Source: Centre For Security and Counter-Terrorism Studies Author(s): José Luengo-Cabrera Copyright: Original Link: http://www.css.ethz.ch/en/services/digital-library/publications/publication.html/196126 Read the full publication by following the original link.
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nancy Okail Original Link: http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/62891 Strategic Europe continues its Capitals Series exploring how EU foreign policy is viewed by ten countries in Europe’s Southern neighborhood. We have asked our contributors from each capital to give a candid assessment of the EU’s approach toward their country, with a ranking on a...
Learn MoreSource: Brookings Institute Author(s): Sarah Yerkes Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2016/02/23/why-an-italian-students-murder-in-egypt-could-spell-big-trouble-for-the-sissi-regime/ Over the course of my career, I have watched Egypt’s transformation from an authoritarian state to a revolutionary one and back again. But last month’s murder of Italian graduate student Giulio...
Learn MoreSource: Al Jazeera Centre for Studies Author(s): Wolfgang Mühlberger Original Link: http://studies.aljazeera.net/en/reports/2016/02/2016216114532615382.html Post the July 2013 coup: Tajdid an-Nidham a vs. the re-creation of the ‘pharaonic’ system The transition phase in Egypt, which started in early 2011, was marked by efforts of the body politic and its various constituencies to redefine its...
Learn MoreSource: German Council On Foreign Relations (Gdap) Author(s): Ibrahim El Houdaiby Original Link: https://dgap.org/en/think-tank/publications/dgapanalyse-compact/egyptian-interregnum Five years after the ouster of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, the alliance backing Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is fragile to the point of collapse. A lack of overarching vision is leading to unprecedented levels of...
Learn MoreSource: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Ofir Winter, Assaf Orion Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/egypt-and-china-following-xis-visit/ In the course of the visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Egypt on January 20-22, 2016, Egypt and China announced a five-year, multi-sector cooperation agreement. This agreement injected substance into the...
Learn MoreSource: Centre For Security Studies Author(s): K. P. Fabian Original Link: https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/195951/ib_2011-evolution-in-egypt_030216.pdf Summary: Five years later, on 25 January 2016, Tahrir Square witnessed about 300 Egyptians gathered there to deplore the 2011 Revolution and to thank President Field Marshal Sisi and the Egyptian Police for installing a repressive police state...
Learn MoreSource: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/beehive-crisis-trust-between-young-egyptians-and-al-sisi-regime In late December 2015, students from 24 universities across Egypt launched a widespread protest on social networking sites (SNS) against the involvement of the Egyptian Ministry of Education in...
Learn MoreSource: Cesifo Group Author(s): Mai Hassan, Friedrich Schneider Original Link: https://www.cesifo-group.de/ifoHome/publications/docbase/DocBase_Content/WP/WP-CESifo_Working_Papers/wp-cesifo-2016/wp-cesifo-2016-01/12012016005727.html Abstract: We estimate the size and trend of the Egyptian shadow economy using two of the most common methods: the currency demand approach and the structural...
Learn MoreSource: German Council On Foreign Relations (Gdap) Author(s): Helena Burgrova Original Link: https://dgap.org/en/think-tank/publications/dgapanalyse-compact/insecurity-sinai-and-beyond Years after the protests that launched the Egyptian uprising, Egypt’s military-led government continues to pursue heavy-handed counterterrorism measures in the Sinai Peninsula as part of its broad-gauged “war on...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amy Austin Holmes, Hussein Baoumi Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/62627 On the five-year anniversary of the January 25 revolution, empty streets and the absence of people, protests, or even official commemorations have been commentators’ dominant themes. A regime that allowed, instigated, and exaggerated the size of protests to legitimize...
Learn MoreSource: The Century Foundation Author(s): Thanassis Cambanis Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/commentary/five-years-after-tahrir-square/ Thanassis Cambanis was in Tahrir Square in January 2011 to witness first-hand the start of the Egyptian Revolution that toppled the government of then-president Hosni Mubarak. Today, I cannot help but think of the shock and wonder I felt when I beheld...
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