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Secular-Islamist Teamwork: Questions for Rabab El Mahdi

2019Civil SocietyDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptIslamic Movements and InstitutionsPaperRabab El-MahdiThe Century Foundation
May 09, 2019 18:43 pm
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Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): Rabab El-Mahdi Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/secular-islamist-teamwork-questions-rabab-el-mahdi/ Thanassis Cambanis: Your experience in the Egyptian presidential campaign of 2012 seems like it’s still relevant today, because it’s one of the only examples in contemporary politics where leftists and Communists partnered up with a...

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TIMEP Brief: VAT Law

2019EconomyEgyptJudicial AffairsPaperThe Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy
May 09, 2019 17:09 pm
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Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): TIMEP Original Link: https://timep.org/reports-briefings/timep-brief-vat-law/ The VAT Law replaced the existing 10 percent sales tax with a new VAT. The rate was initially set at 13 percent, and increased to 14 percent in July 2017, the start of the fiscal year following the law’s ratification. Although the VAT Law

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Blacklisting the Muslim Brotherhood: What to Know

2019EgyptForeign RelationsIslamic Movements and InstitutionsPaperZachary Laub
May 09, 2019 17:03 pm
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Source: Council on Foreign Relations Author(s): Zachary Laub Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/article/blacklisting-muslim-brotherhood-what-know U.S. President Donald J. Trump is urging the State Department to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), returning to an idea his administration floated in 2017. The renewed interest follows the recent White House...

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What Impact Would U.S. Designation of the Muslim Brotherhood As A Terrorist Organization Have?

2019Alison PargeterCarnegieEgyptForeign RelationsIslamic Movements and InstitutionsMarc LynchMichael YoungNervana MahmoudPaperShadi Hamid
May 09, 2019 16:44 pm
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Source: Carnegie Author(s): Michael Young, Shadi Hamid, Nervana Mahmoud, Alison Pargeter, and Marc Lynch Original Link: https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/79067 A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security. Read more at original link

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Nervana Mahmoud

Democracy and PoliticsExpertIslamic Movements and InstitutionsNervana MahmoudWomen Affairs
May 09, 2019 16:42 pm
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Nervana Mahmoud is a Doctor and Independent commentator on Middle East issues. The only practising doctor in UK who writes regularly in Middle East politics.  She started blogging and writing on Middle East issues after the Egyptian revolution in 2011. At the start of 2013, Nervana began publishing a weekly compilation of Egyptian news, reports, and analyses

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Excluded and Unequal

2019Democracy and PoliticsEgyptHuman RightsMichael Wahid HannaMilitary AffairsMinoritiesPaperThe Century Foundation
May 09, 2019 16:28 pm
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Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): MICHAEL WAHID HANNA Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/christian-exclusion-from-egypts-security-state/ In November 2018, in a tragic scene that has by now become all too familiar, Copts converged on al-Amir Tadros Church in Minya, 150 miles south of Cairo on the banks of the Nile. They were there to bury seven victims of a militant

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New Political Struggles for Egypt’s Military

2019Bahey Eldin HassanCarnegieDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptJudicial AffairsMilitary AffairsPaper
May 09, 2019 16:02 pm
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Source: Carnegie Author(s): Bahey Eldin Hassan Original Link: https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/79096 Much of the focus on the Egyptian constitutional amendments ratified on April 20-22 has been on those allowing President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to stay in power for an additional eight years and gain full control over the judicial branch. However, little attention has been paid to

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Innovative Arab Media and the New Outlines of Citizenship

2019Civil SocietyDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsLina AttalahMediaPaperThe Century Foundation
May 07, 2019 17:23 pm
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Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): Lina Attalah Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/innovative-arab-media-new-outlines-citizenship/ Trying to work in free and critical media in Egypt in the last few years has at times been a lonely endeavor. Even at its best moments, reporting and writing for Mada Masr, the Cairo-based independent media outlet I cofounded in 2013, can feel...

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Recession of New Stock Exchange Mechanisms in Egypt

2019Ahmed ZikrallahEconomyEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesPaper
May 07, 2019 15:00 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Ahmed Zikrallah Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/recession-of-new-stock-exchange-mechanisms-in-egypt/ After a long period of calls by experts for the issuance of two stock exchange mechanisms: ‘market maker’ and ‘short selling’, and due to a significant decline in performance of the market compared to the previous year, the government...

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FREEDOMS UNDER THREAT: THE SPREAD OF ANTI-NGO MEASURES IN AFRICA

2019Civil SocietyEgyptFreedom HouseHuman RightsJudicial AffairsPaper
May 07, 2019 14:48 pm
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Source: Freedom House Author(s): Freedom House Original Link: https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-reports/freedoms-under-threat-anti-ngo-measures-africa Over the last 15 years, 11 African countries have adopted legislation or policies that improperly constrained nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).1 Seven countries—Egypt, Tunisia, Rwanda, Zambia,2 Malawi, Mozambique, and...

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Jacob Nagel

EgyptExpertForeign RelationsIslamic Movements and InstitutionsJacob NagelMilitary AffairsSecurity and Counter-Terrorism
May 06, 2019 15:33 pm
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BG (Res.) Professor Jacob Nagel is a visiting fellow at FDD and a visiting professor at the Technion Aerospace Engineering Faculty. Nagel was a career Israeli civil servant official (IDF, Defense Ministry and Prime Minister’s Office) for over 40 years. From January 2016 to May 2017, Jacob served as the head of Israel’s National Security

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Egypt: Army’s Domination of Health Sector

2019Amgad HamdiCivil SocietyEconomyEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesMilitary AffairsPaper
May 06, 2019 15:09 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Amgad Hamdi Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-armys-domination-of-health-sector/ The Egyptian Ministry of Military Production has expanded its involvement in the Egyptian economic and social affairs in general although these activities are deemed contradictory with the ministry’s vision and objectives. However, the Ministry of...

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