Empowerment requires a transformation from victim to agent (Kieffer, 1984). In order to take a critical role in policy formulation and implementation, women who seek to be empowered must learn to critically analyse the policies that shape their social world. This paper tries to describe the link between critical policy analysis and the empowerment of Egyptian women in sport. It argues that sometimes in some political environments, policymakers are not likely to welcome critical policy analysis whether of sport or anything else. It also argues that the structures of sport in Egypt reproduce the status quo because it grants power to those who already have power (e.g. gov't officials and sponsors).

Techniques of critical policy analysis provide an adjunct tool because they furnish interpretations and critiques that can be used by undervalued or excluded policy communities to challenge debilitating policy assumptions (Chalip, 1996). Two key procedures for critical interpretation are illustrated through application to the discourse guiding the formulation of Egypt's sport policies.

The paper will also illustrate the methods of critical policy analysis through the at~Dlication of attribution critiaue to Egyptian sport Policy discourse.