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Egypt: Protecting Healthcare Workers in Workplace

2019 Civil Society Culture, Education and Development Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Human Rights Judicial Affairs Mohamed Elsherif Paper

April 29, 2019 15:44 pm

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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Mohamed Elsherif Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-protecting-healthcare-workers-in-workplace/ Violence against healthcare workers is a worldwide problem that is affecting most countries including Egypt (McPhaul & Lipscomb, 2004). During the last decade, the problem became more obvious as part of the general deterioration of...

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Ethiopian Renaissance Dam & Its Implications on Egypt

2019 Culture, Education and Development Economy Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Foreign Relations Paper Shady Ibrahim

April 29, 2019 15:04 pm

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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Shady Ibrahim Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/ethiopian-renaissance-dam-its-implications-on-egypt/ The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) constitutes a real crisis for the Egyptian regime, where Ethiopia several times blamed Egypt for the failure of negotiations conducted between Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia on the dam. Also, the...

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Egypt passes wide-ranging constitutional amendments

2019 Civil Society Democracy and Politics Egypt Human Rights Judicial Affairs Media Middle East Institute Mirette F. Mabrouk Mirette F. Mabrouk Paper

April 29, 2019 14:37 pm

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Source: Middle East Insitiute Author(s): Mirette F. Mabrouk Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/publications/monday-briefing-conflict-far-over-syria There was never really any doubt that Egypt’s new constitutional amendments would pass. On April 23rd, Egypt’s National Elections Authority (NEA) announced that the referendum on a set of major constitutional amendments had passed by 88.8 percent...

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Egypt’s Invisible Executions

2019 Carnegie Civil Society Egypt Human Rights Islamic Movements and Institutions Judicial Affairs Maged Mandour Military Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

April 25, 2019 16:14 pm

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Source: Carnegie Author(s): Maged Mandour Original Link: https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/78998 On the February 20, Egyptian authorities carried out the executions of nine defendants accused of assassinating Egyptian General Prosecutor Hisham Barakat, prompting international accusations that their trials were unfair and that torture was used to extract confessions. The Egyptian government...

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Voting in the dark: Ramming the constitutional amendments through

2019 Civil Society Democracy and Politics Egypt Human Rights Judicial Affairs Madamasr Paper Rana Mamdouh

April 24, 2019 15:40 pm

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Source: Madamasr Author(s): Rana Mamdouh Original Link: https://madamasr.com/en/2019/04/24/feature/politics/voting-in-the-dark-ramming-the-constitutional-amendments-through/ The National Elections Authority (NEA) announced on Tuesday that the referendum on a set of major constitutional amendments, which allow President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to remain in office until 2030, passed by 88.8 percent...

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Authoritarian Math

2019 Carnegie Cassia Bardos Civil Society Democracy and Politics Egypt Human Rights Judicial Affairs Michele Dunne Paper

April 24, 2019 14:22 pm

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Source: Carnegie Author(s): Michele Dunne and Cassia Bardos Original Link: https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/78980 Egypt has just passed constitutional amendments in a hastily-arranged referendum that ended on April 22. They are important mostly because they will advance President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s project of one-man rule, extend his current term in office, enshrine military dominance over...

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Creating a Constituency for Secularism: Questions for Lama Abu-Odeh

2019 Culture, Education and Development Democracy and Politics Egypt Islamic Movements and Institutions Lama Abu-Odeh Paper The Century Foundation

April 23, 2019 18:28 pm

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Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): Lama Abu-Odeh Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/creating-constituency-secularism-questions-lama-abu-odeh/ Thanassis Cambanis: There’s a trend that’s really taken hold in analyses of Middle Eastern politics and culture, exemplified by the writers Talal Asad and the late Saba Mahmood, which holds that the only way to critically investigate...

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Thomas O. Melia

Democracy and Politics Economy Expert Foreign Policy Research Institute Foreign Relations Human Rights Thomas O. Melia

April 23, 2019 14:51 pm

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Thomas O. Melia is a Senior Fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Washington Director of PEN America, an organization standing at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and around the world, and he is a monthly columnist for The American

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Challenges to Stability in Egypt

2019 Culture, Education and Development Democracy and Politics Economy Egypt Hoover Institution Human Rights Lisa Blaydes Paper

April 22, 2019 16:23 pm

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Source: Hoover Institute Author(s): Lisa Blaydes Original Link: https://www.hoover.org/research/challenges-stability-egypt The last ten years have seen forms of political disruption within Egypt that were virtually unimaginable a decade ago—from the 2011 protest uprisings; the 2012 election of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi to the Egyptian presidency; the 2013 coup...

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Democracy and Politics Expert Foreign Relations Hoover Institution Lisa Blaydes

April 22, 2019 16:17 pm

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Lisa Blaydes is an assistant professor in the political science department at Stanford who specializes in comparative politics and politics of the Middle East. She is the author of Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak’s Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Her articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Studies...

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Operations Against Hasm Continue but Security Forces Still Face Challenges

2019 Egypt Islamic Movements and Institutions Military Affairs Muhammad Mansour Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai The Jamestown Foundation For Global Research And Analysis

April 22, 2019 14:41 pm

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Source: Jamestown Author(s): Muhammad Mansour Original Link: https://jamestown.org/program/operations-against-hasm-continue-but-security-forces-still-face-challenges/ Egyptian security forces killed seven alleged Hasm militants in a shootout that left one police officer wounded in Giza province, according to a statement made by the Ministry of Interior on March 7. [1] This latest incident...

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Ballot-box politics: What has pushed Egypt’s opposition to vote ‘no’?

2019 Barcelona Centre For International Affairs Civil Society Democracy and Politics Egypt Hadeer El-Mahdawyand Human Rights Judicial Affairs Madamasr Paper

April 22, 2019 14:33 pm

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Source: Madamasr Author(s): Hadeer El-Mahdawy Original Link: https://madamasr.com/en/2019/04/22/feature/politics/ballot-box-politics-what-has-pushed-egypts-opposition-to-vote-no/ Thirty-three-year-old human rights lawyer Mahienour El-Massry could not make up her mind about what to do in the referendum on the new constitutional amendments. She was torn between boycotting and voting “no.” Then...

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