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Militants scouted Batal 14 checkpoint ahead of attack | Death toll in Jourra reaches 5 | Union of Sinai Tribe announces killing Province of Sinai leader | Arish: Longer gas station hours

2019 Egypt Human Rights Madamasr Military Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai

June 10, 2019 17:03 pm

Source: Madamasr Author(s): Madamasr Original Link: https://madamasr.com/en/2019/06/10/feature/politics/militants-scouted-batal-14-checkpoint-ahead-of-attack-death-toll-in-jourra-reaches-5-union-of-sinai-tribe-announces-killing-province-of-sinai-leader-arish-longer-gas-station-hours/ The attack on the Batal 14 checkpoint in the Arish village of al-Seel, which left at least 10 police personnel...

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Egypt: Amendments limit judiciary’s independence

2019 Egypt Judicial Affairs Middle East Institute Mirette F. Mabrouk Mirette F. Mabrouk Paper

June 10, 2019 16:45 pm

Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Mirette F. Mabrouk Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/publications/monday-briefing-regime-offensive-syrias-northwest-grinds-halt On June 9th, Egypt’s House of Representatives, or parliament, approved amendments to six laws aimed at regulating the performance of a number of judicial authorities: The Supreme Constitutional Court (law 48/1979), the State...

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Islamic Movements and Institutions Analysis 2019

Analysis

June 07, 2019 18:30 pm

Since the July 2013 overthrow of President Morsi of Egypt, Islamic movements and organizations have been the focus of sustained research. A total of eighteen reports were published on the topic in 2018 by seventeen think tanks. In comparison, twenty-one reports by nine think tanks were published in the first few months of 2019. This

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Ramadan Soap Operas Contradict Sisi’s Outreach to Israel

2019 Culture, Education and Development Egypt Foreign Relations Haisam Hassanein Media Paper Washington Institute

June 07, 2019 17:46 pm

Source: Washington Institute Author(s): Haisam Hassanein Original Link: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/ramadan-soap-operas-contradict-sisis-outreach-to-israel Despite Egypt’s warming relations with the Israeli government, the country’s airwaves and movie theaters are still rife with bellicose and anti-Semitic content. In the past five years, Egyptian-Israeli relations...

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Ethiopian bid for mediation, African Union suspension trouble Egypt’s play for role in Sudan’s transition

2019 Egypt Foreign Relations Madamasr Military Affairs Paper

June 07, 2019 17:35 pm

Source: Madamasr Author(s): Madamasr Original Link: https://madamasr.com/en/2019/06/07/feature/politics/ethiopian-bid-for-mediation-african-union-suspension-trouble-egypts-play-for-role-in-sudans-transition/ Officials in Cairo watching the violent dispersal of the Sudanese revolutionaries’ sit-in led by the Rapid Support Forces unfold since Monday were left “worried,” says one Egyptian...

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Rabab El-Mahdi

Civil Society Democracy and Politics Economy Expert Islamic Movements and Institutions Judicial Affairs Rabab El-Mahdi

June 06, 2019 18:43 pm

Rabab El-Mahdi is associate professor of political science at The American University in Cairo. She wrote her dissertation on the impact of neo-liberal economic reconstruction on changing patterns of state-civil society relations in Egypt and Bolivia. El-Mahdi’s research interests cover the areas of state-civil society relations, social movements and resistance, as well as the political

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Lama Abu-Odeh

Expert Foreign Relations Judicial Affairs Lama Abu-Odeh Women Affairs

June 06, 2019 18:26 pm

Lama Abu-Odeh is a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. She has written extensively on Islamic law, Palestine, and feminism in the Arab world.

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Karl Sharro

Civil Society Culture, Education and Development Democracy and Politics Expert Islamic Movements and Institutions Karl Sharro

June 06, 2019 18:14 pm

Karl Sharro is a Lebanese-Iraqi-British architect and satirist. He lives in London and blogs about the Middle East as KarlreMarks. Follow Karl on Twitter: @KarlreMarks

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Zaid Al-Ali

Civil Society Democracy and Politics Expert Judicial Affairs Zaid Al-Ali

June 06, 2019 17:38 pm

Zaid Al-Ali is the Senior Adviser on Constitution-Building for the Arab Region at International IDEA and an independent scholar. He focuses on constitutional developments throughout the Arab region, with a particular focus on Iraq and the wave of reforms that took place in Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen following the start of popular

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Christians and Other Religious Minorities in the Middle East

2019 Civil Society Democracy and Politics Egypt Elizabeth Monier Human Rights Minorities Paper The Century Foundation

June 06, 2019 17:31 pm

Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): Elizabeth Monier Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/christians-religious-minorities-middle-east-questions-elizabeth-monier/ Thanassis Cambanis: You’ve said that Christians in the Middle East represent different denominational, ethnic, and linguistic identities. Is it unproductive to talk about Middle Eastern Christians as a homogenous...

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Elizabeth Monier

Civil Society Democracy and Politics Elizabeth Monier Expert Human Rights Minorities

June 06, 2019 17:28 pm

Elizabeth Monier is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Her research interests include identity, the nation, sectarianism, and minority and communal politics in the modern history and culture of the Arab world. https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-elizabeth-monier

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Ahmed El Hady

Ahmed El Hady Civil Society Expert Human Rights Minorities

June 06, 2019 17:08 pm

Ahmed El-Hady is an internationally recognized neuroscientist and a revolutionary activist. He is one the founders of the recently formed Egyptian Coalition for Freedom and Justice which is concerned with human rights in Egypt. He holds a PhD in neuroscience from Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow

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Militants scouted Batal 14 checkpoint ahead of attack | Death toll in Jourra reaches 5 | Union of Sinai Tribe announces killing Province of Sinai leader | Arish: Longer gas station hours

Egypt: Amendments limit judiciary’s independence

Islamic Movements and Institutions Analysis 2019

Ramadan Soap Operas Contradict Sisi’s Outreach to Israel

Ethiopian bid for mediation, African Union suspension trouble Egypt’s play for role in Sudan’s transition

Rabab El-Mahdi

Lama Abu-Odeh

Karl Sharro

Zaid Al-Ali

Christians and Other Religious Minorities in the Middle East

Elizabeth Monier

Ahmed El Hady

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