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Egyptian Debt: the Road to the Abyss

2017 Ashraf Dawaba Democracy and Politics Economy Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Human Rights Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

July 26, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: Egyptian Institute For Studies Author(s): Ashraf Dawaba Original Link: http://en.eipss-eg.org/egyptian-debt-the-road-to-the-abyss/ Egyptian Debt: the Road to the Abyss In its introduction, the study explains that public debt is one of the important issues that have direct impact on the economics of the countries and its people’s standard of living and the future of current and

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Inequality of opportunity in Egypt

2017 Culture, Education and Development Djavad Salehi-Isfahani Economy Egypt Paper The Brookings Institution

July 25, 2017 03:37 am

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Source: Brookings Institute Author(s): Djavad Salehi-Isfahani Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2017/07/25/inequality-of-opportunity-in-egypt/ It is rare to read an account of the Arab Spring uprisings without a reference to economic injustice. Indeed, it is natural to believe that economic and social injustice fuel, if not cause, all revolutions. For this...

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Egypt’s Ad Campaign for Investment Law Glosses over Economic Challenges

2017 Economy Judicial Affairs Mohamed El Dahshan Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

July 20, 2017 05:54 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Mohamed El Dahshan Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypts-ad-campaign-for-investment-law-glosses-over-economic-challenges/ A television commercial showed beautiful young people walking out on their daily jobs, launching a homemade jam company, a food truck, or a designer furniture store. A voiceover promised that the...

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Executing Justice in Egypt

2017 Carnegie Egypt Human Rights Judicial Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sherif Mohy El Deen

July 20, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Sherif Mohy El Deen Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/71596 On June 7, the Court of Cassation, Egypt’s highest court, issued a ruling reaffirming the death penalty for six young men from Mansoura who have been in jail since 2014. This is part of a surge in executions over the past few years. Executions increased from 15

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Egyptian Copts Under Attack: The Frailty of a National Unity Discourse

2017 Bård Helge Kårtveit Middle East Institute Minorities Paper

July 13, 2017 05:53 am

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Bård Helge Kårtveit Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/map/egyptian-copts-under-attack-frailty-national-unity-discourse On May 26, 2017, 30 Egyptian Coptic Christians were killed on a bus headed for St. Samuel’s Monastery near Minya.[1] This attack followed the Palm Sunday bombing of two Coptic Churches in Tanta and Alexandria. In less than six...

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Egypt’s Payroll Is Fine, but Its Revenues Are Too Low

2017 Economy Osama Diab Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

July 05, 2017 05:56 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Osama Diab Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypts-payroll-is-fine-but-its-revenues-are-too-low/ Throughout June, the Egyptian cabinet and parliament debated a budget for the 2017–18 fiscal year, which began on July 1. The budget has been referred to in Egypt as the “IMF budget” due to the number of restrictions in an...

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Israel’s Empty Embassy in Cairo

2017 Foreign Relations Ofir Winter Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Institute For National Security Studies

July 03, 2017 05:54 am

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Source: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Ofir Winter Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/israels-empty-embassy-cairo/ Since the normalization of relations between Israel and Egypt, the only time that the Israeli presence in Cairo was cut off completely came in late 2016, when the Israeli ambassador and his staff returned to Israel due to security warnings...

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The Role of the Public Prosecution in Egypt’s Repression

2017 Human Rights Judicial Affairs Mohamed El-Ansary Paper Pomed

July 01, 2017 05:54 am

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Source: Pomed – Project On Middle East Democracy Author(s): Mohamed El-Ansary Original Link: http://pomed.org/pomed-publications/the-role-of-the-public-prosecution-in-egypts-repression/ Summary: The Office of the Public Prosecution, a powerful entity within the Egyptian judiciary, has been a driving force in the vast crackdown on dissent that has unfolded since the overthrow of President...

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Working Paper- Young People’s Gender Role Attitudes Over the Transition to Adulthood in Egypt

2017 Economic Research Forum Maia Sieverding May Gadallah Paper Rania Roushdy Women Affairs Youth

July 01, 2017 05:53 am

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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): May Gadallah, Rania Roushdy, Maia Sieverding Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/young-peoples-gender-role-attitudes-over-the-transition-to-adulthood-in-egypt/ Abstract: Change in gender role attitudes is a neglected dimension of research on the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa that has broad implications for young...

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The practice and culture of smuggling in the borderland of Egypt and Libya

2017 Chatham House Economy Egypt Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Thomas Husken

July 01, 2017 03:40 am

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Source: Chatham House Author(s): Thomas Husken Original Link: https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/ia/practice-and-culture-smuggling-borderland-egypt-and-libya Abstract: This article looks at smuggling among the Awlad ‘Ali Bedouin in the borderland of Egypt and Libya. Smuggling is understood as a transgressive economic practice that is embedded in the wider social, political and cultural...

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Egypt’s Sisi Gives With One Hand, and Takes Away With the Other

2017 Chatham House David Butter Economy Egypt Paper

June 28, 2017 03:43 am

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Source: Chatham House Author(s): David Butter Original Link: https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/egypts-sisi-gives-one-hand-and-takes-away-other As the Egyptian parliament was nearing the conclusion of its review of the government’s draft budget for the 2017–18 (July–June) fiscal year, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi on 21 June announced a package of measures including extra funding for...

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Sisi’s Pyrrhic Victory

2017 Carnegie Judicial Affairs Maged Mandour Paper

June 27, 2017 05:54 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Maged Mandour Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/71367 The transfer of the two red sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir from Egypt to Saudi Arabia sparked a long legal battle between the regime and critics within the establishment, led by former presidential candidate Khaled Ali. The regime seems to have won the battle, as

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