Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Maged Mandour Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/67781 Since Abdel Fattah el-Sisi became president in June 2014, the Egyptian military has embarked on a massive spending spree. The value of arms transfer agreements Egypt signed in 2015 was the second-largest among developing countries, at $11.9 billion. This included $5.9 billion from France...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Erin Fracolli Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/Women-and-quotas-in-egypts-parliament/ Maya Morsi, the head of Egypt’s state-affiliated National Council for Women (NCW), announced last week that the NCW had completed the first phase of a program to increase women’s participation in local council elections, reaching over...
Learn MoreSource: German Institute For Security And International Affairs Author(s): Dr. Stephan Roll, Lars Brozus Original Link: https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/point-of-view/the-regeni-murder-egypts-repression-of-academics-and-journalists/ The murder of an Italian academic one year ago was yet another tragic reminder that it is barely possible to conduct independent research in Egypt these days. But...
Learn MoreSource: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Paul Rivlin Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/egyptian-economy-plot-thickens In recent years, Egypt’s shortage of foreign currency has resulted in a lack of basic goods such as food and fuel. As the demand for foreign currency exceeded the supply on official markets, the premium on the parallel
Learn MoreSource: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Mira Tzoreff Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/great-expectations-bitter-disappointment-egypt%E2%80%99s-youth-after-three-years-al-sisis-presidency Five years have passed since hundreds of thousands of youth first flooded Cairo’s Tahrir Square with the unequivocal and uncompromising demand: “Irhal!” (Get...
Learn MoreSource: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Paul RIvlin Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/egypts-economy-agony-continues With the expansion of the Suez Canal in August 2015, and the discovery of large reserves of natural gas in the Egyptian Mediterranean, there was a wave of optimism about the Egyptian economy (See: “The Good News from
Learn MoreSource: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/im-tuk-tuk-graduate-egypts-economic-situation-reflected-social-networking-sites Social networking sites (SNS) in Egypt responded tumultuously to an al-Hayat TV-Egypt interview with Mustafa Abdel Azim al-Laithi, a 35-year-old Tuk Tuk (rickshaw taxi) driver...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Shinan N. Kassam, Boubaker Dhehibi Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/mechanization-to-drive-a-process-for-fertilizer-subsidy-reform-in-egypt/ Abstract: Current modalities for the distribution of subsidized fertilizer, together with national campaigns for wheat production, may be stifling nutritional security within rural areas. Reliable...
Learn MoreSource: Brookings Institute Author(s): Sahar Aziz Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/postcard-from-egypt-during-christmas/ After a divisive presidential election year with the purported threat of terrorism from the Middle East dominating the news cycle, spending Christmas in Egypt was refreshing. Completely contradicting the xenophobic stereotypes of Arabs as violent and...
Learn MoreSource: Rubin Center Research In International Affairs Author(s): Mordechai Chaziza Original Link: http://www.rubincenter.org/2016/12/comprehensive-strategic-partnership-a-new-stage-in-china-egypt-relations/ Overview: Since 2014, Chinese-Egyptian relations have emerged as one of the most important bilateral axes in the Middle East. Over that time, a new era of closer political and economic...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Perry Cammack Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/12/15/netanyahu-and-sisi-building-strong-security-ties-pub-66528 The Cipher Brief spoke to Perry Cammack, a fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the current state of Egypt-Israeli relations. According to Cammack, Egypt-Israeli security...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): David Risley Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/article/what-egypt-s-court-ruling-protest-law-means Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court (S.C.C.) recently ruled that a central element of the country’s controversial Protest Law relating to police power to ban public demonstrations is unconstitutional. Article 73 of the constitution states in...
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