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How Social Media Undermined Egypt’s Democratic Transition

2016 Carnegie Deen Freelon Democracy and Politics Marc Lynch Media Paper Sean Aday

October 07, 2016 05:52 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Marc Lynch, Deen Freelon, Sean Aday Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/10/07/how-social-media-undermined-egypt-s-democratic-transition-pub-64830 Egypt’s 2011 uprising has become synonymous with the successful use of social media to overthrow an entrenched authoritarian regime. Popular and academic literature hold it up as the paradigm of...

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Egypt’s Parliament Opens the Door for More Repression

2016 Amr Hamzawy Carnegie Judicial Affairs Paper

September 22, 2016 05:54 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Hamzawy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/09/22/egypt-s-parliament-opens-door-for-more-repression-pub-64666 Recently, Egypt’s parliament has approved — without revision — almost all of the 342 presidential-decree laws issued by then-Interim President Adly Mansour and by President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi. Despite the clear autocratic nature...

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Like a Hole in the Head

2016 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Egypt Michele Dunne Paper

September 21, 2016 03:46 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/64611 When an Egyptian delegation heads to Quito for the October 17-20 Habitat III conference—a United Nations gathering of government officials, city planners, and urbanization experts that takes place once every 20 years—perennial issues, such as the availability of affordable housing and how to...

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The Shrinking Independence of Egypt’s Labor Unions

2016 Carnegie Civil Society Paper Unknown

September 20, 2016 05:52 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Giuseppe Acconcia Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/64634 President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is turning against the unions that have helped put him in power. The state has set its sights on the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (Al-Ittihad al-Masri lil-Naqabat al-Mustaqilla, EFITU), which operates as a large umbrella of...

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A New Law in Old Bottles

2016 Carnegie Egypt Georges Fahmi Judicial Affairs Minorities Paper

September 16, 2016 03:34 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Dr Georges Fahmi Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/64602 At the end of August the Egyptian parliament passed a law on the construction and restoration of churches. It is the first law to regulate such construction, which was previously governed by vague rules based on administrative decisions issued in the 1930s, and that placed many...

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Rescuing the Sinking Ship

2016 Amr Adly Carnegie Economy Egypt Paper

August 22, 2016 03:41 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Adly Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/2016/08/22/rescuing-sinking-ship-pub-64396 Just last week, the Egyptian government and a delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reached a staff-level agreement about a 12 billion US-dollar loan package. Egypt hopes to restore confidence in its crippled economy and attract more investors. But is...

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Egypt Discovery Transforms Petroleum Outlook in Eastern Mediterranean

2016 Carnegie Carole Nakhle Economy Egypt Paper

August 16, 2016 03:41 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Carole Nakhle Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/2016/08/16/egypt-discovery-transforms-petroleum-outlook-in-eastern-mediterranean-pub-64336 When it comes to oil and gas exploration and production, Egypt is in a different league than its neighbors in the Eastern Mediterranean. Its oil activity spans more than one century and the country enjoys a...

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Egypt’s Oil Dependency and Political Discontent

2016 Amr Adly Carnegie Democracy and Politics Economy Paper

August 02, 2016 05:56 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Adly Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/2016/08/02/egypt-s-oil-dependency-and-political-discontent-pub-64224 Snapshot: More than five years after the overthrow of then president Hosni Mubarak, the structural shortcomings that characterized the Egyptian economy before the January 2011 uprising remain in place. At the time, these contributed to the...

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Egypt’s Regime Faces an Authoritarian Catch-22

2016 Amr Adly Carnegie Democracy and Politics Economy Paper

July 21, 2016 05:56 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amr Adly Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/2016/07/21/egypt-s-regime-faces-authoritarian-catch-22-pub-64135 The regime of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is stuck between a rock and a hard place. The country’s current economic crisis deprives the regime of the financial and economic resources needed to sustain a solid social base among public...

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Egypt’s Ad Hoc Economy

2016 Carnegie Economy Mohamed Elmeshad Paper

July 20, 2016 05:55 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Mohamed ElMeshad Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/64140 President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has portrayed himself as a figure who could bring not only political but also economic stability. His government periodically outlines broad economic plans, most recently the 2016-17 budget put forth by Prime Minister Sherif Ismail in March, which set...

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Egypt’s Loyal Opposition

2016 Carnegie Chritstopher J. Cox Democracy and Politics Paper

June 29, 2016 05:56 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Chritstopher J. Cox Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/63961 With the Muslim Brotherhood routed, grassroots activists imprisoned or facing arrest, growing media censorship, and repression of journalists and human rights activists, Egypt’s smaller opposition political parties remain one of the few formally tolerated avenues of opposition...

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Sisi Sours on the Media

2016 Carnegie Egypt Media Mohamed Elmeshad Paper

April 29, 2016 03:34 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Mohamed ElMeshad Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/63493 On April 13, 2016, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi held a 93-minute “conversation with representatives of the general public” that was in essence a speech. After the one and only attempt by an attendee to contribute, Sisi thundered, “I did not give anyone permission to speak!”...

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