Source: Brookings Institute Author(s): Omer Karasapan Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2016/10/04/who-are-the-5-million-refugees-and-immigrants-in-egypt/ For some time now, Egyptian officials at the highest level have been pointedly underlining a growing refugee and migrant challenge. At the G-20 meeting in September 2016, President Sisi stated that Egypt was...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Timothy E. Kaldas Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/sink-or-swim-egypts-anticipated-currency-float/ Tarek Amer, the governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), announced in July that Egypt’s longstanding policy of defending the Egyptian pound (LE) against devaluation had been a “grave error.” The strategy had slowly...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Fatma El-Hamidi Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/energy-subsidy-reform-in-egypt-the-gender-energy-poverty-nexus/ Abstract: The purpose of this study is to quantify the effects of the current energy reform policy on household expenditures along gender and regional lines. Gender analysis helps to identify constraints such as transportation...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/trade-between-egypt-sudan-and-ethiopia-prospects-and-challenges-for-trilateral-trade-integration/ Abstract: Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia possess potential natural and human resources, which can entail successful trade integration between the three countries. This paper investigates...
Learn MoreSource: Barcelona Centre For International Affairs Author(s): American University Cairo Original Link: https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/sahwa_papers/national_case_study/egypt_national_case_study/(language)/eng-US Overview: This report presents and compiles all the ethnographic fieldwork data that the AUC Forum research team has conducted for the SAHWA project. The...
Learn MoreSource: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/09/28/we-are-tombs/abuses-egypts-scorpion-prison Summary: “It was designed so that those who go in don’t come out again unless dead. It was designed for political prisoners.” –Ibrahim Abd al-Ghaffar, former warden, during a television interview in 2012 Since July 2013, when Egypt’s military, led by...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Hossam Abougabal, Achment Gonim Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/article/imf-reforms-not-enough-repair-egypt-s-economy Addressing Egypt’s economic woes remains a matter of urgency for the stability of the government and the country as a whole. Egypt’s economic recovery plan, which was spearheaded by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in 2015...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Hamzawy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/09/22/egypt-s-parliament-opens-door-for-more-repression-pub-64666 Recently, Egypt’s parliament has approved — without revision — almost all of the 342 presidential-decree laws issued by then-Interim President Adly Mansour and by President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi. Despite the clear autocratic nature...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/64611 When an Egyptian delegation heads to Quito for the October 17-20 Habitat III conference—a United Nations gathering of government officials, city planners, and urbanization experts that takes place once every 20 years—perennial issues, such as the availability of affordable housing and how to...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Giuseppe Acconcia Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/64634 President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is turning against the unions that have helped put him in power. The state has set its sights on the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (Al-Ittihad al-Masri lil-Naqabat al-Mustaqilla, EFITU), which operates as a large umbrella of...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Dr Georges Fahmi Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/64602 At the end of August the Egyptian parliament passed a law on the construction and restoration of churches. It is the first law to regulate such construction, which was previously governed by vague rules based on administrative decisions issued in the 1930s, and that placed many...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Brad Youngblood Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/standing-in-agreement-egypts-parliament-risks-becoming-rubber-stamp/ A lack of quorum had already forced Egypt’s parliament to recess for 30 minutes when Speaker Ali Abdel ‘Al decided to call for two successive votes by show of hands and two more votes via standing in...
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