Amal Kandeel

Let justice be done: Respect for women’s land rights in the Middle East and North Africa

2020 Amal Kandeel Egypt Human Rights Middle East Institute Paper Women Affairs

December 28, 2020 15:02 pm

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Amal Kandeel Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/publications/let-justice-be-done-respect-womens-land-rights-middle-east-and-north-africa Ownership of economic resources is integral to exercising agency and to assuring the human security needed to live free from fear, want, and indignity. In agrarian societies, land and its natural resources are...

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Nile Basin’s GERD dispute creates risks for Egypt, Sudan, and beyond

2020 Amal Kandeel Atlantic Council Culture, Education and Development Democracy and Politics Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Paper

July 10, 2020 14:32 pm

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Source: Atlantic Council Author(s): Amal Kandeel Original Link: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/nile-basins-gerd-dispute-creates-risks-for-egypt-sudan-and-beyond/ Competition for the Nile Basin’s freshwater has been growing markedly for three decades. In 2011, it intensified after Ethiopia started building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)—a mega-dam reportedly...

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NATO countries should help Egypt mitigate security challenge near Libyan border

2019 Amal Kandeel Atlantic Council Egypt Foreign Relations Military Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

October 29, 2019 17:52 pm

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Source: Atlantic Council Author(s): Amal Kandeel Original Link: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/nato-countries-should-help-egypt-mitigate-security-challenge-near-libyan-border/ Egypt is facing multiple security challenges for which a military solution is deficient. A complex interplay between internal and external challenges, as well as human and security challenges, is...

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The Christie’s Affair: The Looting and Sale of Indigenous Egyptian Artifacts

2019 Amal Kandeel Atlantic Council Culture, Education and Development Egypt Foreign Relations Noor Sullivan Paper

July 26, 2019 18:31 pm

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Source: Atlantic Council Author(s): AMAL A. KANDEEL AND NOOR SULLIVAN Original Link: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/the-christie-s-affair-the-looting-and-sale-of-indigenous-egyptian-artifacts This week, Egypt has commemorated the 67th anniversary of the expulsion of King Farouk, the last conduit for British control and exploitation of Egypt, and the...

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Egypt’s sustainable development threatened by Ethiopian dam

2018 Amal Kandeel Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Middle East Institute Paper

May 25, 2018 16:50 pm

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Amal Kandeel Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/article/egypt-s-stability-threatened-ethiopian-dam-defies-international-norms It is a travesty of unspeakable proportions that in the 21st century the construction of a mega-hydropower-generation project, the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)—whose reservoir can store almost all the annual flow...

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Amal Kandeel Economy Expert Women Affairs

January 29, 2018 21:52 pm

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Amal Kandeel is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute. She specializes in the political economy of the Middle East, and particularly in water and food security, agriculture and climate change, and poverty and rural development issues. Her work has been focused on Egypt, as well as on Jordan, Syria, Morocco, and the UAE.

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Millions of Rural Working Women in Egypt at Risk from Climate Change

2017 Amal Kandeel Economy Egypt Middle East Institute Paper Women Affairs

October 19, 2017 03:36 am

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Amal Kandeel Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/article/millions-rural-working-women-egypt-risk-climate-change The impacts of climate change on Egypt’s agriculture are likely to be substantial, and will affect the millions of Egyptian women reliant on this economic activity for their livelihoods. The agricultural sector employs a large percentage...

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