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Egypt’s Constitutional Court Amendments: The International System On Its Own Terms

2021CarnegieDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptJudicial AffairsMai El-SadanyPaperYasmin Omar
July 12, 2021 14:16 pm
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Source: Carnegie Author(s): MAI EL-SADANY and YASMIN OMAR Original Link: https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/84941 New amendments to the law governing Egypt’s highest court are the latest in a series of steps intended to eat away at the international system; however, they threaten to further isolate the country and insert its judiciary into contentious foreign relations. Read more at original...

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GERD dispute goes to the UN, but a resolution remains elusive

2021EgyptMiddle East InstituteMirette F. Mabrouk Mirette F. Mabrouk Paper
July 12, 2021 13:59 pm
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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Mirette F. Mabrouk Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/blog/monday-briefing-biden-slams-door-afghanistan#mabrouk On July 9, Sudan, supported by Egypt, took the case of the moribund negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which have spun on for over a decade with no results, to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Read more at original...

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The Church State in Egypt – Origin And Formation

2021Democracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesMamdouh AlmuneirMinoritiesPaper
July 12, 2021 13:44 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Mamdouh Almuneir Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/the-church-state-in-egypt-origin-and-formation/ This article will review how Pope Shenouda III’s political project turned into a kind of “Church State” during the Mubarak era and how the relationship between the two parties developed to this extent and the impact of this on the Egyptian...

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Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan: A new partnership 30 years in the making?

2021Bruce RiedalDemocracy and PoliticsEconomyEgyptForeign RelationsHealthKatherine HarveyPaperThe Brookings Institution
July 05, 2021 13:59 pm
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Source: Brookings Author(s): Bruce Riedel and Katherine Harvey Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/07/02/egypt-iraq-and-jordan-a-new-partnership-30-years-in-the-making/ In April, the news that Iraq was mediating between longtime rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran captivated Middle East watchers. Iraq’s new role as a Saudi-Iran intermediary comes as the Saudis have...

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The Second Filling of the GERD Reservoir

2021Culture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEconomyEgyptForeign RelationsMarina OttawayPaperWilson Centre
July 02, 2021 13:50 pm
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Source: Wilson Center Author(s): Marina Ottaway Original Link: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/second-filling-gerd-reservoir The conflict between Egypt and Sudan on one side and Ethiopia on the other has been simmering for ten years, since Ethiopia started construction of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile in 2011. The Blue Nile (or Abay River to Ethiopians)...

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Roots of Tyranny and Despotism in Egypt

2021Democracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesMohamed Fathi ElnadiPaper
July 01, 2021 14:11 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Mohamed Fathi Elnadi Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/roots-of-tyranny-and-despotism-in-egypt/ Throughout Egyptian history, since the Pharaonic era up to the present era, there is a common factor, namely, domination of tyranny and dictatorship, except for a few short breaks. Tyranny and despotism started in Egypt from the Pharaonic era...

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Does Qatar’s Return to the Arab World Run through Egypt?

2021Democracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsOfir WinterPaperThe Institute For National Security StudiesYoel Guzansky
June 30, 2021 13:38 pm
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Source: The Institute for National Security Studies Author(s): Yoel Guzansky and Ofir Winter Original Link: https://www.inss.org.il/publication/egypt-qatar/ Recent months have witnessed changes in inter-Arab dynamics in general, and in relations between Qatar and Egypt in particular, which have been tense and even hostile in recent years. Warming relations between Doha and the Arab Quartet...

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Shift in Middle East Interactions: the case of Egypt and Qatar

2021Baraah Al-HamdoCulture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesForeign RelationsPaper
June 30, 2021 13:37 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Baraah Al-Hamdo Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/shift-in-middle-east-interactions-the-case-of-egypt-and-qatar/ With the US President Joe Biden’s access to the White House in January 2021, some Arab countries made numerous decisions that brought about changes in their foreign policy orientations, and partly broke  the political stalemate...

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Egypt’s Nile strategy

2021Culture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsMiddle East InstituteMohammed SolimanPaper
June 28, 2021 13:29 pm
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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Mohammed Soliman Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/publications/egypts-nile-strategy Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan are caught in a dangerous deadlock over the Nile River and despite what the international community seems to think, the risk of military confrontation among the three nations is not at all far-fetched. Addis Ababa began the second phase of...

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Egypt and Sudan look to the UN in the long-running GERD dispute

2021Democracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsMiddle East InstituteMirette F. Mabrouk Mirette F. Mabrouk Paper
June 28, 2021 13:27 pm
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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Mirette F. Mabrouk Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/blog/monday-briefing-us-airstrikes-iraqi-militias-and-risk-escalatory-spiral#mabrouk With the second unilateral filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) underway, on June 25, Egypt’s minister of foreign affairs, Sameh Shoukry, announced that the country had sent a letter to the U.N...

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Egypt media between ‘soft power’ and ‘political engineering’ (2)

2021Democracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesMediaPaperWessam Fauad
June 24, 2021 14:05 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Wessam Fauad Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-media-between-soft-power-and-political-engineering-2/ In Part I of this article, the author addressed three consecutive scenes that have highlighted the crisis of the Egyptian media, and may have summarized not only the features of the crisis, but also the struggle between conflicting...

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Doubts Surround Egypt’s Draft National Human Rights Strategy

2021Arab Center Washington DCCharles DunneDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsHuman RightsPaper
June 24, 2021 13:38 pm
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Source: Arab Center Washington DC Author(s): Charles W. Dunne Original Link: http://arabcenterdc.org/policy_analyses/doubts-surround-egypts-draft-national-human-rights-strategy/ Long hounded by international criticism of its deteriorating human rights record, the government of Egypt is preparing to respond by launching a new national human rights strategy. The strategy appears to be aimed not...

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