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...
Learn MoreSource: 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...
Learn MoreSource: 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...
Learn MoreSource: 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...
Learn MoreSource: 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...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Yezid Sayigh Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/2016/01/21/chasing-egypt-s-economic-tail-pub-62546 A little-noticed decree issued by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the end of November 2015 empowered the agency responsible for managing real estate no longer used by the Egyptian Armed Forces to engage in profit-making enterprises and form...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Brendan Meighan Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/62534 One of the most pressing crises facing the Egyptian economy has been the severe shortage of natural gas. The crisis itself—which involves supply cuts to factories and frequent electrical outages—has received copious coverage in the domestic and international press and has tested the...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): David Risley Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/egypt%E2%80%99s-judiciary-obstructing-or-assisting-reform Introduction Prior to the 2011 revolution, Egypt’s surprisingly independent and assertive judiciary had gained recognition among scholars, political opposition figures, and many in the NGO community for strength and activism in defense of...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): May El-Sadany Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/the-egyptian-parliaments-first-task/ As Egypt’s House of Representatives prepares to sit for its first session, among the first tasks it will face is the review of the decrees and laws issued by Presidents Adly Mansour and Abdel-Fattah El Sisi since the approval of the
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Susanna Myllylä Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/map/eegyptian-civil-society-transition%E2%80%94reflections-cairo%E2%80%99s-governance Greater Cairo, with its 20 million people,[1] faces wide-ranging challenges regarding its living conditions, as is typical of Southern megacities. One key factor is that 70 percent of Cairenes live in informal...
Learn MoreSource: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Moshe Efrat Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/iqtisadi-hosni-mubarak%E2%80%99s-economic-and-social-policies-perspective Four years after the revolution in Egypt it is clear that toppling Hosni Mubarak was not the real challenge, improving the nation’s ailing economy was the real test. One of the main...
Learn MoreSource: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Paul Rivlin Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/iqtisadi-good-news-egypt-%E2%80%93-and-bad At the beginning of August 2015, President ʿAbd al-Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated the expansion of the Suez Canal project. It added 35 kilometers (km) of new channels to the existing canal, forming a parallel side channel...
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