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How can Egypt capitalize on its start-up boom?

2020Benedikt BarthelmessCulture, Education and DevelopmentEconomyEgyptJean LangloisMiddle East InstitutePaper
February 20, 2020 21:27 pm
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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Benedikt Barthelmess, Jean Langlois Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/publications/how-can-egypt-capitalize-its-start-boom There has been a largely overlooked yet significant trend in entrepreneurship in Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country. Much of this has been concentrated in the country’s two main economic centers, Cairo and Alexandria...

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HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: REVIEW OF 2019

2020Amnesty InternationalEgyptHuman RightsPaper
February 18, 2020 19:13 pm
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Source: Amnesty International Author(s): Amnesty International Original Link:  https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde01/1357/2020/en/ This report documents the state of human rights in the Middle East and North Africa during 2019. It is composed of a regional overview and 19 country entries, subdivided by key human rights themes. Mass protests shook the region and authorities responded with...

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Why Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan should ditch a rushed, Washington-brokered Nile Treaty

2020Addisu LashitewCulture, Education and DevelopmentEconomyEgyptForeign RelationsPaperThe Brookings Institution
February 18, 2020 19:09 pm
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Source: Brookings Author(s): Addisu Lashitew Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2020/02/18/why-ethiopia-egypt-and-sudan-should-ditch-a-rushed-washington-brokered-nile-treaty/ The ambitious Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been a point of contention among Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan in recent years. The GERD is now 70 percent complete and its reservoir...

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The Secrets behind Breaking Noses of Egyptian Statues!

2020Culture, Education and DevelopmentEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesForeign RelationsHussein DuqeilPaper
February 17, 2020 19:00 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Hussein Duqeil Original Link:  https://en.eipss-eg.org/the-secrets-behind-breaking-noses-of-egyptian-statues/ Visitors of Egyptian antiquities often notice that there are deformities in many statues and sculptures, which arouses questions in their minds about the causes of these deformities, when they occurred, and who was behind this?...

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Personal Status of Copts: Crisis Made by State and Church

2020EgyptIshak IbrahimJudicial AffairsMinoritiesPaperThe Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy
February 12, 2020 18:43 pm
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Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Ishak Ibrahim Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/personal-status-of-copts-crisis-made-by-state-and-church/ Recently in a rare ruling, an Egyptian court, in a case brought by a Christian woman demanding the equal distribution of inheritance between herself and her male siblings, ruled that Christians...

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Egyptian Situation after 9th Anniversary of Jan. Revolution

2020Culture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesPaper
February 11, 2020 20:26 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Policy Analysis Unit Original Link:  https://en.eipss-eg.org/egyptian-situation-after-9th-anniversary-of-jan-revolution/ The ninth anniversary of the January 2011 revolution has come after several months of relative movement of the Egyptian situation, but this time in a different way in the midst of calls for new demonstrations, something which...

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Green financing in Egypt

2020Culture, Education and DevelopmentDeborah LehrEconomyEgyptMiddle East InstitutePaper
February 11, 2020 20:18 pm
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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Deborah Lehr Original Link:  https://www.mei.edu/publications/green-financing-egypt The green movement has been slow to catch on in Egypt, but the January announcement by the Egyptian government that it is finalizing plans to launch the country’s first green bonds could provide the financial incentives to further promote sustainable...

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Global tech and domestic tactics: Egypt’s multifaceted regime of information controls

2020Democracy and PoliticsEgyptJoey SheaMediaPaperThe Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy
January 31, 2020 20:39 pm
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Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Joey Shea Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/global-tech-and-domestic-tactics-egypts-multifaceted-regime-of-information-controls/ Egyptian security agencies have effectively combined sophisticated technology purchased internationally with their own home-grown surveillance and censorship tactics to produce a...

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Libyan Dilemma and Egyptian National Security

2020EgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesForeign RelationsOmar KhalafPaperSecurity and Counter-Terrorism
January 31, 2020 20:18 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Omar Khalaf Original Link:  https://en.eipss-eg.org/libyan-dilemma-and-egyptian-national-security/ The recent mobilization of the political regime in Egypt against international interventions in Libya in favor of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) and its regional allies comes in the wake of the Turkish-Libyan memorandum of...

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Whose Lives Matter? An Equivocal Approach to American Detainees

2020Allison McmanusEgyptForeign RelationsHuman RightsPaperThe Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy
January 29, 2020 15:55 pm
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Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Allison Mcmanus Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/whose-lives-matter-an-equivocal-approach-to-american-detainees/ On January 13, Mustafa Kassem died tragically of heart failure in a cold cell in Egypt’s Tora Prison. Kassem, a U.S. citizen and by all accounts an innocent man who spent six and a half years in...

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