Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Louise Sarant Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/article/rise-solar-energy-egypt At the Bahariya Oasis 235 miles southwest of Cairo, the mountains of the Western Desert are interrupted by vast circular patterns of greenery. On one of these large farms, in striking contrast to the ancient, wind-shaped sandstone in the background, solar panels...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Adel Ramadan Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/the-menace-of-collective-punishment-and-lack-of-due-diligence-in-egypt/ “As long as murder is committed collectively, punishment is imposed collectively,” Judge Mohammed Nagy Shehata said in a television interview on February 2, 2015 – the day the Giza Criminal Court issued...
Learn MoreSource: The Century Foundation Author(s): Neil Bhatiya, Thanassis Cambanis Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/commentary/deaths-of-egyptian-soccer-fans-raises-questions/ This past weekend, rioting broke out at soccer match in Cairo, Egypt, in which violence between soccer fans and the Egyptian police led to twenty-five deaths. In a conversation with TCF fellow Thanassis Cambanis, I asked...
Learn MoreSource: Brookings Institute Author(s): H. A. Hellyer Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2015/02/09/egypt-and-the-falling-standards-of-accountability/ February 1, 2012. At least 72 football fans killed, more than 500 injured. A stadium in Port Said, Egypt. Three years, one week later: February 8, 2015. At least 30 football fans killed, more than 70 injured. June 30 Stadium...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Mokhtar Awad, Nathan J. Brown Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/02/09/mutual-escalation-in-egypt-pub-59014 Since the overthrow of former president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, Egyptian political rhetoric has been overheated. But something different seems to be afoot in both camps. Among the Muslim Brotherhood’s supporters, subtle excuses for...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Jayson Casper Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/article/decline-coptic-activism-egypt During and immediately following the 2011 Egyptian uprising, Coptic activism reached new heights. Copts organized and came together to call for protection for their communities and rights more generally. However, particularly since the fall of the Muslim...
Learn MoreSource: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Yoram Schweitzer Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/egypts-war-in-the-sinai-peninsula-a-struggle-that-goes-beyond-egypt/ Egypt is in the midst of a war that can be categorized as a low-intensity conflict. This category represents a common pattern of military campaigns in the early twenty-first century...
Learn MoreSource: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Amr Leheta Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/revolutionizing-religion-sisis-egypt “We need a religious revolution!” Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi declared those words a month ago as he addressed senior religious leaders from al-Azhar University and elsewhere while Egyptians celebrated the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. The...
Learn MoreSource: The Egyptian Center For Economic Studies Author(s): Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft Original Link: http://www.eces.org.eg/Publication.aspx?Id=585&Type=10 Abstract: Egypt has made enormous progress in ensuring that students enter school. Yet low school quality and limited learning in school remain persistent problems. The poor quality of schooling and inefficiencies within the...
Learn MoreSource: The Egyptian Center For Economic Studies Author(s): Sebastian Ille Original Link: http://www.eces.org.eg/Publication.aspx?Id=586&Type=10 Abstract: Egypt is facing a major challenge regarding the quality of its primary education. One of the crucial problems of the Egyptian education system is private tutoring. Private tutoring is not to be considered negative per se if it is based...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Adly Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/2015/01/31/triumph-of-bureaucracy-decade-of-aborted-social-and-political-change-in-egypt-pub-58924 The developing military-backed regime under Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signals the triumph of the Egyptian bureaucracy, with all of its military, security and civilian components, over three processes of political...
Learn MoreSource: German Institute For Security and Counter-Terrorism And International Affairs Author(s): Nadine Sika Original Link: https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/egypt-parliamentary-elections/ Snapshot: According to the roadmap for political transformation announced in July 2013, Egypt’s parliamentary elections should have taken place six months after the constitutional amendments. Yet...
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