Sisi Intensifies Arms Imports to Secure External Support for His Policies

Source: Arab Center Washington DC Author(s): Khalil Al-Anani Original Link: https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/sisi-intensifies-arms-imports-to-secure-external-support-for-his-policies/ Egypt has become the third largest arms importer in the world, according to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The institute’s “Trends in International Arms Transfers” report reveals that...

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Egypt: The crisis of fertilizers and impoverishment of farmers

Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Abdel-Tawab Barakat Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-the-crisis-of-fertilizers-and-impoverishment-of-farmers/ On 18 November 2021, the Egyptian government decided to increase the price of nitrogenous fertilizers from EGP 3,290 to EGP 4,500 per ton, an increase of about 37%, which means raising the price of a 50-kg package from EGP...

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Military Classism: Disparity of resources bet. Military Fund & Doctors Fund

Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Abbas Qabbari Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/military-classism-disparity-of-resources-bet-military-fund-doctors-fund/ This paper seeks to monitor what can be called Symbiotic Services Funds to which the Egyptian regime has resorted excessively since 2013, where the government has established dozens of funds according to official laws or...

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Ebb of Justice: Egypt’s Constitutional Court as Veto Player in International Disputes

Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Nourhan Fahmy Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/ebb-of-justice-egypts-constitutional-court-as-veto-player-in-international-disputes/ Amid a resurgence in international prosecutions and transnational modes of legal accountability, various states implicated in human rights violations have grown wary about potential legal...

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The Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian State

Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Mohamed Affan Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/the-muslim-brotherhood-and-the-egyptian-state/ The 3 July military coup (2013) and the bloody events that that coincided with and followed it, most notably the dispersal of the Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda sit-ins, marked the climax of the seven-decade long clash between the State and the...

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Gender and economic vulnerability in Egypt’s labour market

Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Caroline Krafft and Ragui Assaad Original Link: https://theforum.erf.org.eg/2022/01/25/gender-economic-vulnerability-egypts-labour-market/ The past decade has presented both new challenges and new opportunities for the Egyptian labour market. This column outlines the findings of a new book focused on the extent to which the country has been able to...

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Egypt and the many knots on human rights

Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Alessia Melcangi Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/it/pubblicazione/legitto-e-i-tanti-nodi-sui-diritti-umani-33097 If foreign policy Egypt continues to play a leading game in the complex Middle Eastern chessboard and with its main international partners, showing a strategy based on diplomacy and dialogue, at the...

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Evolution and Future of Egyptian External Debt

Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Ahmed Zikrallah Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/evolution-and-future-of-egyptian-external-debt%ef%bf%bc/ The Egyptian debts have become a major source of foreign exchange to Egyptian economy since the country’s financial control agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in late 2016. The successive surges in the figures of...

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Egypt’s foreign economic transactions within the next 3 years

Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Ahmed Zikrallah Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypts-foreign-economic-transactions-within-the-next-3-years%ef%bf%bc/ The balance of payments is the window through which the national economy overlooks the global economy and vice versa, being the record of all economic transactions that link the national economy to the global economy...

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