Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/uncategorized/expert-qa-on-egypts-bread-protests/ On Tuesday March 7, protests broke out across Egypt in response to a rumored proposal from Egypt’s supply minister, Ali Meselhi, a Mubarak-era figure that was appointed in a cabinet reshuffle this February. Meselhi’s proposal would have...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Hamzawy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/03/06/egypt-campus-students-versus-regime-pub-68207 Following the 2013 military coup, students affiliated with-and sympathetic to-the Muslim Brotherhood demonstrated in public universities to demand the return of the deposed President Mohamed Morsi. Their demonstrations turned universities into a...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Adly Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/2017/03/02/too-big-to-fail-egypt-s-large-enterprises-after-2011-uprising-pub-68154 Large private enterprises are vital to Egypt’s economy and stability. After the 2011 uprising, they lost political sway due to their ties to the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak. However, Egypt’s economic crisis pushed...
Learn MoreSource: Cesifo Group Author(s): Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, Mai Hassan Original Link: https://www.cesifo-group.de/ifoHome/publications/docbase/DocBase_Content/WP/WP-CESifo_Working_Papers/wp-cesifo-2017/wp-cesifo-2017-03/12012017006424.html Abstract: This study examines the economic globalization and the shadow economy nexus in Egypt. Using time series data from 1976 to 2013, the impulse response...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/special-briefing-killings-in-arish-rising-sectarianism-in-sinai/ INTRODUCTION In the last four weeks, seven Christians have been killed in the city of Arish in North Sinai, changing the nature of violence in Sinai that has recently found a home in and around Arish, North Sinai’s...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Lobna AbdelLatif, Mohamed Ramadan, Mohamed Zaky Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/public-value-perspective-for-gender-budgeting-evidence-from-egypt/ Abstract: This paper proposes a conceptual framework that relates failure of progressing in gender equality to weakness of budgetary and political institutions. Whereas, the former drift...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Ahmed Rashad, Mesbah Sharaf, Elhussien I. Mansour Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/does-public-health-insurance-increase-maternal-health-care-utilization-in-egypt/ Abstract: We assess the impact of health insurance on the utilization of maternal health care services in Egypt. A propensity score matching is used to control for baseline...
Learn MoreSource: German Institute For Security and International Affairs Author(s): Jessica Noll Original Link: https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/egypts-armed-forces-cement-economic-power/ Snapshot: Since toppling President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, the Egyptian military has successively expanded its civil economic activities. This development has attracted growing criticism, above all in the...
Learn MoreSource: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=19894&lang=en In meetings with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and EU Human Rights Envoy Stavros Lambrinidis; Mohamed Zaree, CIHRS Egypt Programme director emphasized that respect for human rights and justice is the only way to contain terrorism and promote long-term stability...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Mariam Ghanem Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/68001 On July 3, 2013, General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, surrounded by a group of national figures, announced the deposition of Mohammed Morsi as president of Egypt and a “road map” to a new political order in Egypt. Conspicuous among his backers was Grand Imam Ahmad
Learn MoreSource: The Century Foundation Author(s): Clija Harders, Dina Wahab Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/new-neighborhood-power/ Snapshot: After the uprising of 2011, new forms of political participation emerged, among them the popular committees (lijan sha’abiyah). Initially convened mainly to ensure security at the neighborhood level, the committees came to life after the withdrawal...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Magda Adly Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/blocking-the-defenders-egypts-closure-of-el-nadeem/ At 11 a.m. on the morning of February 9, 2017, two doctors from the Free Treatment Department of the Ministry of Health, accompanied by about 50 policemen, headed toward the El Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of the...
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