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Obama administration to Sisi: Egypt-bound weapons released with caveat

2015 Egypt Foreign Relations Military Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Tamara Cofman Wittes The Brookings Institution

April 06, 2015 03:37 am

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Source: Brookings Institute Author(s): Tamara Cofman Wittes Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2015/04/06/obama-administration-to-sissi-egypt-bound-weapons-released-with-caveat/ On Tuesday, President Obama called Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi and conveyed news of long-brewing decisions in the Obama administration regarding U.S. military aid to Egypt – including the...

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Obama Embraces the Nixon Doctrine in Egypt

2015 Carnegie Egypt Human Rights Michele Dunne Paper Robert Kagan Security and Counter-Terrorism Youth

April 03, 2015 03:40 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne, Robert Kagan Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/04/03/obama-embraces-nixon-doctrine-in-egypt-pub-59649 Is Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi really an ally in our ongoing struggle against Islamic jihadism and terrorism in the Middle East? That seems to be the prevailing view these days. The Wall Street Journal’s Bret...

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Keeping Egypt’s Lights On

2015 Alfred Jasins Brendan Meighan Carnegie Democracy and Politics Economy Paper

March 31, 2015 05:54 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Brendan Meighan, Alfred Jasins Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/59594 After years of doing little to rectify Egypt’s energy and electricity troubles, the government has finally moved to pursue sustainability. Energy demand, fueled by government subsidies, had for years outpaced domestic production. This has led to a large subsidy bill...

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How to fill the implementation gap for inclusive growth: Case studies covering urban transportation sector development in Egypt

2015 Culture, Education and Development Economy Egypt Hideki Matsunaga Mayada Magdy Paper The Brookings Institution

March 31, 2015 03:37 am

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Source: Brookings Institute Author(s): Hideki Matsunaga, Mayada Magdy Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-to-fill-the-implementation-gap-for-inclusive-growth-case-studies-covering-urban-transportation-sector-development-in-egypt/ INTRODUCTION Since January 2011, Egypt has been going through a turbulent period with two regimes having been toppled by mass protests. Social...

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TACKLING EGYPT’S TRANSFORMATIONAL CHALLENGES

2015 Culture, Education and Development Democracy and Politics Economy Georgeta Vidican German Development Institute Paper Yasser Sherif

March 30, 2015 05:53 am

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Source: German Development Institute Author(s): Georgeta Vidican, Yasser Sherif Original Link: https://www.die-gdi.de/en/the-current-column/article/tackling-egypts-transformational-challenges/ Bonn, Cairo, 30 March 2015. From 13-15 March 2015 the Egyptian government organized a major international event, the “Egypt Economic Development Conference”, aimed at repositioning the country on the...

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Egypt Responds to the Beheading of Copts by IS in Libya

2015 Egypt Foreign Relations Ishak Ibrahim Minorities Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

March 28, 2015 03:34 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Ishak Ibrahim Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypt-responds-to-the-beheading-of-copts-by-is-in-libya/ Yesterday, Egyptians marked the culmination of the traditional, forty-day period of mourning for the twenty Egyptians and one Ghanaian beheaded by the Islamic State (IS) branch in Tripoli, Libya. Even as religious...

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The Egypt Economic Development Conference: Success or Failure?

2015 Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim Economy Egypt Middle East Institute Paper

March 26, 2015 03:45 am

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/egypt-economic-development-conference-success-or-failure Saudi Arabia’s late King Abdullah first conceived of the Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) as a means of supporting Egypt and its new government after the toppling of President Mohamed Morsi in June 2013. The plan was to...

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What the Economic Conference Got Right, and Wrong, in Sharm el-Sheikh: The Scorecard

2015 Economy Egypt Mohamed El Dahshan Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

March 25, 2015 03:45 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Mohamed El Dahshan Original Link: https://timep.org/special-reports/what-the-economic-conference-got-right-and-wrong-in-sharm-el-sheikh-the-scorecard/ “Today is not the time for criticizing. Today is the time for cheerleading. Tomorrow, we criticize,” said my venture capitalist friend, responding to my skeptical comments after we...

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The Egyptian Family House: Fostering Religious Unity

2015 Culture, Education and Development Egypt Islamic Movements and Institutions Jayson Casper Middle East Institute Minorities Paper

March 24, 2015 03:34 am

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Jayson Casper Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/egyptian-family-house-fostering-religious-unity Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has not been shy about the need to reform religious discourse and relations.[1] He is concerned about how the image of Islam has been marred by Muslims themselves, and how extremist thought has torn the fabric...

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How Egyptian Mainstream Media Cover the War on Terror

2015 Egypt Kareem Farid Media Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

March 23, 2015 03:34 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Kareem Farid Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/how-egyptian-mainstream-media-cover-the-war-on-terror/ Around seven o’clock p.m. on January 29, 2015, social media websites reported that a terrorist attack had hit three North Sinai cities of Rafah, al-Arish, and Sheikh Zuweid. Questions regarding the attacks—the apparent...

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Missed Opportunity: The Politics of Police Reform in Egypt and Tunisia

2015 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Egypt Paper Yezid Sayigh

March 17, 2015 03:46 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Yezid Sayigh Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/2015/03/17/missed-opportunity-politics-of-police-reform-in-egypt-and-tunisia-pub-59391 Snapshot: Police forces and security agencies genuinely accountable to democratically elected civilian authorities have not emerged in either Egypt or Tunisia four years after popular uprisings forced the countries’...

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Built on Sand: Egypt’s Questionable Strategy for Growth and Development

2015 Culture, Education and Development Democracy and Politics Economy German Institute For Security And International Affairs Matthias Seiler Paper Stephan Roll

March 15, 2015 05:53 am

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Source: German Institute For Security and Counter-Terrorism And International Affairs Author(s): Dr. Stephan Roll, Matthias Seiler Original Link: https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/egypts-questionable-strategy-for-growth-and-development/ The Egypt Economic Development Conference staged at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh from 13 to 15 March will showcase the country’s investment...

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