The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP), a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization, is dedicated to understanding and supporting Middle Eastern countries undergoing democratic transitions and committed to informing U.S. and international policymakers and the public of developments in these countries.
There is an ample supply of information and expertise on Middle Eastern politics in Western think tanks, media and academia. However, there is a dearth of knowledge about, and little understanding of, how regional political changes affect the everyday lives and needs of the region’s people. The world has celebrated the rising stars of the “Arab Spring” revolutions and appreciated their contributions to bringing about change, but many others remain unrecognized, their grievances marginalized or ignored. With the support of our deeply knowledgeable and extensive network of actors in the region, TIMEP is committed to having these marginalized voices be acknowledged. The analyses provided by TIMEP will particularly aim to connect those outside the region with local knowledge and perspectives. By harnessing the extensive regional expertise of its staff—along with that of its expansive network of on-the-ground experts and activists—TIMEP will contribute significantly to the national dialogue concerning the Middle East and thereby promote well-founded policy in the region. Founded in February 2013, TIMEP operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Publications:
- Majority Perceptions of Minor Feelings in Egypt August 12, 2022
- When Unity Discourse Dismisses Systemic Sectarianism in Egypt August 11, 2022
- When Unity Discourse Dismisses Systemic Sectarianism in Egypt August 11, 2022
- The Politics of Sectarianism and Repentance in Egyptian Prisons: Notes from a Coptic Khidma August 5, 2022
- Abuse of Travel Bans in Egypt: Joint Report by TIMEP and the Freedom Initiative July 5, 2022
- Understanding Egypt’s Economic Troubles June 16, 2022
- Egypt’s Next IMF Loan: How to Avoid the Failures of the Past Six Years June 7, 2022
- The Egyptian Political Dialogue: Renewed Hope or Mere Façade? May 19, 2022
- Cyber Violence and Women in Egypt March 31, 2022
- Q&A with Lobna Darwish: Women in Egypt March 25, 2022
- A Homeland Lives Within Us, But We Cannot Live in It: Egyptian Organizing and Activism from Exile March 23, 2022
- Ebb of Justice: Egypt’s Constitutional Court as Veto Player in International Disputes February 23, 2022
- Renewed Arbitrary Detention: Keeping the Egyptian Opposition in Detention January 31, 2022
- Transgender Policy in Egypt: Murder by Medical Bureaucracy January 18, 2022
- Beyond Sectarian Violence: Socioeconomic Challenges for Copts in Egypt January 12, 2022
- Egypt’s Religious Minorities: The Legal Framework January 6, 2022
- The Fundamental Rights of Baha’is: An Excellent Opportunity to Expand Religious Freedom in Egypt December 30, 2021
- Atheists in Egypt: Life on the Edge of Civil Death December 29, 2021
- What’s Behind the Partnership between Russia and Egypt? December 17, 2021
- Sexual Harassment Laws in Egypt: Does Stricter Mean More Effective? December 14, 2021
- Egypt Lifted its State of Emergency: What Now? November 11, 2021
- The Transformative Politics and Memory of the Maspero Massacre October 9, 2021
- Marital Rape in Egypt: Between Legal Gaps and Social Views September 7, 2021
- Dual Threats: Water Scarcity and Rising Sea Levels in Egypt August 20, 2021
- NDP to NFP: Rebranding or Restructuring Parliamentary Life in Egypt? June 17, 2021
- North Sinai’s Information Blackout June 4, 2021
- Egypt’s Officials Don’t See Unrecognized Religious Minorities June 2, 2021
- Music in Egypt in the Last Decade: Hit and Run with the Authorities May 3, 2021
- Lawyering for Change: Q&A with Ahmed Ezzat on Egypt April 19, 2021
- Egyptian Lawyers: A Story of Continued Resistance April 6, 2021
- Egypt’s Elections and Parliament: Old Habits Never Die March 26, 2021
- Indefinite Pretrial Detention in Egypt: Rotation and Detention Pending Multiple Cases February 9, 2021
- Women on the Frontline: The Anti-Sexual Violence Movement in Egypt Ten Years After the Revolution February 8, 2021
