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SPECIAL BRIEFING: Killings in Arish: Rising Sectarianism in Sinai

2017 Egypt Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Unknown

March 01, 2017 03:37 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/special-briefing-killings-in-arish-rising-sectarianism-in-sinai/ INTRODUCTION In the last four weeks, seven Christians have been killed in the city of Arish in North Sinai, changing the nature of violence in Sinai that has recently found a home in and around Arish, North Sinai’s...

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Working Paper- Public Value Perspective for Gender Budgeting: Evidence from Egypt

2017 Economic Research Forum Economy Egypt Lobna Abdellatif Mohamed Ramadan Mohamed Zaky Paper Women Affairs

March 01, 2017 03:36 am

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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Lobna AbdelLatif, Mohamed Ramadan, Mohamed Zaky Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/public-value-perspective-for-gender-budgeting-evidence-from-egypt/ Abstract: This paper proposes a conceptual framework that relates failure of progressing in gender equality to weakness of budgetary and political institutions. Whereas, the former drift...

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Working Paper- Does Public Health Insurance Increase Maternal Health Care Utilization in Egypt

2017 Ahmed Rashad Culture, Education and Development Economic Research Forum Economy Egypt Elhussien I. Mansour Mesbah Sharaf Paper Women Affairs

March 01, 2017 03:36 am

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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Ahmed Rashad, Mesbah Sharaf, Elhussien I. Mansour Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/does-public-health-insurance-increase-maternal-health-care-utilization-in-egypt/ Abstract: We assess the impact of health insurance on the utilization of maternal health care services in Egypt. A propensity score matching is used to control for baseline...

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Egypt’s Armed Forces Cement Economic Power: Military Business Expansion Impedes Structural Reforms

2017 Economy German Institute For Security And International Affairs Jessica Noll Military Affairs Paper

February 28, 2017 05:53 am

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Source: German Institute For Security and International Affairs Author(s): Jessica Noll Original Link: https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/egypts-armed-forces-cement-economic-power/ Snapshot: Since toppling President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, the Egyptian military has successively expanded its civil economic activities. This development has attracted growing criticism, above all in the...

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Egypt | In meetings with British Foreign Secretary and EU Human Rights Envoy : Combating sectarian violence requires respect for human rights and justice

2017 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Egypt Foreign Relations Human Rights Judicial Affairs Minorities Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Unknown

February 25, 2017 03:34 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=19894&lang=en In meetings with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and EU Human Rights Envoy Stavros Lambrinidis; Mohamed Zaree, CIHRS Egypt Programme director emphasized that respect for human rights and justice is the only way to contain terrorism and promote long-term stability...

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Divorce, Egyptian Style

2017 Carnegie Culture, Education and Development Egypt Mariam Ghanem Nathan J. Brown Paper

February 15, 2017 03:37 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Mariam Ghanem Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/68001 On July 3, 2013, General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, surrounded by a group of national figures, announced the deposition of Mohammed Morsi as president of Egypt and a “road map” to a new political order in Egypt. Conspicuous among his backers was Grand Imam Ahmad

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New Neighborhood Power Informal Popular Committees and Changing Local Governance in Egypt

2017 Civil Society Clija Harders Democracy and Politics Dina Wahab Egypt Paper The Century Foundation

February 14, 2017 03:34 am

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Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): Clija Harders, Dina Wahab Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/new-neighborhood-power/ Snapshot: After the uprising of 2011, new forms of political participation emerged, among them the popular committees (lijan sha’abiyah). Initially convened mainly to ensure security at the neighborhood level, the committees came to life after the withdrawal...

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Blocking the Defenders: Egypt’s Closure of El Nadeem

2017 Civil Society Human Rights Magda Adly Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

February 11, 2017 05:52 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Magda Adly Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/blocking-the-defenders-egypts-closure-of-el-nadeem/ At 11 a.m. on the morning of February 9, 2017, two doctors from the Free Treatment Department of the Ministry of Health, accompanied by about 50 policemen, headed toward the El Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of the...

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Bricks in the Wall: El Nadeem, the NGO Law, and Egypt’s Crackdown

2017 Civil Society Human Rights Hussein Baoumi Judicial Affairs Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

February 10, 2017 05:52 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Hussein Baoumi Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/bricks-in-the-wall-el-nadeem-the-ngo-law-and-egypts-crackdown/ Yesterday, the El Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture was closed by Egyptian security forces, following a crackdown on most of that country’s public sphere that Human Rights Watch and others...

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The Potential to Increase the Terrorist Threat

2017 Carnegie Egypt Islamic Movements and Institutions Michele Dunne Paper

February 09, 2017 03:35 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/02/09/potential-to-increase-terrorist-threat-pub-67982 The Cipher Brief sat down with Michele Dunne, Director and Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Center, to discuss the potential implications of the U.S. State Department designating the Muslim...

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The Trials of the Egyptian Pound

2017 Brendan Meighan Carnegie Economy Egypt Paper

February 07, 2017 03:41 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Brendan Meighan Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/67929 Egypt agreed with the International Monetary Fund on November 11, 2016 for a $12 billion loan in exchange for a series of economic reforms. These have already fundamentally transformed the Egyptian economy, particularly and most recognizably, depreciating the Egyptian pound against the...

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Working Paper- Rent Control Dilemma Comeback in Egypt’s Governance: A Hedonic Approach

2016 Economic Research Forum Economy Paper Shereen Attia

February 01, 2017 05:55 am

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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Shereen Attia Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/rent-control-dilemma-comeback-in-egypts-governance-a-hedonic-approach/ Abstract: This paper applies hedonic pricing models to estimate the relationship between housing prices and characteristics and determines the implicit amount of housing consumed by a typical consumer by tenure type. The...

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