Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Hamzawy Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/65051 After the July 2013 coup that removed President Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s old-new ruling establishment, centered around military and security generals, depended increasingly on religious populism and nationalistic populism. This allowed Egypt’s rulers to tighten their grip on many aspects of life...
Learn MoreSource: Pomed – Project On Middle East Democracy Author(s): Amy Hawthorne Original Link: http://pomed.org/pomed-publications/new-report-rethinking-u-s-economic-aid-to-egypt/ In a new POMED Report, Rethinking U.S. Economic Aid to Egypt, POMED Deputy Director for Research Amy Hawthorne takes a detailed look at U.S. bilateral economic aid for Egypt. Since the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Hamzawy Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/64914 A few weeks ago, on September 24, the Egyptian Interior Ministry announced that it had arrested seventeen members of the Muslim Brotherhood who were plotting to increase “pessimism” in the country. The ministry informed the public that those arrested represented a “subversive cell” tasked to...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Tom Rollins Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/on-rashid-egypts-latest-mediterranean-tragedy/ September 21, 2016: A boat has sunk off the coast of Rashid in northern Egypt. Hundreds of people—grieving friends and family, concerned local residents—stand by the water, looking out to sea, waiting for a boat to return with...
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: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Yoram Schweitzer Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-weakening-of-wilayat-sinai/ Wilayat Sinai, an organization identified with the Islamic State, has recently suffered a series of serious blows from the Egyptian army. Most prominent among them was the air strike in early August 2016 that killed dozens of senior...
Learn MoreSource: German Council On Foreign Relations (Gdap) Author(s): Dr Omar Ashour Original Link: https://dgap.org/en/think-tank/publications/dgapanalyse-compact/isis-and-wilayat-sinai The insurgency in Sinai has evolved over the past 15 years. Its stated goal shifted from supporting Palestinian armed groups in the early 2000s to controlling areas in northeast Sinai and fighting Egyptian security...
Learn MoreSource: The Century Foundation Author(s): Omar Nasef Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/egyptian-national-security-told-nile/ Snapshot: Since its 2011 uprising, Egypt has faced heightened political, security, and economic risks—ranging from a failed state on its western borders (Libya), rising domestic militancy and terrorism, severe fiscal and foreign exchange crises, and dwindling...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Allison McManus, Jake Greene Original Link: https://timep.org/esw/articles-analysis/egypts-mainland-terrorism-landscape/ On May 8, four men carried out a brutal mass shooting, emptying their magazines into an adjacent car as they drove along the Nile in Helwan, a district in Cairo. Eight policemen were killed during the attack...
Learn MoreSource: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Ofir Winter Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/an-egyptian-take-on-the-new-middle-east/ The voices of peace that were sounded recently in Egypt, which emerged from the inner circles of the Egyptian regime and beyond, attest to the fact that new winds are blowing in the Land of the Nile regarding true opportunities...
Learn MoreSource: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/egypt-satire-suppressed-arrest-street-children-seen-sns On May 10, an Egyptian court sentenced four members of the satirical street theater troupe, “Street Children” (Atfal Soara), to 15 days in prison. The young men were accused of using social...
Learn MoreSource: The Century Foundation Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/commentary/wake-egyptair-crash-can-expect/ Last Thursday, EgyptAir Flight 804 unexpectedly disappeared from the skies over the Mediterranean en route from Paris to Cairo, presumably leaving sixty-six dead… Read more at original link.
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