Using SNS to Combat Egyptian Child Trafficking

Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/using-sns-combat-egyptian-child-trafficking In recent years, Egyptians have increasingly used social networking sites (SNS) to fight the prevalence of child trafficking and kidnappings. Alongside state authorities and traditional means, such as publishing...

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Egypt: Satire Suppressed: The Arrest of Street Children as Seen on SNS

Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/egypt-satire-suppressed-arrest-street-children-seen-sns On May 10, an Egyptian court sentenced four members of the satirical street theater troupe, “Street Children” (Atfal Soara), to 15 days in prison. The young men were accused of using social...

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The Tiran and Sanafir Islands at the Heart of an Online Protest

Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/tiran-and-sanafir-islands-heart-online-protest In April 2016, the Egyptian government announced the signing of an agreement which transferred control of Tiran and Sanafir Islands from Egyptian to Saudi Arabian sovereignty. Since then, there has been heated...

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Beehive: A Crisis of Trust between Young Egyptians and the al-Sisi Regime

Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/beehive-crisis-trust-between-young-egyptians-and-al-sisi-regime In late December 2015, students from 24 universities across Egypt launched a widespread protest on social networking sites (SNS) against the involvement of the Egyptian Ministry of Education in...

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Iqtisadi: Hosni Mubarak’s Economic and Social Policies in Perspective

Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Moshe Efrat Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/iqtisadi-hosni-mubarak%E2%80%99s-economic-and-social-policies-perspective Four years after the revolution in Egypt it is clear that toppling Hosni Mubarak was not the real challenge, improving the nation’s ailing economy was the real test. One of the main...

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Iqtisadi: The Good News from Egypt – and the Bad

Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Paul Rivlin Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/iqtisadi-good-news-egypt-%E2%80%93-and-bad At the beginning of August 2015, President ʿAbd al-Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated the expansion of the Suez Canal project. It added 35 kilometers (km) of new channels to the existing canal, forming a parallel side channel...

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Tel Aviv Notes: The “Sisi-Meter” is Ticking: ʿAbd al-Fattah al-Sisi and the Challenges Facing Egypt

Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Mira Tzoreff Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/tel-aviv-notes-%E2%80%9Csisi-meter%E2%80%9D-ticking-%CA%BFabd-al-fattah-al-sisi-and-challenges-facing-egypt In ʿAbd al-Fattah al-Sisi’s first television interview during the 2014 presidential campaign, he promised Egyptian citizens that they would begin feeling...

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Tel Aviv Notes: Soccer deaths and Egypt’s Security Forces

Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): James M. Dorsey Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/tel-aviv-notes-soccer-deaths-and-egypt%E2%80%99s-Security and Counter-Terrorism-forces A stampede at a Cairo stadium in February[1], much like a deadly, politically-loaded soccer brawl in the Suez Canal city of Port Said three years ago, has cast a spotlight...

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Tel Aviv Notes: Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections: The Death of Politics?

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/tel-aviv-notes-egypts-parliamentary-elections-death-politics Egypt is in the midst of its first parliamentary elections since the army’s ouster of President Mohammed Morsi more than two years ago. These elections constitute the third and...

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