Source: Madamasr Author(s): Ahmad Shehada Original Link: https://madamasr.com/en/2018/10/04/feature/politics/gaza-truce-negotiations-resume-in-latest-round-of-cairo-mediated-talks/ After a breakdown in mediation efforts last month, a four-day meeting between a Hamas delegation and Egypt’s General Intelligence Service (GIS) officials in Cairo concluded on Wednesday with a proposal to salvage a...
Learn MoreSource: Atlantic Council Author(s): Hafsa Halawa Original Link: http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/egypt-s-options-in-the-development-of-the-ethiopian-dam For decades, Egypt focused primarily on its foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa, and in the process neglected its Horn of Africa policy. Meanwhile, Ethiopia began construction on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance...
Learn MoreSource: The Jamestown Foundation For Global Research and Analysis Author(s): Muhammad Mansour Original Link: https://jamestown.org/program/egypt-declares-its-success-in-dismantling-islamist-militancy/ Eleven militants were killed by Egyptian security forces on October 24 in the latest of a series of preemptive attacks. The raid took place at a mountainous hideout located in the desert adjacent...
Learn MoreKhaled Ashour is an Egyptian media man, founder of ‘Moraselon’ network, and former member of the Egyptian Media Production City’s Board of Directors. Mr. Ashour has obtained professional diplomas in ‘international relations’ and ‘media and political promotion’. https://en.eipss-eg.org/author/khaled-ashour/
Learn MoreSource: Madamasr Author(s): Rana Mamdouh Original Link: https://madamasr.com/en/2018/11/01/feature/politics/critics-blast-draft-amendments-to-journalists-syndicate-law/ Proposed amendments to the law governing Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate have come under fire for bypassing normal procedural channels and being rushed through without input from syndicate members. Critics claim the amendments...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Khaled Dawoud Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/publications/stakes-behind-story-how-egypts-media-covered-khashoggi-case For nearly 10 days after news broke of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s “disappearance” after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, state-owned Egyptian newspapers, as well as most private ones, chose to play it safe and avoid...
Learn MoreSource: German Development Institute Author(s): Markus Loewe / Lars Westemeier Original Link: https://www.die-gdi.de/en/others-publications/article/social-insurance-reforms-in-egypt-needed-belated-flopped/ Most governments in the Middle East and North Africa spend considerable shares of GDP on their social insurance and transfer schemes but these perform poorly in terms of efficiency, equity...
Learn MoreSource: Madamasr Author(s): Hossam Bahgat Original Link: https://madamasr.com/en/2018/10/23/feature/politics/whos-buying-israeli-gas-a-company-owned-by-the-general-intelligence-service/ When news broke in February that an Egyptian firm named Dolphinus Holdingshad signed a US$15 billion deal to purchase Israeli natural gas for supply to Egypt, the Egyptian government refused to comment...
Learn MoreSource: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Mahmoud Gamal Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypts-joint-military-exercises-in-sept/ According to a statement from Egyptian military spokesperson Tamer El-Refaei, land, naval and air forces from Egypt, US, Greece, Jordan, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, and France will participate in the BRIGHT...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Rim Mouelhi and Monia Ghazali Original Link: https://theforum.erf.org.eg/2018/10/22/structural-transformation-egypt-morocco-tunisia/ Despite considerable economic progress before 1990, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia all experienced ‘premature deindustrialisation’ and unfinished structural transformation. This column looks back at structural change in...
Learn MoreSource: Brookings Institute Author(s): Tamara Cofman Wittes Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/10/19/on-jamal-khashoggi-the-muslim-brotherhood-and-saudi-arabia/ In recent days, stories have appeared highlighting Jamal Khashoggi’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and arguing, as one put it, that “in truth, Khashoggi never had much time for western-style...
Learn MoreSource: European Council on Foreign Relations Author(s): Chloe Teevan Original Link: https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_more_for_less_europes_new_wave_of_migration_deals North African governments may feel they have the EU over a barrel on migration flows. But Europe must set tough conditions on any new aid it gives to them The European Union appears to be on the verge of ramping up the...
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