Egypt: Human Rights, Seven Years After the Revolution

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/12/06/egypt-human-rights-seven-years-after-revolution-pub-74923 Co-chairmen and members of the Commission, thank you for inviting me to testify. You have heard from the other witnesses about the shocking and unprecedented human rights abuses in Egypt since the 2013 military coup. I will offer...

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The United States’ Assistance for Egypt

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/04/25/united-states-assistance-for-egypt-pub-68756 Chairman Graham, Ranking Member Leahy, Subcommittee members, thank you for this opportunity to address the subcommittee. The problem for United States’ assistance to Egypt is precisely this: how can the United States best support an important...

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A Seesaw for Sisi in Washington

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/68656 The April 9 killing of 49 Coptic Christian worshippers in two suicide bombings in Tanta and Alexandria was generally portrayed in media outlets as a setback for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after a triumphant week when he visited the United States. But while the terrorist attacks...

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It’s time to take a hard look at the U.S. relationship with Egypt

Source: Brookings Institute Author(s): Robert Kagan, Michele Dunne Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/04/05/its-time-to-take-a-hard-look-at-the-u-s-relationship-with-egypt/ Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi will be celebrated in Washington on Monday as a major ally in the fight against terrorism and radical Islamic extremism, as well as a supporter of U.S. efforts...

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Egypt’s Secular Political Parties: A Struggle for Identity and Independence

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne, Amr Hamzawy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/03/31/egypt-s-secular-political-parties-struggle-for-identity-and-independence-pub-68482 Snapshot: Secular political parties in Egypt have always been caught between an overbearing state and a largely Islamist opposition. The brief, chaotic political opening from 2011 to 2013...

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The Potential to Increase the Terrorist Threat

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/02/09/potential-to-increase-terrorist-threat-pub-67982 The Cipher Brief sat down with Michele Dunne, Director and Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Center, to discuss the potential implications of the U.S. State Department designating the Muslim...

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Black Label

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/67771 Since 1997, U.S. law has empowered the secretary of state to designate specific groups as “foreign terrorist organizations,” bringing down on them—and those who support them—an imposing range of penalties and sanctions. Such designations have come through a...

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Like a Hole in the Head

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/64611 When an Egyptian delegation heads to Quito for the October 17-20 Habitat III conference—a United Nations gathering of government officials, city planners, and urbanization experts that takes place once every 20 years—perennial issues, such as the availability of affordable housing and how to...

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Egypt Now Looks a Lot Like It Did in 2010, Just Before 2011 Unrest

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nik Nevin, Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/12/16/egypt-now-looks-lot-like-it-did-in-2010-just-before-2011-unrest-pub-62297 Egypt of December 2015 is looking a lot like Egypt of late 2010 and the final months of Hosni Mubarak‘s three-decade rule. The country’s longtime military president had little political sophistication...

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Unprecedented Pressures, Uncharted Course for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/07/29/unprecedented-pressures-uncharted-course-for-egypt-s-muslim-brotherhood-pub-60875 The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition movement and one of its oldest, is squeezed between an unprecedented crackdown from the security state and a young generation pushing for...

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Washington’s Egypt Dilemma

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/06/23/washington-s-egypt-dilemma-pub-60476 A year since President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi took office, human rights abuses in Egypt are occurring “at an unprecedented level,” says Michele Dunne, an Egypt specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Nevertheless, she...

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Egypt’s Nationalists Dominate in a Politics-Free Zone

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/04/15/egypt-s-nationalists-dominate-in-politics-free-zone-pub-59764 Snapshot: Egypt’s political scene has changed radically from the vigorous pluralism that followed the 2011 uprising; in 2015 the Islamist and secular groups that won those elections are excluded or marginalized. Nationalists...

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