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Egypt: A Country Awaits a Revolution

2016 Abdel-Fattah Mady Democracy and Politics Egypt Military Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Wilson Centre

January 26, 2016 03:37 am

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Source: Wilson Centre Author(s): Abdel-Fattah Mady Original Link: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/egypt-country-awaits-revolution The Egyptian government’s crushing of the 2011 popular uprising, its downplaying of those events, and, more importantly, its willful disregard for the revolution’s significance will have dire consequences not only for Egypt, but also for the entire region...

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Did Sisi Save Egypt?

2016 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Egypt Nathan J. Brown Paper Yasser El-Shimy

January 25, 2016 03:46 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Yasser El-Shimy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/01/25/did-sisi-save-egypt-pub-62587 Five years ago, the leaders of Egypt’s protest movement shocked themselves by successfully bringing down President Hosni Mubarak, who had been in power since before many of them were born. In those days, it was not unusual to hear talk of...

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Unmet Demands, Tenuous Stability

2016 Democracy and Politics Economy Egypt Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Unknown

January 25, 2016 03:40 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/unmet-needs-tenuous-stability/ After five years of protests, struggle, and change in government cabinets, parliaments, and presidents, Egypt is nowhere near where many had hoped when Egyptians took to the streets on January 25, 2011. Given the tumultuous environment in the Middle...

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Egypt: President Sisi in a Crusader Fight with a Generation

2016 Bahey Eldin Hassan Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Democracy and Politics Egypt Human Rights Karim Lahidji Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Women Affairs

January 25, 2016 03:33 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Karim Lahidji, Bahey Eldin Hassan Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=17984&lang=en The international community’s support given to Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime is primarily based on the notion that his regime maintains stability in the country. President Sisi keeps assuring that he is leading a successful...

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Egypt Adrift Five Years After the Uprising

2016 Democracy and Politics Egypt Michael Wahid Hanna Paper The Century Foundation

January 24, 2016 03:47 am

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Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): Michael Wahid Hanna Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/egypt-adrift-five-years-after-the-uprising/ Introduction: As Egypt approaches the fifth anniversary of its 2011uprising, one would be forgiven for assuming that a major challenge to the regime of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was gathering coherence and force, based upon its panicked...

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Chasing Egypt’s Economic Tail

2016 Carnegie Economy Paper Yezid Sayigh

January 21, 2016 05:55 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Yezid Sayigh Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/2016/01/21/chasing-egypt-s-economic-tail-pub-62546 A little-noticed decree issued by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the end of November 2015 empowered the agency responsible for managing real estate no longer used by the Egyptian Armed Forces to engage in profit-making enterprises and form...

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Egypt’s Natural Gas Crisis

2016 Brendan Meighan Carnegie Economy Paper

January 21, 2016 05:55 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Brendan Meighan Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/62534 One of the most pressing crises facing the Egyptian economy has been the severe shortage of natural gas. The crisis itself—which involves supply cuts to factories and frequent electrical outages—has received copious coverage in the domestic and international press and has tested the...

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Egypt’s Judiciary: Obstructing or Assisting Reform?

2016 David Risley Judicial Affairs Middle East Institute Paper

January 13, 2016 05:54 am

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): David Risley Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/egypt%E2%80%99s-judiciary-obstructing-or-assisting-reform Introduction Prior to the 2011 revolution, Egypt’s surprisingly independent and assertive judiciary had gained recognition among scholars, political opposition figures, and many in the NGO community for strength and activism in defense of...

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The Egyptian Parliament’s First Task

2016 Democracy and Politics May El-Sadany Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

January 09, 2016 05:56 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): May El-Sadany Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/the-egyptian-parliaments-first-task/ As Egypt’s House of Representatives prepares to sit for its first session, among the first tasks it will face is the review of the decrees and laws issued by Presidents Adly Mansour and Abdel-Fattah El Sisi since the approval of the

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Egyptian Civil Society in Transition—Reflections on Cairo’s Governance

2016 Civil Society Middle East Institute Paper Susanna Myllylä

January 05, 2016 05:52 am

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Susanna Myllylä Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/map/eegyptian-civil-society-transition%E2%80%94reflections-cairo%E2%80%99s-governance Greater Cairo, with its 20 million people,[1] faces wide-ranging challenges regarding its living conditions, as is typical of Southern megacities. One key factor is that 70 percent of Cairenes live in informal...

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Iqtisadi: Hosni Mubarak’s Economic and Social Policies in Perspective

2015 Economy Moshe Efrat Paper The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

December 30, 2015 05:56 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Moshe Efrat Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/iqtisadi-hosni-mubarak%E2%80%99s-economic-and-social-policies-perspective Four years after the revolution in Egypt it is clear that toppling Hosni Mubarak was not the real challenge, improving the nation’s ailing economy was the real test. One of the main...

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Iqtisadi: The Good News from Egypt – and the Bad

2015 Democracy and Politics Economy Paper Paul Rivlin The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

December 30, 2015 05:55 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Paul Rivlin Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/iqtisadi-good-news-egypt-%E2%80%93-and-bad At the beginning of August 2015, President ʿAbd al-Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated the expansion of the Suez Canal project. It added 35 kilometers (km) of new channels to the existing canal, forming a parallel side channel...

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