- Organizing in Egypt: Legislative Fact Sheet February 4, 2021
- Egypt’s Digital Foreign Policy February 2, 2021
- From Free Space to a Tool of Oppression: What Happened to the Internet Since the Arab Spring? December 20, 2020
- Egypt’s Unprecedented Crackdown on EIPR November 20, 2020
- Sweeping victory of Nation’s Future Party Shows Return to Pre-2011 Electoral Politics November 19, 2020
- When Private Isn’t Private: The Blurred Lines of Regime-Owned Enterprises in Egypt October 9, 2020
- Disinformation Campaign Targets Rape Victim and Witnesses in Egypt October 8, 2020
- Her Honor Setting the Bar: Fighting for Equality in Egypt’s Judiciary October 2, 2020
- Targeting the last line of defense: Egypt’s attacks against lawyers September 23, 2020
- Religious Institutions under the Pressure of COVID-19: Traditional Policies and Delayed Crisis Management September 10, 2020
- Egypt’s TikTok Crackdown and “Family Values” August 14, 2020
- Legal Guide: Effective Communication Between the Lawyer and Defendant in Egypt July 29, 2020
- Egyptian Doctors in the State’s Eyes: Rhetoric Versus Reality July 9, 2020
- How has Egypt navigated the ongoing global economic fallout as a result of COVID-19? May 11, 2020
- Misinfo, Disinfo, and Fake News in Egypt’s COVID-19 “Infodemic” May 8, 2020
- Egypt’s Empowered Prosecution and Threats to Fair Trial Guarantees May 4, 2020
- The Role of Egypt’s Lawyers Amid State Crackdown and Prosecutorial Repression May 4, 2020
- The Egyptian Prosecution: A Fact Sheet May 4, 2020
- The Controversy of Banning Niqab in Public in Egypt April 28, 2020
- Fragile Fundamentals Under the Strain of Global Crisis: Egypt’s Economy During and After COVID-19 April 14, 2020
- While GERD’s Reservoir Remains Empty, Tensions Rise in Dam Dispute March 6, 2020
- Personal Status of Copts: Crisis Made by State and Church February 12, 2020
- Global tech and domestic tactics: Egypt’s multifaceted regime of information controls January 31, 2020
- Whose Lives Matter? An Equivocal Approach to American Detainees January 29, 2020
- Hardened and Brittle: Egypt’s Authoritarian Fragility December 18, 2019
- Egypt Parliament Watch Session IV Report: October 2018 – July 2019 December 13, 2019
- Ramy Kamel, Mada Masr, and Seeing Coptic Issues as Civil Liberties in Egypt December 12, 2019
- “Freedom for the Black Gown”: Egypt’s Crackdown on Lawyers and the Rule of Law December 10, 2019
- How the Egyptian State Codifies Media Censorship December 9, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam December 9, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: China’s Role in Egypt’s Economy November 21, 2019
- Obstacles to Renewing Religious Discourse in Egypt: Reasons and Results October 31, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Use of Surveillance Technology in MENA October 23, 2019
- “Stuck” in Transit: Systematic limitations on the integration of Syrian refugees in Egypt and its impact on mental health and well-being October 18, 2019
- TIMEP and Law Society: Joint UPR Advocacy Fact Sheet October 15, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Detention Conditions in Egypt August 29, 2019
- Egypt’s Economy: Neither Collapsing nor Thriving August 20, 2019
- Egypt’s Online Repression Thwarts Both Growth and Democracy August 16, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Church Construction Law July 29, 2019
- False Hopes and False Starts: Egypt’s Efforts to Modernize its Military Industry July 25, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: LGBTQ Human Rights in Egypt July 17, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Draft NGO Law of 2019 July 9, 2019
- Short-Term Stability in Exchange for Long-Term Fragility July 3, 2019
- The Reality of Church Construction in Egypt June 27, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Bankruptcy Law June 20, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Executions and the Death Penalty June 17, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Accountability in US Arms Transfers June 10, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Industrial Licensing Law May 30, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Press Freedom in Egypt May 24, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: VAT Law May 9, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Egypt’s 2019 Constitutional Referendum April 30, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: 2019 Constitutional Amendments April 17, 2019
