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The Arab League

2020 Council On Foreign Relations Democracy and Politics Egypt Foreign Relations Jonathan Masters Mohammed Aly Sergie Paper

February 19, 2020 20:33 pm

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Source: Council on Foreign Relations Author(s): Jonathan Masters and Mohammed Aly Sergie Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/arab-league Founded as a loose confederation of states in 1945, the Arab League has struggled to overcome dysfunction and disunity among its members. Read more at original link

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Why Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan should ditch a rushed, Washington-brokered Nile Treaty

2020 Addisu Lashitew Culture, Education and Development Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Paper The Brookings Institution

February 18, 2020 19:09 pm

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Source: Brookings Author(s): Addisu Lashitew Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2020/02/18/why-ethiopia-egypt-and-sudan-should-ditch-a-rushed-washington-brokered-nile-treaty/ The ambitious Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been a point of contention among Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan in recent years. The GERD is now 70 percent complete and its reservoir...

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The Secrets behind Breaking Noses of Egyptian Statues!

2020 Culture, Education and Development Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Foreign Relations Hussein Duqeil Paper

February 17, 2020 19:00 pm

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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Hussein Duqeil Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/the-secrets-behind-breaking-noses-of-egyptian-statues/ Visitors of Egyptian antiquities often notice that there are deformities in many statues and sculptures, which arouses questions in their minds about the causes of these deformities, when they occurred, and who was behind this?...

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Libyan Dilemma and Egyptian National Security

2020 Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Foreign Relations Omar Khalaf Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

January 31, 2020 20:18 pm

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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Omar Khalaf Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/libyan-dilemma-and-egyptian-national-security/ The recent mobilization of the political regime in Egypt against international interventions in Libya in favor of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) and its regional allies comes in the wake of the Turkish-Libyan memorandum of...

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Whose Lives Matter? An Equivocal Approach to American Detainees

2020 Allison Mcmanus Egypt Foreign Relations Human Rights Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

January 29, 2020 15:55 pm

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Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Allison Mcmanus Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/whose-lives-matter-an-equivocal-approach-to-american-detainees/ On January 13, Mustafa Kassem died tragically of heart failure in a cold cell in Egypt’s Tora Prison. Kassem, a U.S. citizen and by all accounts an innocent man who spent six and a half years in...

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Caught in a Debtor’s Prison

2020 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Nathan Toronto Paper

January 28, 2020 14:54 pm

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Source: Carnegie Author(s): Nathan Toronto Original Link: https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/80901 In Libya, Egypt is in a sort of debtor’s prison. Given the trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa since the so-called Arab Spring a decade ago, not to mention the 1,158 kilometer border shared with Libya and arms flows from the country to Sinai, Egypt’s involvement in

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Egypt’s Support of Khalifa Haftar: Forms and Motives

2020 Democracy and Politics Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Foreign Relations Mahmoud Gamal Military Affairs Paper

January 24, 2020 22:16 pm

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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Mahmoud Gamal Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypts-support-of-khalifa-haftar-forms-and-motives/ Since Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi came to power in Egypt after the military coup that he led against the first elected civilian president, Dr. Mohamed Morsi, on July 3, 2013, he has been working to change the doctrine of the Egyptian army. After...

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The Long-Term Revolution: Protest Participation in the Arab World From 2011 to 2019

2020 Civil Society Culture, Education and Development Democracy and Politics Egypt Eugenio Dacrema Foreign Relations Italian Institute for International Political Studies Paper

January 24, 2020 19:37 pm

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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Eugenio Dacrema Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/long-term-revolution-protest-participation-arab-world-2011-2019-24895 Over the last eight years, contentious actions such as street protests and sit-ins have been a constant presence in news reports from the MENA region. While a...

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Synergy in North Africa: Furthering Cooperation

2020 Chatham House Dr. Mohammed Masbah Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Mohamed El Dahshan Paper

January 21, 2020 19:26 pm

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Source: Chatham House Author(s): Dr. Mohammed Masbah and Mohamed El Dahshan Original Link: https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/synergy-north-africa-furthering-cooperation Discussions of North African integration have evoked ideas of a shared identity and a common destiny in the region. However, recent attempts to build regional blocs in North Africa have been unsuccessful. This paper...

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Under Mediterranean Skies: Channels for Deepening Israel-Egypt Relations

2020 Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Ofir Winter Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Institute For National Security Studies

January 21, 2020 19:20 pm

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Source: The Institute for National Security Studies Author(s): Ofir Winter Original Link: https://www.inss.org.il/publication/under-mediterranean-skies-channels-for-deepening-israel-egypt-relations/?offset=0&posts=undefined&outher=undefined&from_date=undefined&to_date=undefined On January 15, 2020, Minister of Energy Yuval Steinitz and his Egyptian counterpart, Tarek el-Molla...

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Egyptian official: Ethiopia dam negotiations in Washington ‘a disaster’

2020 Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Madamasr Paper

January 16, 2020 19:17 pm

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Source: Madamasr Author(s): Madamasr Original Link: https://madamasr.com/en/2020/01/16/feature/politics/egyptian-official-ethiopia-dam-negotiations-in-washington-a-disaster/ Three days of negotiations in Washington between the foreign and irrigation ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan ended on Wednesday without an agreement over the filling schedule for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...

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Safeguarding and celebrating Egypt’s traditional crafts

2020 Culture, Education and Development Egypt Foreign Relations Maria Golia Middle East Institute Paper

January 14, 2020 18:41 pm

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Maria Golia Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/publications/safeguarding-and-celebrating-egypts-traditional-crafts A recent contemporary art show mounted in the 13th century Qalawun Mosque in Old Cairo made an unintended point — that whatever the merits of the exhibited work, it was bound to be upstaged by the majestic setting with its...

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