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Egypt: The Military Scene in February

2019EgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesMahmoud GamalMilitary AffairsPaperSecurity and Counter-Terrorism
March 20, 2019 15:57 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Mahmoud Gamal Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-the-military-scene-in-february/ Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi left Cairo on Thursday, 14 February 2019, heading to Munich, Germany, to participate in the Munich Security Conference 2019. During the conference, Sisi gave a speech focusing on counterterrorism strategies and referring to the...

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Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood After the Arab Uprisings

2019CarnegieEgyptForeign RelationsIslamic Movements and InstitutionsOsama Al-SayyadPaperTamer Badawi
March 19, 2019 14:27 pm
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Source: Carnegie Author(s): Tamer Badawi and Osama Al-Sayyad Original Link: https://carnegie-mec.org/2019/03/19/mismatched-expectations-iran-and-muslim-brotherhood-after-arab-uprisings-pub-78621 Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, despite falling on opposite sides of the Middle East’s Sunni-Shia divide, both see benefits in cultivating ties. For Iran, outreach to the Brotherhood, particularly the...

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Development of the military situation in Sinai – Feb.

2019EgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesHaitham GhoniemMilitary AffairsPaperSecurity and Counter-TerrorismSinai
March 18, 2019 15:52 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Haitham Ghoniem Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/development-of-the-military-situation-in-sinai-feb/   More than one year has passed since the military campaign, codenamed as Operation Sinai-2018, was launched against insurgencies in Sinai, but there is no sign of success, particularly on the security level amid evictions of the...

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The US-Egypt Political-Military Relationship: A Critical Assessment

2019Arab Center Washington DCCharles DunneDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsMilitary AffairsPaper
March 13, 2019 18:12 pm
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Source: Arab Center Washington DC Author(s): Charles Dunne Original Link: http://arabcenterdc.org/policy_analyses/the-us-egypt-political-military-relationship-a-critical-assessment/ The US-Egypt relationship, once a cornerstone of American security and foreign policy in the Middle East, is in trouble. True, it is hard to tell from the headlines. To President Trump, Egyptian President...

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Guney Yildiz

ExpertForeign RelationsGuney Yildiz
March 12, 2019 15:40 pm
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Guney Yildiz is a researcher and journalist based in London with a focus on Turkey, Syria and the Kurds in the Middle East. He finished a visiting fellowship with the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a pan-European think-tank, where he worked as a specialist researcher on Syria. He had advised members of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee

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Conflicting Currents in Egyptian Thought

2019Culture, Education and DevelopmentEgyptHudson InstituteIslamic Movements and InstitutionsPaperTarek Elgawhary
March 11, 2019 16:05 pm
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Source: Hudson Institute Author(s): Tarek Elgawhary Original Link: https://www.hudson.org/research/14857-conflicting-currents-in-egyptian-thought Two significant streams of Muslim thought flow through Egypt. One emanates from the scholarship of the al-Ahzar establishment in Cairo; the other from the legacy of Hasan al-Banna and the movement he founded.1 With that in mind, this article...

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The war of words between Turkey and Egypt

2019EconomyEgyptForeign RelationsGuney YildizMiddle East InstitutePaper
March 11, 2019 15:40 pm
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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Guney Yildiz Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/publications/monday-briefing-irans-rouhani-heads-baghdad Leaders in the Middle East are no strangers when it comes to levelling insults against one another. The recent Turkish-Egyptian tension, however, signifies deeper problems between the region’s two heavyweights. Ankara and Cairo are members of rival...

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Leslie Campbell

Civil SocietyDemocracy and PoliticsExpertLeslie CampbellSecurity and Counter-Terrorism
March 11, 2019 15:18 pm
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Leslie Campbell has 25 years of experience in international development, parliamentary governance and political affairs. He joined NDI in 1994 and has directed the Institute’s programs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since 1996. As NDI’s senior associate and regional director, Mr. Campbell has overseen a vast expansion of NDI’s programs in

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Surviving Repression: How Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Has Carried On

2019Barbara ZollnerCarnegieCivil SocietyEgyptIslamic Movements and InstitutionsJudicial AffairsPaper
March 11, 2019 14:53 pm
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Source: Carnegie Author(s): Barbara Zollner Original Link: https://carnegie-mec.org/2019/03/11/surviving-repression-how-egypt-s-muslim-brotherhood-has-carried-on-pub-78552 Since the military overthrow in July 2013 of Egypt’s then president Mohamed Morsi, the regime of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has engaged in the systematic repression of the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Morsi is a member...

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Barbara Zollner

Barbara ZollnerDemocracy and PoliticsExpertIslamic Movements and Institutions
March 11, 2019 14:49 pm
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Barbara Zollner is a lecturer in Middle East politics in the Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, London. Her research focuses on Islamist politics, social movements, and parties in the Middle East and North Africa. She is the author of The Muslim Brotherhood: Hasan al-Hudaybi and Ideology (Routledge, 2008). http://www.bbk.ac.uk/politics/our-staff/academic/barbara-zollner

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Money and Morals: Salafi Economics in the Arab World

2019CarnegieEconomyEgyptFrancesco CavatortaIslamic Movements and InstitutionsPaperValeria Resta
March 08, 2019 19:10 pm
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Source: Carnegie Author(s): Francesco Cavatorta, Valeria Resta Original Link: https://carnegie-mec.org/2019/03/06/money-and-morals-salafi-economics-in-arab-world-pub-78509 In the wake of the 2010–2011 Arab uprisings, many Salafis across the Middle East and North Africa moved away from their traditional noninvolvement in political activism and embraced institutional politics through the...

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