Sayed Amin
Publications:Egypt Plunging in Falls of “Fake Patriotism” January 5, 2021
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January 05, 2021 16:25 pm
Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Sayed Amin Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-plunging-in-falls-of-fake-patriotism/ If someone asks you to look at “the fruitful tree”, this may imply that there are other “fruitless trees” nearby; and likewise, if you see a police patrol in Cairo streets with banners of “Egyptian Police” highlighted on vehicles, this may give an...
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Peter Schwartzstein is an environmental journalist who covers water scarcity, food security, and the conflict-climate nexus across the Middle East and North and East Africa for American and British magazines. He is also an environmental consultant and a nonresident fellow at the Center for Climate and Security. His website is www.pschwartzstein.com and he Tweets at
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Frezer Getachew Haile is an advisor, observer, and researcher on Ethiopia, with a particular focus on Nile hydro-politics. He holds a doctorate in geography from King’s College London. He currently advises the Ethiopian Embassy in London and has previously consulted at the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UN agencies in Africa and Asia.
Learn More2021 Preview: Looking to 2021 as a year of recovery
2021Culture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptMiddle East InstituteMirette F. Mabrouk Mirette F. Mabrouk Paper
January 04, 2021 15:58 pm
Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Mirette F. Mabrouk Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/blog/2021-preview-looking-2021-year-recovery The pandemic landed Egypt squarely in a quagmire in 2020, along with much of the rest of the world. However, its ability to drag itself out will depend almost entirely on its own governance and how it chooses to tackle the raft of institutional problems...
Learn MoreShifting Dynamics of Libyan – Egyptian Relationship: Calculations and Motives
January 03, 2021 15:44 pm
Source: Doha Institute Author(s): Unit for Politial Studies Original Link: https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/PoliticalStudies/Pages/Transformation-in-the-Libyan-Egyptian-Relationship-Calculations-and-Motives.aspx In the first step of its kind since mid-2014, an official Egyptian delegation arrived in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on Sunday 27 December 2020. The delegation included Deputy Head...
Learn MoreEgypt’s External Debt Exceeds $124 Billion
Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Mamdouh Al-Wali Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypts-external-debt-exceeds-124-billion/ The Egyptian external debt has been escalating since the army took over in July 2013, reaching $123.5 billion by the end of June 2020, compared to $43.2 billion at the end of June 2013, that is a rise of $80.3 billion, a growth rate of 186%, and...
Learn MoreLet justice be done: Respect for women’s land rights in the Middle East and North Africa
December 28, 2020 15:02 pm
Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Amal Kandeel Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/publications/let-justice-be-done-respect-womens-land-rights-middle-east-and-north-africa Ownership of economic resources is integral to exercising agency and to assuring the human security needed to live free from fear, want, and indignity. In agrarian societies, land and its natural resources are...
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December 23, 2020 15:21 pm
Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Wessam Fauad Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/recycling-pro-regime-political-elite-in-egypt/ The political elite loyal to the ruling regime in Egypt can be divided into four sub-divisions, namely: 1- The “decision-making elite”: which includes the loyal political elite responsible for making the state’s public policies; 2- The “backing...
Learn MoreFrom Free Space to a Tool of Oppression: What Happened to the Internet Since the Arab Spring?
2021Civil SocietyCulture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptMarwa FataftaMediaPaperThe Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy
December 20, 2020 15:56 pm
Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Marwa Fatafta Original Link: As we mark the tenth anniversary of the Arab Spring, we reflect on how increasingly authoritarian digital spaces have become. What tactics have authoritarian Arab governments added to their playbooks since? Read more at original link
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December 20, 2020 15:53 pm
Marwa Fatafta leads Access Now’s work on digital rights in the Middle East and North Africa region as the MENA Policy Manager. She is an advisory board member of the Palestinian digital rights organization 7amleh, and a policy analyst at Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network working on issues of political leadership, governance and accountability. Before
Learn MoreRoundtable: Keeping the Peace in the Nile Basin
2020Democracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsFrezer Getachew HailePaperPeter SchwartzsteinThe Century FoundationTimothy E. Kaldas
December 14, 2020 15:47 pm
Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): FREZER GETACHEW HAILE, TIMOTHY E. KALDAS AND PETER SCHWARTZSTEIN Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/keeping-peace-nile-basin/ The world’s longest river is not a happy place. For almost a decade, Egypt and Ethiopia have been locked in a war of words over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which Addis Ababa is building on the Blue...
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