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SPECIAL BRIEFING: Attacks Against Security Forces Continue in Egypt’s North Sinai

2017 Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Unknown

September 11, 2017 05:53 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/special-reports/special-briefing-attacks-against-Security-forces-continue-in-egypts-north-sinai/ RECENT DEVELOPMENTS Wilayat Sinai, the Islamic State’s affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula, on Monday claimed responsibility for an attack on a police convoy on the Qantara-Arish Road in the Taloul...

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Egypt’s Ban on Church Trips Sends Dangerous Message

2017 Human Rights Ishak Ibrahim Minorities Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

September 01, 2017 05:52 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Ishak Ibrahim Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypts-ban-on-church-trips-sends-dangerous-message/ Coptic monasteries and moulids, the celebrations of saints that bring hundreds of thousands of pilgrims and visitors to holy sites across Egypt, are usually overflowing during the summer. But this year, they are almost...

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Egypt Softens Tone in U.S. Relations

2017 Dalia Rabie Egypt Foreign Relations Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

August 30, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Dalia Rabie Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypt-softens-tone-in-u-s-relations/ Prior to President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi’s first visit to the White House in April, it was reported that his United States counterpart, Donald Trump, sought to “reboot” the countries’ bilateral relations. It wasn’t long before Egypt’s media...

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SPECIAL BRIEFING: Developments in U.S.-Egypt Aid Relationship

2017 Civil Society Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Human Rights Military Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Unknown

August 24, 2017 03:33 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/special-briefing-developments-in-u-s-egypt-aid-relationship/ RECENT DEVELOPMENTS UPDATE, September 7, 2017: On September 6, the office of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), vice-chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, issued a summary of the Senate’s State, Foreign Operations, and...

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Tiran and Sanafir: Developments, Dynamics, and Implications

2017 Democracy and Politics Egypt Foreign Relations Judicial Affairs Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Unknown

August 09, 2017 03:38 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/special-reports/tiran-and-sanafir-developments-dynamics-and-implications/ Summary: On June 24, 2017, President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi officially signed into effect the controversial Tiran and Sanafir agreement, giving Saudi Arabia sovereignty over the two Red Sea islands at the mouth of the...

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Measuring Success in Egypt’s War on Terror

2017 Allison Mcmanus Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

July 27, 2017 05:53 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Allison McManus Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/measuring-success-in-egypts-war-on-terror/ The Egyptian Ministry of Defense posted a grainy video to its YouTube channel on Monday: A vehicle slowly approaches a checkpoint south of Arish. Nearby cars drive away and people scatter as a military tank crushes the vehicle...

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Egypt’s Ad Campaign for Investment Law Glosses over Economic Challenges

2017 Economy Judicial Affairs Mohamed El Dahshan Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

July 20, 2017 05:54 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Mohamed El Dahshan Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypts-ad-campaign-for-investment-law-glosses-over-economic-challenges/ A television commercial showed beautiful young people walking out on their daily jobs, launching a homemade jam company, a food truck, or a designer furniture store. A voiceover promised that the...

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Egypt’s Payroll Is Fine, but Its Revenues Are Too Low

2017 Economy Osama Diab Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

July 05, 2017 05:56 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Osama Diab Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypts-payroll-is-fine-but-its-revenues-are-too-low/ Throughout June, the Egyptian cabinet and parliament debated a budget for the 2017–18 fiscal year, which began on July 1. The budget has been referred to in Egypt as the “IMF budget” due to the number of restrictions in an...

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How the Egyptian Church Secures Itself

2017 Egypt Jayson Casper Minorities Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

June 21, 2017 03:35 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Jayson Casper Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/how-the-egyptian-church-secures-itself/ This past Palm Sunday two suicide bombers killed over 45 people at two churches in northern Egypt. One made his way all the way to the altar at St. George’s Cathedral in the Nile Delta city of Tanta, while the other

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TIMEP Brief: European Arms Sales to Egypt

2017 Egypt Foreign Relations Military Affairs Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Unknown

June 13, 2017 03:37 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/timep-brief-european-arms-sales-to-egypt/ Although the United States continues to be its chief provider, Egypt has diversified its weapons supply, purchasing more arms from Europe and Russia since 2014 than ever before. Europe and Russia have welcomed sales to Egypt (and the rest...

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Regional Agreements and Authoritarian Measures in Egypt

2017 Democracy and Politics Egypt Foreign Relations Mohamad Adam Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

June 02, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Mohamad Adam Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/regional-agreements-and-authoritarian-measures-in-egypt/ Last Monday, a picture was taken in Saudi Arabia of a glowing globe controlled by the six hands of the King Salman of Saudi Arabia, President Donald Trump of the United States, and President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi of...

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A Monetary Theory of Everything: “Printing” New Money and Egypt’s Economic Ills

2017 Economy Osama Diab Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

May 30, 2017 05:56 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Osama Diab Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/a-monetary-theory-of-everything-printing-new-money-and-egypts-economic-ills/ Last week, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) unexpectedly decided to raise interest rates by two percentage points to mitigate spiraling inflation. While academic economists and observers of financial...

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