Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Judy Dempsey Original Link: http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/60260 For many months, Egypt’s top diplomats have been trying to persuade Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, to invite Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to Berlin. And for many months, Merkel refused. She insisted that Egypt should first hold parliamentary elections. Elections...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Paul Salem Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/egypts-short-and-long-term-challenges In the year since being elected to the presidency, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has consolidated a ruling coalition, restored economic growth, and brought back considerable stability to the country after four years of turmoil. But this has come with a harsh crackdown...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Anthony C. Zinni Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/rebuilding-us-egyptian-strategic-relationship President Obama’s decision to lift the freeze on delivery of military aid to Egypt was the right thing to do to shore up a key strategic alliance in a region where risks to U.S. security are multiplying rapidly. The United States needs Egypt’s...
Learn MoreSource: Brookings Institute Author(s): Tamara Cofman Wittes Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2015/04/06/obama-administration-to-sissi-egypt-bound-weapons-released-with-caveat/ On Tuesday, President Obama called Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi and conveyed news of long-brewing decisions in the Obama administration regarding U.S. military aid to Egypt – including the...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Ishak Ibrahim Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypt-responds-to-the-beheading-of-copts-by-is-in-libya/ Yesterday, Egyptians marked the culmination of the traditional, forty-day period of mourning for the twenty Egyptians and one Ghanaian beheaded by the Islamic State (IS) branch in Tripoli, Libya. Even as religious...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Yezid Sayigh Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/2015/03/05/mirage-of-egypt-s-regional-role-and-libyan-temptation-pub-59250 Much is being made of signs of a reinvigorated Egyptian foreign policy. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s trips to Moscow in 2014 and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s return visit to Cairo in February 2015, during which...
Learn MoreSource: German Institute For Security And International Affairs Author(s): Tobias von Lossow, Dr. Stephan Roll Original Link: https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/egypts-nile-water-policy/ Snapshot: Under Abdel Fatah al-Sisi Egypt has moderated its stance in the Nile water dispute with Ethiopia, the most important state upstream. In the conflict over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...
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