Ten Years After Mubarak’s Fall, What is Egypt’s Biggest Challenge?

Source: Project on Middle East Democracy Author(s): Clare Ulmer Original Link: https://pomed.org/ten-years-after-mubaraks-fall-what-is-egypts-biggest-challenge/ During our recent event on Egypt, POMED asked four experts what they see as the greatest challenge to the country’s stability ten years after the fall of the Mubarak regime. Here are their responses, edited for clarity. Read more at...

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Nancy Okail

Nancy Okail is an Egyptian activist and a scholar with a focus in democracy and power relations of foreign aid. In 2013, Okail was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison in the controversial Egyptian court case against local and foreignernon-governmental organization (NGOs). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Okail

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Egypt’s Diversifying Insurgency

Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Nancy Okail, Hassan Hassan Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypts-diversifying-insurgency/ On two Fridays about a month apart, Egypt faced two of the worst terrorist attacks in its modern history. The attacks typify the diversifying threats this country is facing and highlight how Egypt is emerging as a new jihadi

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The Dueling Narratives of the Islamic State and the Egyptian State

Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Nancy Okail, Jake Greene Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/the-dueling-narratives-of-the-islamic-state-and-the-egyptian-state/ When President Donald Trump welcomed Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi at the White House earlier this month, Trump applauded Sisi’s efforts to fight terrorism in Egypt as Sisi boasted about...

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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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Torture to Death in Egypt’s Police Stations

Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Nancy Okail, Amr Ismaeil Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/torture-to-death-in-egypts-police-stations/ Talaat Shabib and Afify Hassan Afify are two Egyptian men who come from very different backgrounds and locations. Shabib was a papyrus salesman from Luxor in Upper Egypt, and Afify was a middle-class pharmacist from...

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