammed Al-Asaadi
Syria
ウバイダ・ファーリス / Obaida Fares
ナーズィム・ムティーミト / Nadhem Mtimet
ウマル・ブーイースィー / Omar Bouissi
At this sit-in he was among the organizing staff charged with coordinating with the mass media. After the success of the sit-in, especially with the election of the Constitutional Assembly, which was our main demand, I took part in various civil society activities. Now he is an independent civil society activist and founded an association dedicated to the development of human rights and political consciousness.
Japan
Oriental History) from Keio University in Tokyo, HOSAKA became a special assistant to the Japanese embassies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Since then, he has held various positions in the field of Middle Eastern studies, including Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute of Japan and Professor at the International Center for Humanities, Kinki University, Osaka. He is currently Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director of JIME Center, Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ) and Visiting Professor at Waseda University.
堀拔功二 / HORINUKI Koji
Akifumi Ikeda is Professor of International Politics and currently Vice President of Toyo-Eiwa University in Yokohama, Japan. He graduated from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, and studied at the British universities of Stirling and Oxford before joining the Institute of Developing Economies in Tokyo in 1980 as a research fellow. During his tenure at the institute, he was admitted as a Visiting Fellow (1984-86) and Visiting Senior Fellow (1995-96) at the Truman Institute of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, as well as a senior associate member at St. Antony's College, Oxford.
He has published widely on topics of contemporary Middle East politics, on the Arab-Israeli conflicts and the peace process in particular. Problems of the State of Israel: Peace, Nation and Democracy' 1994 I.D.E, 'Quest for Israeli-Palestinian Settlement: West Bank and Gaza in the Scope of Peace Process' 1990 I.D.E,.
岩崎 えり奈 / IWASAKI Erina
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, and completed her PhD in the Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University. The Comparative Study of Kinship Structure in Egyptian Villages”, Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies, Vol.26, N.1, 2007; “Regional Differences in Returns to Education in Rural Tunisia,” Proceedings of the Tunisia-Japan Symposium on Society, Science and Technology (TJASSST with Kenichi Kashiwagi).
At the same time, he was Assistant Ambassador for Political Affairs and Public Relations at the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in Japan.
NIHU地域研究センター研究員 2007年9月から2011年3月までエジプト・カイロで現地調査を実施 コプト教の司教、神父、人権活動家らにインタビューを実施、現代エジプトにおけるコプト教徒の国民統合に関心 政治運動の観点からそして政治思想。
I am interested in Egyptian nationalist thoughts and the transition of Egyptian national identities throughout the 20th century. Eiji Nagasawa is a professor in the Department of West Asian Studies at the Institute for Advanced Asian Studies, University of Tokyo. He was engaged in research in regional studies of the Middle East with an emphasis on the socio-economic history of modern Egypt.
From April 1998 to March 1999, he was director of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science Research Center in Cairo; the Deputy Director of the Institute from April 2008 to March 2009; the President of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies from April 2009 to March 2011. His major works in English are Modern Egypt through Japanese Eyes, A Study on Intellectual and Socio-economic Aspects of Egyptian.