- Probation as Compounded Punishment in Egypt April 10, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Investment Law April 5, 2019
- Egypt’s Constitutional Amendments: A Nail in the Coffin of Political Pluralism April 4, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Terrorist Entities Law April 4, 2019
- Infographic: Reparations in the Wake of Egypt’s Revolution April 3, 2019
- Joint Stakeholder Submission to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review – EGYPT March 29, 2019
- Doubling Down on Dictatorship February 25, 2019
- Copts, Church, and State: Egypt’s Christians Frustrated with Lack of Protection February 15, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Uber and Careem Law February 12, 2019
- Superficial Gains, but No Lasting Success in Sinai 2018 February 7, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Draft Constitutional Amendments February 7, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Potential Changes to Egypt’s Presidential Term Limits February 5, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: The Terrorist Funds Law January 31, 2019
- Egypt’s Sectarian Committee to Combat Sectarianism January 28, 2019
- Egyptian Authorities are Denigrating the Revolution January 24, 2019
- TIMEP Brief: Cybercrime Law December 19, 2018
- Right to Housing in Egypt December 17, 2018
- Al-Azhar’s Role in Freedom of Belief in Egypt December 7, 2018
- How Egypt Deals with Informal Areas December 4, 2018
- Sinai Tribes in Egypt’s War on Terror November 28, 2018
- Five Years of Egypt’s War on Terror July 31, 2018
- Egypt’s Authorities Co-opt Transitional Justice in New Draft Law July 18, 2018
- Egypt’s New Media Regulations: Legislating State Control Over Information July 12, 2018
- Expert Q&A on Egypt’s Price Hikes July 6, 2018
- Egypt’s Party Consolidation and the Stifling of Pluralism June 25, 2018
- From Community Participation to Forced Eviction in the Maspero Triangle June 18, 2018
- TIMEP Brief: Freedom of Association June 11, 2018
- What Egypt’s FY18 Aid Package Means for Egypt-U.S. Relations April 9, 2018
- Raising the Stakes: Implications of a Second Sisi Term March 21, 2018
- In the Era of “Fake News,” Egypt Monitors and Silences March 16, 2018
- TIMEP Brief: Right to Due Process in Egypt February 27, 2018
- Needed Adjustments Unlikely in U.S. Aid to Egypt December 22, 2017
- Egypt Charts Its Own Course, Regardless of Patronage December 12, 2017
- SPECIAL BRIEFING: Attack at Rawda Mosque December 7, 2017
- Egypt’s Diversifying Insurgency December 1, 2017
- Islamic State in Egypt December 1, 2017
- Social Stigma Enables Egypt’s Attack on LGBT Community October 30, 2017
- SPECIAL BRIEFING: Bahariya Oasis Incident October 30, 2017
- Nubians, the Egyptian State, and the Right of Return October 19, 2017
- TIMEP Brief: Protest and Freedom of Assembly in Egypt October 18, 2017
- The Right to Citizenship in Egypt’s Age of Terror October 2, 2017
- Why Egypt Must Work Toward Abolishing the Death Penalty September 19, 2017
- TIMEP Brief: Torture in Egyptian Detention Centers September 15, 2017
- U.S. Aid to Egypt Should Hinge on Rule of Law September 13, 2017
- SPECIAL BRIEFING: Attacks Against Security Forces Continue in Egypt’s North Sinai September 11, 2017
- Egypt’s Ban on Church Trips Sends Dangerous Message September 1, 2017
- Egypt Softens Tone in U.S. Relations August 30, 2017
- SPECIAL BRIEFING: Developments in U.S.-Egypt Aid Relationship August 24, 2017
- Tiran and Sanafir: Developments, Dynamics, and Implications August 9, 2017
- Measuring Success in Egypt’s War on Terror July 27, 2017
- Egypt’s Ad Campaign for Investment Law Glosses over Economic Challenges July 20, 2017
- Egypt’s Payroll Is Fine, but Its Revenues Are Too Low July 5, 2017
- How the Egyptian Church Secures Itself June 21, 2017
