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What the Jailing of Ismail Alexandrani Tells Us About Egypt

2015Council On Foreign RelationsEgyptElliot AbramsPaperSecurity and Counter-Terrorism
December 03, 2015 03:40 am
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Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Elliot Abrams Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/what-jailing-ismail-alexandrani-tells-us-about-egypt Ismail Alexandrani is an Egyptian journalist who was detained when he returned to Egypt recently, and that detention has now been extended for at least another 15 days. His treatment by the government of President Sisi tells us a good deal...

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Working Paper- Intergenerational Mobility in Women’s Employment Outcomes in Egypt

2015Economic Research ForumEconomyMaia SieverdingPaperWomen Affairs
December 01, 2015 05:53 am
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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Maia Sieverding Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/intergenerational-mobility-in-Womens-employment-outcomes-in-egypt/ Abstract: The importance of mothers’ educational and occupational attainments for understanding the social mobility of their children, and particularly daughters, has been increasingly emphasized as female labor force...

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Working Paper- Short and Long-Term Impacts of Emigration on Origin Households: The Case of Egypt

2015Anda DavidEconomic Research ForumEconomyEgyptJoachim JarreauPaper
December 01, 2015 03:44 am
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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Anda David, Joachim Jarreau Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/short-and-long-term-impacts-of-emigration-on-origin-households-the-case-of-egypt/ Abstract: This paper studies the impacts of emigration on income inequality and wealth in Egypt. Using three waves of a longitudinal survey covering the 1998-2012 period, we first study the impact...

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Working Paper- Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty in Egypt?

2015Aysit TanselEconomic Research ForumEconomyEgyptHalil Ibrahim KeskinPaperZeynel Abidin Ozdemir
December 01, 2015 03:44 am
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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Aysit Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/is-there-an-informal-employment-wage-penalty-in-egypt/ Abstract: This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using the Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate...

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Food Needs Drive Cairo Residents to the Rooftops

2015EconomyEgyptLouise SarantMiddle East InstitutePaper
November 30, 2015 03:40 am
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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Louise Sarant Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/food-needs-drive-cairo-residents-rooftops On the rooftop of a three-story brick building tucked inside a dusty alley of ‘Izbat al-Nasr, a poor and informal neighborhood southeast of Cairo, Leila Hussein crouches, tending to the basil and rocket she grows. The incessant cackling of geese...

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Did Egypt’s Parliamentary Election just trump citizens’ rights?

2015Cairo Institute For Human Rights StudiesDemocracy and PoliticsPaperRagab Saad
November 20, 2015 05:54 am
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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Ragab Saad Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=17642&lang=en  Introduction: Since the Muslim Brotherhood rule was toppled in July 2013, the regime of President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi has strived to consolidate his one-man rule; he painted the political opposition and civil society as traitors and foreign agents and exploited the...

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Egypt’s Military Business: The Need for Change

2015EconomyMiddle East InstituteMilitary AffairsPaperZeinab Abul-Magd
November 19, 2015 05:53 am
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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Zeinab Abul-Magd Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/map/egypt%E2%80%99s-Military-business-need-change In today’s Egypt, you cannot miss it: the heavy presence of the military institution in the economy. The Egyptian military owns business enterprises that are in almost every sector and produce an extremely wide area of services and goods...

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Egypt’s democratic window-dressing: Procedural elections and paltry voter participation indicate a non-pluralistic transformation

2015Democracy and PoliticsFinnish Institute Of International AffairsPaperWolfgang Mühlberger
November 18, 2015 05:56 am
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Source: Finnish Institute Of International Affairs (Fiia) Author(s): Wolfgang Mühlberger Original Link: https://www.fiia.fi/en/publication/egypts-democratic-window-dressing The first round of parliamentary elections in October turned out to be symptomatic of a derailed democratic transition in Egypt. Mainly endorsing the return of authoritarian governance structures, they epitomize the...

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Egypt Needs a Comprehensive Approach to Terrorism

2015EgyptGregory AftandilianPaperSecurity and Counter-TerrorismThe Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy
November 16, 2015 03:40 am
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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Gregory Aftandilian Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypt-needs-a-comprehensive-approach-to-terrorism/ Egypt faces a serious threat from terrorist groups, not only in the Sinai Peninsula but also in other parts of the country. Unfortunately, the government’s counter-terrorism campaign over the past several years has not...

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Egypt’s Rising Security Threat

2015PaperSecurity and Counter-TerrorismThe Tahrir Institute For Middle East PolicyUnknown
November 15, 2015 05:55 am
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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/special-reports/egypts-rising-Security-threat/ Overview: Egypt’s War on Terror has become a defining feature of Abdel-Fattah El Sisi’s presidency, and the provision of security a top priority. This is especially the case because of the sensitivity of the current period of political and...

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Metrojet Incident Spotlights Egypt’s Security Struggles

2015Chatham HouseJane KinninmontPaperSecurity and Counter-Terrorism
November 09, 2015 05:55 am
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Source: Chatham House Author(s): Jane Kinninmont Original Link: https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/metrojet-incident-spotlights-egypt-s-Security-struggles The suspicion that a bomb caused a Russian passenger plane to crash over Sinai casts an international spotlight on the security problems that Egyptians have already been facing – and the limitations of the highly militarized state’s...

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Egypt: Into the Unknown

2015Council On Foreign RelationsEgyptHuman RightsPaperSteven A. Cook
November 09, 2015 03:40 am
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Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Steven A. Cook Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/egypt-unknown The Egyptian state is weak. The country’s leaders are in a state of either panic or perpetual confusion. No one is in control. As in the darkest, most contested days of former President Mohammed Morsi’s tenure, Egypt’s failure once again seems plausible. Despite

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