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Egypt: COVID-19 infections among the military amid lack of transparency

2020Culture, Education and DevelopmentEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesHealthMahmoud GamalMilitary AffairsPaper
April 14, 2020 15:35 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Mahmoud Gamal Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-covid-19-infections-among-the-military-amid-lack-of-transparency/ Major General Shafei Abdel Halim Dawood, director of the Major Projects Department, affiliated to the Engineering Authority of the Armed Forces, has recently died after contracting the coronavirus, known as COVID-19. It...

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Will Egypt’s Military Companies Float?

2020CarnegieCulture, Education and DevelopmentEconomyEgyptMilitary AffairsPaperYezid Sayigh
April 07, 2020 16:56 pm
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Source: Carnegie Author(s): Yezid Sayigh Original Link: https://carnegie-mec.org/2020/04/07/will-egypt-s-military-companies-float-pub-81487 The proposal to list military businesses on the Egyptian Stock Exchange may founder due to issues of transparency, profitability, unfair competition, and legal ambiguity. Read more at original link

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Egypt’s Military and Jan. Revolution – Policies and Transformations

2020Culture, Education and DevelopmentEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesMahmoud GamalMilitary AffairsPaper
April 03, 2020 20:10 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Mahmoud Gamal Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypts-military-and-jan-revolution-policies-and-transformations/ The Egyptian military has dealt with the January 25 revolution 2011 from the early moments of its outbreak, according to a well-thought-out plan in order to achieve repositioning and ultimately re-establish its control over...

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Whither the MFO? The US presence in Sinai has seen its best days

2020EgyptForeign RelationsGeoffrey AronsonIslamic Movements and InstitutionsMiddle East InstituteMilitary AffairsPaperSecurity and Counter-TerrorismSinai
April 01, 2020 20:01 pm
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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Geoffrey Aronson Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/publications/whither-mfo-us-presence-sinai-has-seen-its-best-days The Sinai-based Multinational Force & Observers (MFO) will soon celebrate its 41st anniversary. Like most of what the MFO does, recognition will be low key and understated. The MFO has always operated under the radar, but this may...

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Egypt’s Expanding Military Economy

2020CarnegieEconomyEgyptMahmoud KhalidMilitary AffairsPaper
March 26, 2020 18:40 pm
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Source: Carnegie Author(s): Mahmoud Khalid Original Link: https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/81376 Egypt’s Sovereign Wealth Fund signed a cooperative agreement on February 3 with the National Service Projects Organization (NSPO). The NSPO is an apparatus affiliated with the armed forces that was established during the late President Anwar Sadat’s leadership to ensure...

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“No One Cared He Was A Child”

2020EgyptHuman Rights WatchMilitary AffairsPaperSecurity and Counter-TerrorismYouth
March 23, 2020 18:09 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s):  Human Rights Watch & Belady: An Island for Humanity  Original Link:  https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/03/23/no-one-cared-he-was-child/egyptian-security-forces-abuse-children-detention Since the Egyptian army forcibly removed Egypt’s first elected president, Mohamed Morsy, in 2013, the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has greenlighted a...

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Egypt’s Support of Khalifa Haftar: Forms and Motives

2020Democracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesForeign RelationsMahmoud GamalMilitary AffairsPaper
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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Development of the military situation in Sinai – Dec.

2020EgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesHaitham GhoniemMilitary AffairsPaperSinai
January 23, 2020 20:54 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Haitham Ghoniem Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/development-of-the-military-situation-in-sinai-dec/ In December 2019, there was a varied activity by the Islamic State’s local organization, known as Sinai Province, in the evicted areas of Rafah, where the militant organization managed to diversify its attacks during December while...

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World Report 2020 | Events of 2019

2020Civil SocietyDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptHuman RightsHuman Rights WatchMilitary AffairsMinoritiesPaperSecurity and Counter-TerrorismSinaiWomen AffairsYouth
January 21, 2020 19:09 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Human Rights Watch Original Link:  https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/egypt The Egyptian government in 2019 passed constitutional amendments that were approved in an unfair referendum in April. The amendments consolidate authoritarian rule, undermine the judiciary’s dwindling independence, and expand the military’s power to intervene...

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Egypt: Army Economic Institutions and Road to Full Domination

2019EconomyEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesMahmoud GamalMilitary AffairsPaper
December 03, 2019 15:18 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Mahmoud Gamal Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-army-economic-institutions-and-road-to-full-domination/ After Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s military coup on July 3, 2013, the leaders of the ruling military institution adopted a new approach to management of the economic file within the Egyptian State, whereby the army has turned from being...

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Closer Egyptian-Russian Relations Causing a Headache in Washington

2019Arab Center Washington DCDemocracy and PoliticsEconomyEgyptForeign RelationsGregory AftandilianMilitary AffairsPaper
November 26, 2019 18:40 pm
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Source: Arab Center Washington DC Author(s): Gregory Aftandilian Original Link:  http://arabcenterdc.org/policy_analyses/closer-egyptian-russian-relations-causing-a-headache-in-washington/ Egypt’s intended purchase of advanced Russian fighter jets is raising alarm bells in Washington and has prompted US officials to threaten Cairo with sanctions under legislation passed in 2017. Despite...

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Egypt: Dimensions of Privatization of Army Ventures

2019Ahmed ZikrallahEconomyEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesMilitary AffairsPaper
November 25, 2019 19:28 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Ahmed Zikrallah Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-dimensions-of-privatization-of-army-ventures/ Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s call for listing companies affiliated with Egypt’s armed forces on the stock exchange along with other state-run firms and assets in the coming period was not surprising to me. On Thursday, October 31, 2019 during...

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