- TIMEP Brief: European Arms Sales to Egypt June 13, 2017
- Regional Agreements and Authoritarian Measures in Egypt June 2, 2017
- A Monetary Theory of Everything: “Printing” New Money and Egypt’s Economic Ills May 30, 2017
- A Fragile Egypt in a Changing World: Six Years After the Revolution May 25, 2017
- SPECIAL BRIEFING: Omnibus Spending Bill Reflects Changes to U.S. Assistance to Egypt May 11, 2017
- TIMEP Brief: Press Freedom in Egypt May 3, 2017
- SPECIAL BRIEFING: Leaked Video of Extrajudicial Killings Connected to Military April 21, 2017
- SPECIAL BRIEFING: Palm Sunday Bombings April 21, 2017
- The Dueling Narratives of the Islamic State and the Egyptian State April 19, 2017
- Understanding Egyptian Policy Toward Libya March 28, 2017
- How the Egyptian Government Endorses Torture March 22, 2017
- FDI Isn’t Enough for Egypt March 13, 2017
- Mubarak’s Acquittal and the State of Transitional Justice in Egypt March 10, 2017
- Expert Q&A on Egypt’s Bread Protests March 9, 2017
- SPECIAL BRIEFING: Killings in Arish: Rising Sectarianism in Sinai March 1, 2017
- Blocking the Defenders: Egypt’s Closure of El Nadeem February 11, 2017
- Bricks in the Wall: El Nadeem, the NGO Law, and Egypt’s Crackdown February 10, 2017
- Women and Quotas in Egypt’s Parliament January 5, 2017
- If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going: A Guide to Egypt’s Free Float November 4, 2016
- On Rashid, Egypt’s Latest Mediterranean Tragedy October 19, 2016
- Sink or Swim: Egypt’s Anticipated Currency Float October 3, 2016
- Standing in Agreement: Egypt’s Parliament Risks Becoming Rubber Stamp September 9, 2016
- FY17 Tweaks to Egypt Aid Fall Short of Real Change August 25, 2016
- Why Is Egypt Amending Its Protest Law Now? August 16, 2016
- Egypt’s National Council for Women: A Substitute for Civil Society? July 15, 2016
- Egypt’s Mainland Terrorism Landscape June 7, 2016
- The Struggle in Egypt’s Press Syndicate May 26, 2016
- Questioning Egypt’s Golden Era May 23, 2016
- Who Enforces Egypt’s Laws? May 16, 2016
- Transitional Justice in Egypt: A Challenge and an Opportunity May 14, 2016
- Egyptian Political Parties and the Civil Society Crisis May 10, 2016
- Tiran, Sanafir, and the Island of Executive Power in Egypt April 21, 2016
- Egypt’s Unenviable Economy April 7, 2016
- The real source of Egypt’s dollar crisis is scarcity. Devaluation isn’t enough. March 21, 2016
- In Egypt, Journalism is a Crime March 16, 2016
- The Struggle in the Egyptian Medical Syndicate March 2, 2016
- Unmet Demands, Tenuous Stability January 25, 2016
- The Egyptian Parliament’s First Task January 9, 2016
- Sexuality Education: Egypt’s Missed Opportunity December 18, 2015
- Torture to Death in Egypt’s Police Stations December 10, 2015
- Egypt Needs a Comprehensive Approach to Terrorism November 16, 2015
- Egypt’s Rising Security Threat November 15, 2015
- Forced Disappearances Spike in Egypt November 9, 2015
- Breaking News and Inconsistent Media Standards in Egypt September 18, 2015
- Revolutionary Politics and the Trap of Populist Temptation: Thoughts on the Egyptian Left, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Revolution September 4, 2015
- Tracking Egypt’s Extraparliamentary Laws August 12, 2015
- Egypt signs Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement: A Good Idea on Paper? July 7, 2015
- Assault in Sheikh Zuweid: A turning point in Egypt’s fight against terrorism July 2, 2015
- Decision Making in Egypt: What Has Changed Since Mubarak? June 16, 2015
- Radical Maximum Wage in Egypt: Who Pays the Bill? April 21, 2015
- Egypt Responds to the Beheading of Copts by IS in Libya March 28, 2015
- What the Economic Conference Got Right, and Wrong, in Sharm el-Sheikh: The Scorecard March 25, 2015
- How Egyptian Mainstream Media Cover the War on Terror March 23, 2015
- What Egypt Should Realistically Expect from the Economic Development Conference March 13, 2015
- Egypt’s Elections on Pause March 6, 2015
- Policing Football in Times of Exception February 24, 2015
- The Menace of Collective Punishment and Lack of Due Diligence in Egypt February 11, 2015
- Egypt’s Long Walk to Despotism January 21, 2015