Letter From Cairo

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nancy Okail Original Link: http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/62891 Strategic Europe continues its Capitals Series exploring how EU foreign policy is viewed by ten countries in Europe’s Southern neighborhood. We have asked our contributors from each capital to give a candid assessment of the EU’s approach toward their country, with a ranking on a...

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The Egyptian Interregnum: The high cost of suppressing change

Source: German Council On Foreign Relations (Gdap) Author(s): Ibrahim El Houdaiby Original Link: https://dgap.org/en/think-tank/publications/dgapanalyse-compact/egyptian-interregnum Five years after the ouster of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, the alliance backing Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is fragile to the point of collapse. A lack of overarching vision is leading to unprecedented levels of...

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2011 Revolution in Egypt: Five Years Later

Source: Centre For Security Studies Author(s): K. P. Fabian Original Link: https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/195951/ib_2011-evolution-in-egypt_030216.pdf Summary: Five years later, on 25 January 2016, Tahrir Square witnessed about 300 Egyptians gathered there to deplore the 2011 Revolution and to thank President Field Marshal Sisi and the Egyptian Police for installing a repressive police state...

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Beehive: A Crisis of Trust between Young Egyptians and the al-Sisi Regime

Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/beehive-crisis-trust-between-young-egyptians-and-al-sisi-regime In late December 2015, students from 24 universities across Egypt launched a widespread protest on social networking sites (SNS) against the involvement of the Egyptian Ministry of Education in...

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Modelling the Egyptian Shadow Economy: A Currency Demand and A MIMIC Model Approach

Source: Cesifo Group Author(s): Mai Hassan, Friedrich Schneider Original Link: https://www.cesifo-group.de/ifoHome/publications/docbase/DocBase_Content/WP/WP-CESifo_Working_Papers/wp-cesifo-2016/wp-cesifo-2016-01/12012016005727.html Abstract: We estimate the size and trend of the Egyptian shadow economy using two of the most common methods: the currency demand approach and the structural...

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Insecurity in Sinai and Beyond: Why the Egyptian Counterterrorism Strategy is Failing

Source: German Council On Foreign Relations (Gdap) Author(s): Helena Burgrova Original Link: https://dgap.org/en/think-tank/publications/dgapanalyse-compact/insecurity-sinai-and-beyond Years after the protests that launched the Egyptian uprising, Egypt’s military-led government continues to pursue heavy-handed counterterrorism measures in the Sinai Peninsula as part of its broad-gauged “war on...

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Five Years after Tahrir Square

Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): Thanassis Cambanis Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/commentary/five-years-after-tahrir-square/ Thanassis Cambanis was in Tahrir Square in January 2011 to witness first-hand the start of the Egyptian Revolution that toppled the government of then-president Hosni Mubarak. Today, I cannot help but think of the shock and wonder I felt when I beheld...

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Egypt: A Country Awaits a Revolution

Source: Wilson Centre Author(s): Abdel-Fattah Mady Original Link: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/egypt-country-awaits-revolution The Egyptian government’s crushing of the 2011 popular uprising, its downplaying of those events, and, more importantly, its willful disregard for the revolution’s significance will have dire consequences not only for Egypt, but also for the entire region...

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Did Sisi Save Egypt?

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Yasser El-Shimy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/01/25/did-sisi-save-egypt-pub-62587 Five years ago, the leaders of Egypt’s protest movement shocked themselves by successfully bringing down President Hosni Mubarak, who had been in power since before many of them were born. In those days, it was not unusual to hear talk of...

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Unmet Demands, Tenuous Stability

Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/unmet-needs-tenuous-stability/ After five years of protests, struggle, and change in government cabinets, parliaments, and presidents, Egypt is nowhere near where many had hoped when Egyptians took to the streets on January 25, 2011. Given the tumultuous environment in the Middle...

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Egypt: President Sisi in a Crusader Fight with a Generation

Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Karim Lahidji, Bahey Eldin Hassan Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=17984&lang=en The international community’s support given to Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime is primarily based on the notion that his regime maintains stability in the country. President Sisi keeps assuring that he is leading a successful...

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Egypt Adrift Five Years After the Uprising

Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): Michael Wahid Hanna Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/egypt-adrift-five-years-after-the-uprising/ Introduction: As Egypt approaches the fifth anniversary of its 2011uprising, one would be forgiven for assuming that a major challenge to the regime of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was gathering coherence and force, based upon its panicked...

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