Post Type – Page 182 – Middle East Policy Platform

Who Enforces Egypt’s Laws?

2016 Adel Ramadan Judicial Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

May 16, 2016 05:54 am

0

Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Adel Ramadan Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/who-enforces-egypts-laws/ On May 1, Egyptian Ministry of Interior (MOI) personnel stormed the headquarters of the country’s Syndicate of Journalists and arrested two reporters in an unprecedented move. A sense of anger prevailed among journalists as the union’s general...

Learn More

Transitional Justice in Egypt: A Challenge and an Opportunity

2016 Catherine Turner Democracy and Politics Egypt Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

May 14, 2016 03:47 am

0

Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Catherine Turner Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/transitional-justice-in-egypt-a-challenge-and-an-opportunity/ In 2011, Egypt was rocked by the events that unfolded in Tahrir Square. The world watched as protesters gathered to demand that Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled Egypt since 1981, should go. The protests continued...

Learn More

The Panama Papers: What’s new on Egypt, and why should you care?

2016 Economy Foreign Relations Hossam Bahgat Madamasr Paper

May 11, 2016 05:54 am

0

Source: Madamasr Author(s): Hossam Bahgat Original Link: https://www.madamasr.com/en/2016/05/11/feature/economy/the-panama-papers-whats-new-on-egypt-and-why-should-you-care/ On Tuesday evening, the International Consortium for Investigative Journalism CK (ICIJ) released a new database of people and companies who own shares in businesses registered in tax havens and who were exposed in the...

Learn More

Egypt and Africa: Searching for a role

2016 Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Foreign Relations Jamal Delh Paper

May 11, 2016 03:39 am

0

Source: Egyptian Institute For Studies Author(s): Jamal Delh Original Link: http://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-and-africa-searching-for-a-role/ The post-cold war era is considered one of the most crucial times in the process of change within both regional and international orders. That era witnessed ideological changes that amplified the hegemony of the western liberal ideology and dedicated the...

Learn More

Egyptian Political Parties and the Civil Society Crisis

2016 Civil Society Democracy and Politics Egypt Paper Ragab Saad The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

May 10, 2016 03:34 am

0

Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Ragab Saad Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egyptian-political-parties-and-the-civil-society-crisis/ In Egyptian politics, the stances of political movements and parties on human rights and citizenship vary according to their relationship with the incumbent regime. A quick review of the positions of the prominent...

Learn More

Students and Democratization in Egypt

2016 Abdel-Fattah Mady Democracy and Politics Egypt Paper Wilson Centre Youth

May 06, 2016 03:47 am

0

Source: Wilson Centre Author(s): Abdel-Fattah Mady Original Link: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/students-and-democratization-egypt Students at Egyptian universities have joined the public protest against Egypt’s recent agreement with Saudi Arabia to give up control of the Red Sea islands of Sanafir and Tiran. The students chanted “the people want the downfall of the regime,” a...

Learn More

Politics or piety? Why the Muslim Brotherhood engages in social service provision: A conversation

2016 Amr Darrag Egypt Islamic Movements and Institutions Paper Steven Brooke The Brookings Institution

May 06, 2016 03:36 am

0

Source: Brookings Institute Author(s): Amr Darrag, Steven Brooke Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/research/politics-or-piety-why-the-muslim-brotherhood-engages-in-social-service-provision-a-conversation/ SUMMARY “Islamists on Islamism Today” is a new series within Brookings’s Rethinking Political Islamproject. In this series, we will hear directly from Islamist activists and...

Learn More

Working Paper- Women’s participation in Labor Market in Egypt: Constraints and Opportunities

2016 Economic Research Forum Economy Hanan Nazier Paper Racha Ramadan Women Affairs

May 01, 2016 05:53 am

0

Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Hanan Nazier, Racha Ramadan Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/Womens-participation-in-labor-market-in-egypt-constraints-and-opportunities/ Abstract: This research deals with female labor force participation and its determinants in the Egyptian society using the “Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey” (ELMPS) 2012. More precisely, the paper...

Learn More

Working Paper- Inequality of Opportunity in Wages and Consumption in Egypt

2016 Caroline Krafft Djavad Salehi-Isfahani Economic Research Forum Economy Egypt John Roemer Paper Ragui Assaad

May 01, 2016 03:44 am

0

Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft, John Roemer, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/inequality-of-opportunity-in-wages-and-consumption-in-egypt/ Abstract: We provide in this paper measures of inequality of opportunity of wages and consumption for Egypt at different points in time from 1988 to 2012. A standard way of...

Learn More

Working Paper- Returns to Schooling in Egypt

2016 Abdurrahman Aydemir Culture, Education and Development Economic Research Forum Economy Egypt Meltem Dayioglu Tayfur Murat Kirdar Paper Ragui Assaad

May 01, 2016 03:37 am

0

Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Ragui Assaad, Abdurrahman Aydemir, Meltem Dayioglu Tayfur, Murat Kirdar Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/returns-to-schooling-in-egypt/ Abstract: This paper estimates the returns to schooling in Egypt using a policy reform that reduced primary school from 6 to 5 years. As a result of this reform, which was implemented in 1988, compulsory...

Learn More

Sisi Sours on the Media

2016 Carnegie Egypt Media Mohamed Elmeshad Paper

April 29, 2016 03:34 am

0

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Mohamed ElMeshad Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/63493 On April 13, 2016, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi held a 93-minute “conversation with representatives of the general public” that was in essence a speech. After the one and only attempt by an attendee to contribute, Sisi thundered, “I did not give anyone permission to speak!”...

Learn More

Tiran, Sanafir, and the Island of Executive Power in Egypt

2016 Democracy and Politics Egypt Foreign Relations Judicial Affairs Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Timothy E. Kaldas

April 21, 2016 03:38 am

0

Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Timothy E. Kaldas Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/tiran-sanafir-and-the-island-of-executive-power-in-egypt/ From an outside perspective, the transfer of the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabian control may seem relatively uneventful. The Straits of Tiran can easily be controlled or defended from Sinai given how...

Learn More