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Matrouh: Egypt’s Linchpin in North Africa and the Mediterranean

2020Democracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsGiuseppe DenticeItalian Institute for International Political StudiesMilitary AffairsPaperSecurity and Counter-Terrorism
December 01, 2020 15:15 pm
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Source: Giuseppe Dentice Author(s): Italian Institute for International Political Studies Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/matrouh-egypts-linchpin-north-africa-and-mediterranean-28506 Over the last decade, the deep transformations moving through the broader Mediterranean region have created new opportunities and challenges. The Libyan crisis and the tensions in the...

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The Road to (In)stability: The Impact of Covid-19 on the Egyptian Economy

2020EconomyEgyptHealthItalian Institute for International Political StudiesPaperTimothy E. Kaldas
October 02, 2020 15:17 pm
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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Timothy E. Kaldas Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/road-instability-impact-covid-19-egyptian-economy-27495 As in many parts of the world, COVID-19 has brought into sharper relief the structural problems in Egypt’s economy. In many respects, these problems are far from new. Egypt’s economy has had...

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In Search of Balance: Egypt and the Great Powers

2020Democracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsItalian Institute for International Political StudiesNael ShamaPaper
September 24, 2020 16:39 pm
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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Nael Shama Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/search-balance-egypt-and-great-powers-27407 In his recently-published memoirs, Egypt’s former foreign minister, Nabil Fahmy, painted a clear picture of the prevalent mood inside Egypt’s ruling establishment concerning the country’s stance towards great...

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Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula: A Never-Ending Conflict

2020Democracy and PoliticsEgyptGuido OlimpioItalian Institute for International Political StudiesMilitary AffairsPaperSecurity and Counter-TerrorismSinai
September 24, 2020 16:21 pm
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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Guido Olimpio Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/egypt-sinai-peninsula-never-ending-conflict-27404 Check-points guarding the entrance to a village or road junction. In January and February, I crossed many of them in the southern regions of Egypt, on the Luxor-Aswan-Abu Simbel axis. The guards do not...

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Egypt’s Prospects as an Energy Export Hub Across Three Continents

2020Culture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEconomyEgyptForeign RelationsItalian Institute for International Political StudiesMichaël TanchumPaper
September 24, 2020 15:56 pm
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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Michaël Tanchum Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/egypts-prospects-energy-export-hub-across-three-continents-27408 Egypt is on the threshold of becoming a natural gas and electricity export hub, a development which, if it materializes, carries the potential to radically reconfigure the pattern of...

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A Two-Pronged Egyptian Strategy To Deal with the Libyan Chaos

2020Alessia MelcangiDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsItalian Institute for International Political StudiesMilitary AffairsPaperSecurity and Counter-Terrorism
September 24, 2020 15:30 pm
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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Alessia Melcangi Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/two-pronged-egyptian-strategy-deal-libyan-chaos-27488 The drums of war being beaten by Egyptian President ʿAbdel Fattah al-Sisi in June 2020 ‒ in response to the Government of National Accord (GNA) forces’ advance on the Sirte-Jufra frontline...

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Egypt’s Repression Against Civil Society

2020Andrea TetiCivil SocietyCulture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptGennaro GervasioHuman RightsItalian Institute for International Political StudiesPaper
September 24, 2020 15:28 pm
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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Gennaro Gervasio and Andrea Teti Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/egypts-repression-against-civil-society-27414 On August 25th, 2020, the Director and co-founder of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Bahey Eldin Hasan was found guilty of “publishing false news” and “insulting the...

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Authoritarian Governance in Egypt: A Return to the Past

2020Democracy and PoliticsEgyptItalian Institute for International Political StudiesMarina OttawayPaper
September 24, 2020 15:21 pm
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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Marina Ottaway Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/authoritarian-governance-egypt-return-past-27405 Egypt’s brief dalliance with free elections after the 2011 uprising led, perversely, to the most authoritarian government since the 1970s. Under the presidencies of Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak, the...

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The Nile Conflict and Egypt’s Failed Power Projection

2020Culture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEconomyEgyptForeign RelationsItalian Institute for International Political StudiesPaperStephan Roll
September 24, 2020 15:18 pm
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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Stephan Roll Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/nile-conflict-and-egypts-failed-power-projection-27406 The Nile River conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia still appears to be at an impasse. But even if an agreement is reached on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)...

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Egypt-Gulf Powers: Partners or Competitors?

2020Democracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsGawdat BahgatItalian Institute for International Political StudiesPaper
September 24, 2020 15:02 pm
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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Gawdat Bahgat Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/egypt-gulf-powers-partners-or-competitors-27402 One of the key developments in the Middle East in the last few decades has been the growing alliance between Egypt and some of the Gulf Cooperation Council states (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman...

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The Role of Egypt′s Armed Forces: A Military Empire

2020Amr HamzawyDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptItalian Institute for International Political StudiesMilitary AffairsNathan J. BrownPaper
September 24, 2020 14:50 pm
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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Nathan Brown and Amr Hamzawy Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/role-egypts-armed-forces-military-empire-27403 Since 2011, the Egyptian armed forces have played an unusual political role, at the center of Egyptian governance on a very wide range of matters. The set of crises imposed by the COVID-19...

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Political Islam and Secular Forces: The Struggle for Survival in Egypt

2020Democracy and PoliticsEgyptIslamic Movements and InstitutionsItalian Institute for International Political StudiesMichael Wahid HannaPaper
September 24, 2020 14:47 pm
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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Michael Wahid Hanna Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/political-islam-and-secular-forces-struggle-survival-egypt-27506 In the aftermath of Egypt’s July 2013 coup that ousted the Muslim Brotherhood President, Mohamed Morsi, and set the stage for the country’s current military-led political order...

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