Source: Wilson Center Author(s): Radwa Elsaman Original Link: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/women-work-and-covid-egypt The onset of the COVID-19 the pandemic has seen an increase in the burden of unpaid work in the home, which largely falls to women. This includes monitoring the health of elderly family members, childcare, home-schooling, and household chores. For women retaining...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Author(s): Amr Adly Original Link: https://carnegie-mec.org/2021/10/19/how-egypt-and-turkey-trade-amid-tensions-pub-85584 Egypt’s and Turkey’s economic ties have survived the two countries’ political rift because a cutoff in relations would have harmed too many people on both sides. Read more at original link
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Mesbah Sharaf and Ahmed Rashad Original Link: https://theforum.erf.org.eg/2021/10/17/maternal-education-curb-female-genital-mutilation-evidence-egypt/ Education is widely considered a protective factor against risky health practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM). This column summarises evidence-based research that evaluates the causal impact...
Learn MoreSource: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Mamdouh Almuneir Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/brotherhood-challenges-of-reality-options-of-confrontation/ With the outbreak of Covid-19 in Egypt and amid escalating calls for the release of detainees in Egyptian prisons, the crisis of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) with the current Egyptian regime has re-emerged, given that among...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Mirette F. Mabrouk Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/blog/weekly-briefing-lebanons-power-grid-shuts-down#mabrouk Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, better known by its acronym, CAPMAS, invariably concentrates on the figures, regardless of their political connotations. The latest figures show that overall inflation in both...
Learn MoreMiray Philips is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Minnesota and a Visiting Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies. Her dissertation examines the politics and representations of Middle East Christians in the US foreign policy. Miray is also the editor at Egypt Migrations. You can follow her on twitter
Learn MoreSource: European Council on Foreign Relations Author(s): Hafsa Halawa Original Link: https://ecfr.eu/publication/burning-ambition-egypts-return-to-regional-leadership-and-how-europe-should-respond/ “Egypt is back” is the message Egyptian foreign policy officials wish to send to their counterparts across the globe. Shifting regional dynamics have prompted Egypt to adopt a more active foreign...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Miray Philips Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/the-transformative-politics-and-memory-of-the-maspero-massacre/ When Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the former head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), died on September 21, 2021, the Coptic Orthodox Church issued a statement offering their...
Learn MoreSource: Bruce Riedal Author(s): Brookings Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/10/01/what-anwar-sadats-murder-40-years-ago-meant-for-the-middle-east/ Forty years ago, on October 6, 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Islamist terrorists in Cairo. I was then the Egypt analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and had just published an...
Learn MoreAbdelRahman Khaldoun is an Egyptian researcher and a doctorate student in political science
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Learn MoreSource: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Dr. Tarek Abboud Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/impact-of-ethiopian-renaissance-dam-on-egypts-national-security/ The Egyptian people, state, and institutions have recently been preoccupied with the developments of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) due to the significance of the Nile River to Egyptians. The Nile River is...
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