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2020 Year in Review

2020Culture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptMiddle East InstituteMirette F. Mabrouk Mirette F. Mabrouk Paper
December 14, 2020 14:56 pm
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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Mirette F. Mabrouk Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/blog/2020-year-review A look back at the year’s most important developments with analysis from Paul Salem, Alex Vatanka, Randa Slim, Gerald Feierstein, Gonul Tol, Jonathan M. Winer, Khaled Elgindy, Marvin G. Weinbaum, Mirette F. Mabrouk, Grace Wermenbol, Syed Mohammad Ali, Robert S. Ford, and...

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The Arab Spring at Ten Years: What’s the Legacy of the Uprisings?

2020Civil SocietyCouncil On Foreign RelationsCulture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptKali RobinsonPaper
December 04, 2020 15:29 pm
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Source: Council on Foreign Relations Author(s): Kali Robinson Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/article/arab-spring-ten-years-whats-legacy-uprisings Ten years on, the lives of people in Arab Spring countries have improved in certain aspects but worsened in others. CFR.org visualizes the changes in Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen. Read more at original link

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The Massacre of Minarets in Al-Azhar’s Egypt

2020Amer Abdel MoneimCivil SocietyCulture, Education and DevelopmentEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesIslamic Movements and InstitutionsPaper
December 02, 2020 15:12 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Amer Abdel Moneim Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/the-massacre-of-minarets-in-al-azhars-egypt/ Egypt’s mosques are exposed to continued government campaigns to limit their role, disrupt their mission, and reduce their influence in Egyptian society. This hostility to mosques culminated in demolition of scores of them and destruction of...

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The Army is Not the Winner in Border Battlefields

2020Allison McmanusCulture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptItalian Institute for International Political StudiesMilitary AffairsPaper
December 01, 2020 15:17 pm
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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Allison McManus Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/army-not-winner-border-battlefields-28505 As Egypt approaches the ten-year anniversary of uprisings against former president Hosni Mubarak, wins and losses of the past decade have come into a clear focus. The military, above all, has emerged as a...

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The Sisi Firewall

2020Arab Center Washington DCCivil SocietyCulture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsDoha InstituteEgyptMostafa El-Sayed HussinPaper
October 26, 2020 15:01 pm
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Source: Doha Institute Author(s): Mostafa El-Sayed Hussin Original Link: https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/PoliticalStudies/Pages/The-Sisi-Firewall-Cyber-Suppression-Strategies-and-the-Future-of-Cyberspace-in-Egypt.aspx On 25 January 2011, the Mubarak regime woke up to its worst nightmare: thousands of Egyptians on the streets demonstrating in response to a Facebook invitation. The state was...

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When Private Isn’t Private: The Blurred Lines of Regime-Owned Enterprises in Egypt

2020Culture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEconomyEgyptPaperThe Tahrir Institute For Middle East PolicyTimothy E. Kaldas
October 09, 2020 13:52 pm
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Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Timothy E. Kaldas Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/when-private-isnt-private-the-blurred-lines-of-regime-owned-enterprises-in-egypt/ Once again, Egypt has received financing from the IMF, and once again the IMF has pledged that funding will contribute to a reform program designed to lead to inclusive private...

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Disinformation Campaign Targets Rape Victim and Witnesses in Egypt

2020Civil SocietyCulture, Education and DevelopmentEgyptHuman RightsJoey SheaPaperThe Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy
October 08, 2020 14:02 pm
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Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Joey Shea Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/disinformation-campaign-targets-rape-victim-and-witnesses-in-egypt/ Egypt’s sexual assault reckoning intensified at the end of August when witnesses and campaigners involved in bringing to light a horrific gang-rape were arrested and smeared. Private...

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Will the lights stay on in Egypt?

2020Culture, Education and DevelopmentEconomyEgyptHisham FahmyMiddle East InstitutePaper
October 07, 2020 14:25 pm
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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Hisham Fahmy Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/publications/will-lights-stay-egypt In the blistering summer of 2014, Egyptians were facing spontaneous electricity blackouts for up to six hours a day, waiting hours in gas station lines often long enough to stretch across entire neighborhoods, and enduring hundreds of terrorist attacks...

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Egypt: A Reading of the ‘Galabiya Protests’

2020Asmaa ShukrCivil SocietyCulture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEconomyEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesPaper
October 07, 2020 14:18 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Asmaa Shokr Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-a-reading-of-the-galabiya-protests/ The public opinion, both at home and abroad, has recently been preoccupied with the Egyptian issue after a whole week of the demonstrations that erupted in several Egyptian governorates and villages, demanding the departure of Sisi and his regime, due...

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Egypt: Protests to Set Limits for Gov. Policies

2020Civil SocietyCulture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesPaperWessam Fauad
September 30, 2020 14:58 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Wessam Fauad Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-protests-to-set-limits-for-gov-policies/ Egypt had already witnessed a popular movement in September of last year, after Egyptian businessman “Mohamed Ali” on September 20, 2019, called on Egyptians to gather in front of their homes in protest against Sisi’s corrupt regime, under the...

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Egypt’s Prospects as an Energy Export Hub Across Three Continents

2020Culture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEconomyEgyptForeign RelationsItalian Institute for International Political StudiesMichaël TanchumPaper
September 24, 2020 15:56 pm
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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Michaël Tanchum Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/egypts-prospects-energy-export-hub-across-three-continents-27408 Egypt is on the threshold of becoming a natural gas and electricity export hub, a development which, if it materializes, carries the potential to radically reconfigure the pattern of...

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Egypt’s Repression Against Civil Society

2020Andrea TetiCivil SocietyCulture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptGennaro GervasioHuman RightsItalian Institute for International Political StudiesPaper
September 24, 2020 15:28 pm
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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Gennaro Gervasio and Andrea Teti Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/egypts-repression-against-civil-society-27414 On August 25th, 2020, the Director and co-founder of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Bahey Eldin Hasan was found guilty of “publishing false news” and “insulting the...

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