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Egypt | Egyptian Human Rights Organizations: Together against the police campaign targeting activists through prosecution and detention

2017 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Civil Society Egypt Human Rights Judicial Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Unknown

May 19, 2017 03:33 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=19920&lang=en The undersigned organizations express their deep condemnation of the escalating police campaign targeting dozens of activists through prosecution and detention that took place last month, the last episode of which was breaking into the house of the ex-wife of leftist...

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The Politics of Egyptian Fine Art: Giving a Voice to the People

2017 Culture, Education and Development Egypt Paper Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi The Century Foundation

May 16, 2017 03:37 am

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Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/politics-egyptian-fine-art/ Snapshot: Egyptian artists have a long history of political engagement. Even in the mid-twentieth century, when they mostly relied on state funding, they made critiques of the ruling regimes, and created one of the few spaces where independent political...

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SPECIAL BRIEFING: Omnibus Spending Bill Reflects Changes to U.S. Assistance to Egypt

2017 Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Unknown

May 11, 2017 03:38 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/special-briefing-omnibus-spending-bill-reflects-changes-to-u-s-assistance-to-egypt/ Snapshot: On May 5, President Donald Trump signed the fiscal year 2017 Omnibus Appropriations bill into law, legislating funding levels for U.S. government programs, including the State and Foreign...

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The IMF is neither the problem nor the solution

2017 Amr Adly Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Madamasr Paper

May 11, 2017 03:38 am

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Source: Madamasr Author(s): Amr Adly Original Link: https://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/05/11/opinion/u/the-imf-is-neither-the-problem-nor-the-solution/ The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank were established post-Second World War, in 1944, to prevent a recurrence of the Great Depression and establish balances in the international economic system. The IMF aimed to remedy deficits in...

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Running On Empty

2017 Carnegie Egypt Michael Young Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai

May 07, 2017 03:36 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michael Young Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/69854 Mohannad Sabry is an Egyptian journalist and author who lived in Cairo until 2015, before he left in self-imposed exile after facing mounting threats. In 2011 he was named a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting, and he was nominated for an Emmy Award

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A Dispensable Dictator?

2017 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Egypt Nathan J. Brown Paper

May 05, 2017 03:46 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/68791 Since July 2013, Egyptian politics has seemed grimly predictable, with authoritarianism reestablishing itself firmly in the country, challenged only at the margins, or through terrorism and insurgency. Most of the lively politics of the immediate post-2011 period has all but ceased. Indeed...

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Egypt Back Under Emergency Law

2017 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Egypt Judicial Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sherif Mohy El Deen

May 05, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Sherif Mohy El Deen Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/69886 On April 9, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi signed a decree imposing a three-month state of emergency for the entire country. This move came the same day bombings at the St. George’s Church in Tanta and the St. Mark’s Church in Alexandria claimed around 45 lives

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TIMEP Brief: Press Freedom in Egypt

2017 Egypt Human Rights Media Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Unknown

May 03, 2017 03:34 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/timep-brief-press-freedom-in-egypt/ The Egyptian government uses policies ranging from harassment and imprisonment of individual journalists to media blackouts and channel closures to stifle freedom of the press. In 2016, Egypt had 25 journalists in prison and was ranked as the...

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Speech Bubbles: Comics and Political Cartoons in Sisi’s Egypt

2017 Culture, Education and Development Jonathan Guyer Media Paper The Century Foundation

May 02, 2017 05:52 am

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Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): Jonathan Guyer Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/speech-bubbles/ Snapshot: In print and online, Egyptian cartoonists have created sites of political dissent in defiance of a state-sponsored crackdown on opposition movements, public protest, and free speech. Based on analyses of cartoons and interviews with the artists, this chapter argues...

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Working Paper- The Arab Spring and the Employability of Youth: Early Evidence From Egypt

2017 Economic Research Forum Economy Irène Selwaness Paper Rania Roushdy Youth

May 01, 2017 05:55 am

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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Irène Selwaness, Rania Roushdy Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/the-arab-spring-and-the-employability-of-youth-early-evidence-from-egypt/ Abstract: This paper investigates the school-to-work transition of young people from subsequent graduation cohorts between 2005 and 2012 in Egypt. The analysis compares the early employment outcomes of...

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Working Paper- Is Internal Migration A Way to Cope With Climate Change? Evidence From Egypt

2017 Adel Ben Youssef Culture, Education and Development Economic Research Forum Economy Egypt Mohamed El Hedi Arouri Nguyen Viet Cuong Paper

May 01, 2017 03:37 am

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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Mohamed El Hedi Arouri, Adel Ben Youssef, Nguyen Viet Cuong Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/is-internal-migration-a-way-to-cope-with-climate-change-evidence-from-egypt/ Abstract: In this study, we examine the effect of extreme weather events on migration among governorates in Egypt using migration gravity models and data from the 1996...

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De-securitizing counterterrorism in the Sinai Peninsula

2017 Egypt Paper Sahar Aziz Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai The Brookings Institution

April 30, 2017 03:36 am

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Source: Brookings Institute Author(s): Sahar Aziz Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/research/de-securitizing-counterterrorism-in-the-sinai-peninsula/ Overview: On October 22, 2016, a senior Egyptian army officer was killed in broad daylight outside his home in a Cairo suburb.[1]The former head of security forces in North Sinai was allegedly murdered for demolishing homes and killing a...

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