Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Michael Hochberg Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/egypt%E2%80%99s-energy-potential Egypt is not out of the dark, but there is reason to be hopeful. The nation’s energy market reforms and consistent debt repayments have won the attention and approval of international energy companies and investors in the form of significant investment in the...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Ahmed Morsy Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/delayed-transition-egypt%E2%80%99s-suspended-elections In March, Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court suspended the country’s long-awaited parliamentary elections,[1] originally scheduled to begin March 21. The decision came as a result of a March 1 ruling by the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC)...
Learn MoreSource: Brookings Institute Author(s): Tamara Cofman Wittes Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2015/04/06/obama-administration-to-sissi-egypt-bound-weapons-released-with-caveat/ On Tuesday, President Obama called Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi and conveyed news of long-brewing decisions in the Obama administration regarding U.S. military aid to Egypt – including the...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne, Robert Kagan Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/04/03/obama-embraces-nixon-doctrine-in-egypt-pub-59649 Is Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi really an ally in our ongoing struggle against Islamic jihadism and terrorism in the Middle East? That seems to be the prevailing view these days. The Wall Street Journal’s Bret...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Brendan Meighan, Alfred Jasins Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/59594 After years of doing little to rectify Egypt’s energy and electricity troubles, the government has finally moved to pursue sustainability. Energy demand, fueled by government subsidies, had for years outpaced domestic production. This has led to a large subsidy bill...
Learn MoreSource: Brookings Institute Author(s): Hideki Matsunaga, Mayada Magdy Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-to-fill-the-implementation-gap-for-inclusive-growth-case-studies-covering-urban-transportation-sector-development-in-egypt/ INTRODUCTION Since January 2011, Egypt has been going through a turbulent period with two regimes having been toppled by mass protests. Social...
Learn MoreSource: German Development Institute Author(s): Georgeta Vidican, Yasser Sherif Original Link: https://www.die-gdi.de/en/the-current-column/article/tackling-egypts-transformational-challenges/ Bonn, Cairo, 30 March 2015. From 13-15 March 2015 the Egyptian government organized a major international event, the “Egypt Economic Development Conference”, aimed at repositioning the country on the...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Ishak Ibrahim Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypt-responds-to-the-beheading-of-copts-by-is-in-libya/ Yesterday, Egyptians marked the culmination of the traditional, forty-day period of mourning for the twenty Egyptians and one Ghanaian beheaded by the Islamic State (IS) branch in Tripoli, Libya. Even as religious...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/egypt-economic-development-conference-success-or-failure Saudi Arabia’s late King Abdullah first conceived of the Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) as a means of supporting Egypt and its new government after the toppling of President Mohamed Morsi in June 2013. The plan was to...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Mohamed El Dahshan Original Link: https://timep.org/special-reports/what-the-economic-conference-got-right-and-wrong-in-sharm-el-sheikh-the-scorecard/ “Today is not the time for criticizing. Today is the time for cheerleading. Tomorrow, we criticize,” said my venture capitalist friend, responding to my skeptical comments after we...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Jayson Casper Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/egyptian-family-house-fostering-religious-unity Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has not been shy about the need to reform religious discourse and relations.[1] He is concerned about how the image of Islam has been marred by Muslims themselves, and how extremist thought has torn the fabric...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Kareem Farid Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/how-egyptian-mainstream-media-cover-the-war-on-terror/ Around seven o’clock p.m. on January 29, 2015, social media websites reported that a terrorist attack had hit three North Sinai cities of Rafah, al-Arish, and Sheikh Zuweid. Questions regarding the attacks—the apparent...
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