Mohamed Bouaddi is Associate Professor in Economics at the American University in Cairo. He is currently appointed as the director of the Master of Arts program in Economics at the American University in Cairo. Bouaddi’s research focuses primarily on Econometrics, Financial Economics and Statistics. He has published a dozen of papers in refereed journals and
Learn MoreNada Shokry is currently a Lecturer in Economics at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in Alexandria and a part-time Economist at the Egyptian Centre for Economics Studies (ECES) in Cairo. She got both, her Master’s (2017) and her Bachelor’s degree (2015) in Economics from the American University in Cairo (AUC). She is
Learn MoreElisa Epstein is the Coordinator for the Washington Advocacy team at Human Rights Watch. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, she was a Research Assistant at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy and interned with the Pentagon’s Office of Middle East Policy and the American Refugee Committee. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Near
Learn More” shape=”square”] Muhammad Mansour is a highly accomplished investigative journalist with more than ten-year, solid track record of producing high-quality print and online reports for international media outlets, including The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Times and Egypt Independent. He covers a broad range of topics related to Egyptian politics and global...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Author(s): Khaled Mahmoud Original Link: https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/77847 On October 23, Egyptian-mediated talks between the Libyan National Army (LNA)—the military faction led by Khalifa Haftar and which controls most of Eastern Libya—and the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli fell apart once again. These negotiations...
Learn MoreSource: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Ahmed Mawlana Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/jihadiist-situation-in-egypt-after-jan-revolution/ While the first episode of this study discussed the jihadist movement prior to the January Revolution (2011), this second episode addresses the jihadist situation in Egypt since the January Revolution up to the military coup on 3 July 2013...
Learn MoreAhmed Farid Mawlana, an Egyptian researcher and writer, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is also member of the Salafi Front’s Political Bureau, Egypt. https://en.eipss-eg.org/author/ahmed-mawlana-en/
Learn MoreSource: Madamasr Author(s): Ahmad Shehada and Thaier Oun Original Link: https://madamasr.com/en/2018/11/28/feature/politics/new-egyptian-proposal-for-fatah-hamas-reconciliation-that-could-send-palestinians-to-polls-awaits-abbas-approv Egyptian mediation brought tensions between Hamas and Israel down to a suspicious simmer after Gaza was nearly plunged into war at the beginning of November...
Learn MoreHafsa Halawa is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. She is a British-Egyptian political analyst, human rights advocate, and development specialist focused on democratic transition across Arab states. Halawa received her LLB with honors from the University of Exeter and her LLM with honors in corporate
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Nada Shokry and Mohamed Bouaddi Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/devaluation-is-it-contractionary-or-expansionary-to-economic-sectors-the-case-of-egypt-2/ This paper investigates the effect of changes in exchange rate on sectoral GDP in Egypt in the period between 1982 and 2014. For this purpose, the study uses a MIDAS regression...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) Author(s): TIMEP Original Link: https://timep.org/reports-briefings/timep-brief-sinai-tribes-in-egypts-war-on-terror/ Egypt’s war on terror has intersected in many ways with the engagement of Sinai’s Bedouin tribespeople, who number about 250,000 in the region: Bedouin have been not only the victims and perpetrators of terror violence...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment For International Peace Author(s): Michele Dunne Original Link: https://carnegieendowment.org/2018/11/27/sisi-builds-green-zone-for-egypt-pub-77803 Egypt’s new administrative capital, currently under construction—and tentatively named Wedian, which means “desert valleys”— represents concretely where President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has been trying to take his country...
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