Sisi Intensifies Arms Imports to Secure External Support for His Policies

Source: Arab Center Washington DC Author(s): Khalil Al-Anani Original Link: https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/sisi-intensifies-arms-imports-to-secure-external-support-for-his-policies/ Egypt has become the third largest arms importer in the world, according to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The institute’s “Trends in International Arms Transfers” report reveals that...

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Ebb of Justice: Egypt’s Constitutional Court as Veto Player in International Disputes

Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Nourhan Fahmy Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/ebb-of-justice-egypts-constitutional-court-as-veto-player-in-international-disputes/ Amid a resurgence in international prosecutions and transnational modes of legal accountability, various states implicated in human rights violations have grown wary about potential legal...

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Evolution and Future of Egyptian External Debt

Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Ahmed Zikrallah Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/evolution-and-future-of-egyptian-external-debt%ef%bf%bc/ The Egyptian debts have become a major source of foreign exchange to Egyptian economy since the country’s financial control agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in late 2016. The successive surges in the figures of...

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Egypt’s foreign economic transactions within the next 3 years

Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Ahmed Zikrallah Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypts-foreign-economic-transactions-within-the-next-3-years%ef%bf%bc/ The balance of payments is the window through which the national economy overlooks the global economy and vice versa, being the record of all economic transactions that link the national economy to the global economy...

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Sisi’s Transnational Repression: Silencing Political Dissidents in Exile

Source: Arab Center Washington DC Author(s): Khalil Al-Anani Original Link: https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/sisis-transnational-repression-silencing-political-dissidents-in-exile/ On January 6, the FBI arrested Pierre Girgis, an Egyptian American, for spying on critics of Egypt’s president in the United States. According to the US Department of Justice, Girgis was indicted by a Manhattan...

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WORLD REPORT 2022 – Egypt, Events of 2021

Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Human Rights Watch Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2022/country-chapters/egypt In 2021, authorities escalated the use of the abusive Emergency State Security Courts to prosecute peaceful activists and critics who joined thousands of dissidents already in Egypt’s congested prisons. Courts issued death sentences in mass trials, adding to the...

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What’s Behind the Partnership between Russia and Egypt?

Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Dimitar Bechev Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/whats-behind-the-partnership-between-russia-and-egypt/ On December 9, 2021, Russia and Egypt launched a joint naval exercise in the Gulf of Alexandria. The Russian navy deployed the frigate Admiral Grigorovich, a mainstay of its Mediterranean Squadron, part of the...

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Egypt’s growing regional energy role

Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Mirette F. Mabrouk Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/blog/monday-briefing-flurry-diplomatic-exchanges-eve-gcc-summit#mabrouk Egypt has long stated its goal of becoming a regional energy hub and it is ramping up its efforts to achieve that aim. Read more at original link

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Sudan Coup: The Regional Interference behind a Faltering Transition

Source: Arab Center Washington DC Author(s): Khalil Al-Anani Original Link: https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/sudan-coup-the-regional-interference-behind-a-faltering-transition/ On October 25, 2021, Sudan’s General Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan staged a coup, declared a state of emergency, dissolved the power-sharing Sovereign Council, sacked the civilian government, and temporarily detained Prime...

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Operation Sirli and systematic killing of Egyptian civilians

Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Hassan Saab Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/operation-sirli-and-systematic-killing-of-egyptian-civilians/ Documented reports recently revealed by “Disclose”, a well-known French investigative website, have raised an uproar in both France and Egypt, concerning secret security and intelligence cooperation between the two countries that...

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Agreements and Tensions in US-Egyptian Relations

Source: Arab Center Washington DC Author(s): Sahar Khamis Original Link: https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/agreements-and-tensions-in-us-egyptian-relations/ The US-Egypt strategic dialogue was held in Washington, DC in early November between Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his American counterpart, Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Initially launched under President Bill...

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France’s complicity of war crimes in Egypt – “Silence is no longer an option”

Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Albane de Rochebrune Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/frances-complicity-of-war-crimes-in-egypt-silence-is-no-longer-an-option/ Disclose, a French investigative journalism NGO, has uncovered crucial evidence exposing how France has fully collaborated with Sisi’s regime in terms of military and political support to the point of active...

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