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ʿAbd al-Fattah al-Sisi’s “Rehabilitation of Anwar al-Sadat”

2019 Culture, Education and Development Egypt Foreign Relations Mira Tzoreff Paper The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

December 15, 2019 19:08 pm

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies Author(s): Mira Tzoreff Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/abd-al-fattah-al-sisis-rehabilitation-anwar-al-sadat In his 1882 lecture titled “What is a nation?,” the French philosopher Ernest Renan claimed that “the essence of a nation is that all of its members have a great deal in common and also that that they have...

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“First of all, I am an Egyptian citizen, and afterwards a Christian”: The Coptic Church in Egypt between religion and politics, as reflected on social media

2019 Civil Society Culture, Education and Development Egypt Judicial Affairs Media Michael Barak Minorities Paper The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

January 06, 2019 16:48 pm

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/first-all-i-am-egyptian-citizen-and-afterwards-christian-coptic-church-egypt-between The increasingly close relationship between the Egyptian Coptic Church and the Egyptian regime, since 2013 headed by Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, has long been greeted with mixed...

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The Demise of Islamism in Egypt? – The Dissolution of al-Gamaʿa al-Islamiyya’s “Building and Development” Party

2017 Democracy and Politics Islamic Movements and Institutions Michael Barak Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

December 01, 2017 05:53 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/demise-islamism-egypt-dissolution-al-gama%CA%BFa-al-islamiyya%E2%80%99s-building-and-development-party On October 27, Egypt’s high court ordered the dissolution of the “Building and Development” (Al Binaʾ wa al-Tanmiyya) Party, the political wing...

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Nostalgia for the Monarchy in Egypt

2017 Culture, Education and Development Egypt Joyce Van De Bildt - De Jong Paper The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

December 01, 2017 03:37 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Joyce van de Bildt – de Jong Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/nostalgia-monarchy-egypt-english “May God have mercy on your days… If only another [like you] would come!”[1] In recent years, this melancholic homage to King Faruq has appeared repeatedly on Facebook pages that romanticize the Egyptian...

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The Attack on the al-Rawdah Mosque

2017 Adam Hoffman Egypt Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

December 01, 2017 03:36 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Adam Hoffman Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/attack-al-rawdah-mosque The bloody attack on the al-Rawdah Mosque in Northern Sinai, which killed 305 people, is now considered the deadliest terrorist attack in Egypt’s modern history… Read more at original link.

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1095 Days of al-Sisi’s Presidency: The Upcoming Egyptian Presidential Elections on SNS

2017 Democracy and Politics Media Michael Barak Paper The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

September 30, 2017 05:52 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/1095-days-al-sisi%E2%80%99s-presidency-upcoming-egyptian-presidential-elections-sns Against the backdrop of preparations for the Egyptian presidential elections scheduled for April 2018, social networking sites (SNS) in Egypt have been, for several months...

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Sixth Anniversary of the January 25 Revolution

2017 Democracy and Politics Egypt Michael Barak Paper The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

January 30, 2017 03:47 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/sixth-anniversary-january-25-revolution January 25 marked six years since Egypt’s popular revolution, ousting former President Hosni Mubarak’s regime. The date sparked widespread discussion on social networking sites (SNS), in which hundreds of...

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Year of the Egyptian Woman

2017 Egypt Michael Barak Paper The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Women Affairs

January 30, 2017 03:36 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/year-egyptian-woman In March, three events related to women took place in Egypt, including International Women’s Day, Egyptian Women’s Day, and Mother’s Day,[1] which sparked a lively debate on social networking sites (SNS), especially among women, about the...

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The Egyptian Economy: The Plot Thickens

2017 Economy Egypt Paper Paul Rivlin The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

January 01, 2017 03:45 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Paul Rivlin Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/egyptian-economy-plot-thickens In recent years, Egypt’s shortage of foreign currency has resulted in a lack of basic goods such as food and fuel. As the demand for foreign currency exceeded the supply on official markets, the premium on the parallel

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From Great Expectations to Bitter Disappointment: Egypt’s Youth, After Three Years of al-Sisi’s Presidency

2016 Democracy and Politics Mira Tzoreff Paper The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Youth

December 30, 2016 05:56 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Mira Tzoreff Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/great-expectations-bitter-disappointment-egypt%E2%80%99s-youth-after-three-years-al-sisis-presidency Five years have passed since hundreds of thousands of youth first flooded Cairo’s Tahrir Square with the unequivocal and uncompromising demand: “Irhal!” (Get...

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Egypt’s Economy: The Agony Continues

2016 Economy Egypt Paper Paul Rivlin The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

December 30, 2016 03:45 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Paul RIvlin Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/egypts-economy-agony-continues With the expansion of the Suez Canal in August 2015, and the discovery of large reserves of natural gas in the Egyptian Mediterranean, there was a wave of optimism about the Egyptian economy (See: “The Good News from

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I’m a Tuk Tuk Graduate: Egypt’s Economic Situation Reflected In Social Networking Sites

2016 Economy Egypt Michael Barak Paper The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

December 30, 2016 03:45 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/im-tuk-tuk-graduate-egypts-economic-situation-reflected-social-networking-sites Social networking sites (SNS) in Egypt responded tumultuously to an al-Hayat TV-Egypt interview with Mustafa Abdel Azim al-Laithi, a 35-year-old Tuk Tuk (rickshaw taxi) driver...

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