Source: Madamasr Author(s): Mostafa Mohie Original Link: https://madamasr.com/en/2018/10/05/feature/politics/40-years-on-what-did-egyptians-make-of-peace-with-israel/ “You won’t believe how Egyptians react to the Israeli flag being flown for the first time in Cairo in 1980,” reads the title of a YouTube video featuring brief segments from the opening ceremony of the first Israeli Embassy in...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Wael Gamal Original Link: https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/77391 In fiscal year 2017–2018, ending in June, Egypt’s GDP grew by 5.3 percent. This was the highest growth rate since 2007–2008, when the economy grew by 7.2 percent, just before it was hit by the global economic crisis and political instability starting in early 2011. However, despite such
Learn MoreSource: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Khaled Ashour Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypts-position-on-global-indices-declining/ International indices and reports are periodically produced by international institutions, whether governmental or independent, for those who are interested in understanding what is going on in the world and its expected trends in the future...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Khalid Abu-Ismail Original Link: https://theforum.erf.org.eg/2018/10/01/galal-amin-egyptian-middle-class/ A sense of ‘defeat’ among the Egyptian middle class was the main motivation for the uprising of 25 January 2011. In a tribute to economics professor Galal Amin, who passed away last month, this column explores what his analysis would suggest lay...
Learn MoreSource: Madamasr Author(s): Original Link: https://madamasr.com/en/2018/09/27/feature/politics/egypt-backs-out-of-verbal-agreement-on-4-7-year-timeframe-to-fill-ethiopian-renaissance-dam-reservoir/ The irrigation ministers of Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan met on Tuesday in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa to be briefed on the latest recommendations on the time frame to fill the Grand Ethiopian...
Learn MoreSource: Atlantic Council Author(s): Elissa Miller Original Link: http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/egypt-leads-the-pack-in-internet-censorship-across-the-middle-east Internet censorship around the world, including in the Middle East, is not a new phenomenon. Freedom of expression facilitated by the internet can pose a threat to authoritarian leaders around the world who seek to...
Learn MoreSource: Human Rights Watch Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/08/16/egypt-campaign-crush-artistic-freedom The Egyptian authorities have arrested over a dozen people in a crackdown against artists, apparently prosecuting them for exercising their freedom of speech, Human Rights Watch said today. The government also has issued new decrees to severely curtail freedom of expression...
Learn MoreSource: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Hussein Duqeil Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/will-monaco-exhibition-return-tourism-to-egypt/ IOn Friday, 6 July, 2018, “The Golden Treasures of Pharaohs” Exhibition was inaugurated in the Principality of Monaco by the Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled el-Anani and Prince Albert II of Monaco. The exhibition was held under the...
Learn MoreSource: Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights Author(s): Original Link: https://eipr.org/en/publications/sale-prison-canteen-%E2%80%9Caqrab%E2%80%9D-prison Whether in “Aqrab” or Tora Farm, Qanater or Minya prison, there is a need to investigate and address the deepening marketization of prison life: how prisoners’ most basic needs—those that the prison authorities are required to provide by...
Learn MoreSource: European Council on Foreign Relations Author(s): Anthony Dworkin Original Link: https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_egypts_judicial_theatre_of_injustice As European governments look to Egypt as a partner, the country’s human rights record continues to suffer with an escalating use of executions More than five years after Egyptian security forces violently broke up a Muslim...
Learn MoreSource: Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Original Link: https://cihrs.org/aiding-repression-in-egypt/?lang=en Human Rights First and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) today released a new report detailing the severe crackdown on peaceful dissent and nongovernmental organizations in Egypt under the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The new report, Aiding...
Learn MoreSource: MadaMasr Author(s): Ahmad Shehada Original Link: https://www.madamasr.com/en/2018/09/20/feature/politics/palestinian-authority-readies-new-round-of-sanctions-on-gaza-as-egyptian-mediation-breaks-down/ The fraught relationship between Hamas and Fatah is set to face another obstacle, as Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas prepares to apply a new round of punitive measures...
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