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Bricks in the Wall: El Nadeem, the NGO Law, and Egypt’s Crackdown

2017 Civil Society Human Rights Hussein Baoumi Judicial Affairs Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

February 10, 2017 05:52 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Hussein Baoumi Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/bricks-in-the-wall-el-nadeem-the-ngo-law-and-egypts-crackdown/ Yesterday, the El Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture was closed by Egyptian security forces, following a crackdown on most of that country’s public sphere that Human Rights Watch and others...

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The Potential to Increase the Terrorist Threat

2017 Carnegie Egypt Islamic Movements and Institutions Michele Dunne Paper

February 09, 2017 03:35 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/02/09/potential-to-increase-terrorist-threat-pub-67982 The Cipher Brief sat down with Michele Dunne, Director and Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Center, to discuss the potential implications of the U.S. State Department designating the Muslim...

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The Trials of the Egyptian Pound

2017 Brendan Meighan Carnegie Economy Egypt Paper

February 07, 2017 03:41 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Brendan Meighan Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/67929 Egypt agreed with the International Monetary Fund on November 11, 2016 for a $12 billion loan in exchange for a series of economic reforms. These have already fundamentally transformed the Egyptian economy, particularly and most recognizably, depreciating the Egyptian pound against the...

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Working Paper- Rent Control Dilemma Comeback in Egypt’s Governance: A Hedonic Approach

2016 Economic Research Forum Economy Paper Shereen Attia

February 01, 2017 05:55 am

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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Shereen Attia Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/rent-control-dilemma-comeback-in-egypts-governance-a-hedonic-approach/ Abstract: This paper applies hedonic pricing models to estimate the relationship between housing prices and characteristics and determines the implicit amount of housing consumed by a typical consumer by tenure type. The...

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WELFARE GAINS FROM UTILITY REFORMS IN EGYPTIAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS

2017 Amirah El-Haddad Economy Egypt German Development Institute Paper

February 01, 2017 03:45 am

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Source: German Development Institute Author(s): Amirah El-Haddad Original Link: https://www.die-gdi.de/en/others-publications/article/welfare-gains-from-utility-reforms-in-egyptian-telecommunications/ Abstract: Utility sector reform spread across the developing world in the 1980s and 1990s. In Egypt, as in many cases, the pace and nature of reform has been challenged by a state-owned national...

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Sixth Anniversary of the January 25 Revolution

2017 Democracy and Politics Egypt Michael Barak Paper The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

January 30, 2017 03:47 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/sixth-anniversary-january-25-revolution January 25 marked six years since Egypt’s popular revolution, ousting former President Hosni Mubarak’s regime. The date sparked widespread discussion on social networking sites (SNS), in which hundreds of...

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Year of the Egyptian Woman

2017 Egypt Michael Barak Paper The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Women Affairs

January 30, 2017 03:36 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/year-egyptian-woman In March, three events related to women took place in Egypt, including International Women’s Day, Egyptian Women’s Day, and Mother’s Day,[1] which sparked a lively debate on social networking sites (SNS), especially among women, about the...

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Escaping the cycle of debt: A grand bargain for Egypt’s creditors

2017 Al Jazeera Centre For Studies Economy Imraan Minty Paper

January 29, 2017 05:55 am

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Source: Al Jazeera Centre For Studies Author(s): Imraan Minty Original Link: http://studies.aljazeera.net/en/reports/2017/01/escaping-cycle-debt-grand-bargain-egypts-creditors-170129095832358.html Snapshot: The November 2016 loan agreement between Egypt and the IMF will provide Cairo with another temporary economic life line. Yet, as with previous loans in Egypt’s long history of international...

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The Attack on Civil Society Outside Cairo

2017 Amy Austin Holmes Carnegie Civil Society Egypt Paper

January 26, 2017 03:34 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amy Austin Holmes Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/67810 Civil society in Egypt is undergoing an unprecedented wave of repression. The government is not only targeting NGOs that have played a vital role in documenting human rights violations. It appears the state is attempting to silence or subdue virtually the entire spectrum of civil

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The Tragedy of Egypt’s Stolen Revolution

2017 Amr Hamzawy Carnegie Democracy and Politics Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

January 25, 2017 05:54 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Hamzawy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/01/25/tragedy-of-egypt-s-stolen-revolution-pub-67809 Six years after its democratic revolution in January 25, 2011, Egypt’s political realities are back to square one. Once again, a military officer has been installed in the presidential palace after an election that lacked any measure...

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Black Label

2017 Carnegie Egypt Islamic Movements and Institutions Judicial Affairs Michele Dunne Nathan J. Brown Paper

January 25, 2017 03:35 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/67771 Since 1997, U.S. law has empowered the secretary of state to designate specific groups as “foreign terrorist organizations,” bringing down on them—and those who support them—an imposing range of penalties and sanctions. Such designations have come through a...

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The Art of War in Egypt

2017 Carnegie Egypt Maged Mandour Military Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

January 24, 2017 03:37 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Maged Mandour Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/67781 Since Abdel Fattah el-Sisi became president in June 2014, the Egyptian military has embarked on a massive spending spree. The value of arms transfer agreements Egypt signed in 2015 was the second-largest among developing countries, at $11.9 billion. This included $5.9 billion from France...

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