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What the Economic Conference Got Right, and Wrong, in Sharm el-Sheikh: The Scorecard

2015 Economy Egypt Mohamed El Dahshan Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

March 25, 2015 03:45 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Mohamed El Dahshan Original Link: https://timep.org/special-reports/what-the-economic-conference-got-right-and-wrong-in-sharm-el-sheikh-the-scorecard/ “Today is not the time for criticizing. Today is the time for cheerleading. Tomorrow, we criticize,” said my venture capitalist friend, responding to my skeptical comments after we...

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How Egyptian Mainstream Media Cover the War on Terror

2015 Egypt Kareem Farid Media Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

March 23, 2015 03:34 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Kareem Farid Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/how-egyptian-mainstream-media-cover-the-war-on-terror/ Around seven o’clock p.m. on January 29, 2015, social media websites reported that a terrorist attack had hit three North Sinai cities of Rafah, al-Arish, and Sheikh Zuweid. Questions regarding the attacks—the apparent...

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What Egypt Should Realistically Expect from the Economic Development Conference

2015 Economy Egypt Mohamed El Dahshan Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

March 13, 2015 03:45 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Mohamed El Dahshan Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/what-egypt-should-realistically-expect-from-the-economic-development-conference/ Egypt’s Economic Development Conference (EEDC), launches this weekend in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Its stakes, in Egypt at least, seem to be getting higher by the minute. The...

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Egypt’s Elections on Pause

2015 Democracy and Politics May El-Sadany Nathan J. Brown Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

March 06, 2015 05:56 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, May El-Sadany Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypts-elections-on-pause/ With so many provisions littering Egypt’s legal landscape (many of which contain broad language and allow various bodies wide discretion), Egypt manages to combine a legalistic order with an uncertain one. Senior officials...

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Policing Football in Times of Exception

2015 Culture, Education and Development Democracy and Politics Egypt Karim Medhat Ennarah Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

February 24, 2015 03:37 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Karim Medhat Ennarah Original Link: https://timep.org/special-reports/policing-football-in-times-of-exception/ On February 8, 2015, at least 19 fans died while waiting to enter the Air Defense Stadium for the match between Zamalek and ENPPI – it was the first Egyptian league game to allow spectators, albeit a small number, after...

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The Menace of Collective Punishment and Lack of Due Diligence in Egypt

2015 Adel Ramadan Egypt Human Rights Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

February 11, 2015 03:40 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Adel Ramadan Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/the-menace-of-collective-punishment-and-lack-of-due-diligence-in-egypt/ “As long as murder is committed collectively, punishment is imposed collectively,” Judge Mohammed Nagy Shehata said in a television interview on February 2, 2015 – the day the Giza Criminal Court issued...

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Egypt’s Long Walk to Despotism

2015 Amro Ali Democracy and Politics Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

January 21, 2015 05:56 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Amro Ali Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypt-despotism/ There is a menacing wind sweeping through Egypt engulfing bureaucrats, journalists, judges, celebrities, and the average “patriotic citizen” in its path, remolding them into carriers of despotic ideas. This system is not a clear-cut case of top-down power...

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