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Repressing Egypt’s Civil Society: State Violence, Restriction of the Public Sphere, and Extrajudicial Persecution

2015 Civil Society German Institute For Security And International Affairs Human Rights Jannis Grimm Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

August 30, 2015 05:52 am

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Source: German Institute For Security and Counter-Terrorism And International Affairs Author(s): Jannis Grimm Original Link: https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/repressing-egypts-civil-society/ Summary: Since the military coup of July 2013, one of the characteristics of the Egyptian regime has been the lack of clarity on the boundaries of political activism and on what activities it...

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Egypt: The New Founders

2015 Democracy and Politics Egypt Garrett Nada Islamic Movements and Institutions Khalil Al Anani Paper Wilson Centre

August 27, 2015 03:35 am

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Source: Wilson Centre Author(s): Khalil al Anani, Garrett Nada Original Link: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/egypt-the-new-founders Snapshot: The single most powerful and prolific Islamist movement was born in Egypt, the intellectual center of the Arab world. Formed in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood was started as a social and religious club by a twenty-two-year-old schoolteacher, who...

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SUEZ CANAL EXPANSION: WHAT’S IN IT FOR EGYPT?

2015 Democracy and Politics Economy Foreign Relations German Development Institute Markus Loewe Paper

August 24, 2015 05:54 am

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Source: German Development Institute Author(s): Markus Loewe Original Link: https://www.die-gdi.de/en/the-current-column/article/suez-canal-expansion-whats-in-it-for-egypt-1/ Bonn, 24 August 2015. The inauguration ceremony for the 35 kilometre long second artery of the Suez Canal between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean was held in early August 2015, officiated by Egypt’s President...

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Al-Sisi’s Egypt: The Military Moves on the Economy

2015 Economy Marina Ottaway Military Affairs Paper Wilson Centre

August 20, 2015 05:53 am

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Source: Wilson Centre Author(s): Marina Ottaway Original Link: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/al-sisis-egypt-the-military-moves-the-economy The al-Sisi regime has chosen a model of development based on the implementation of large, ambitious projects under military supervision. The projects, such as the broadening of the Suez Canal and the building of a new capital city, may fail...

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Is President Sisi a Bulwark Against Terrorism?

2015 Council On Foreign Relations Egypt Elliot Abrams Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

August 19, 2015 03:40 am

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Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Elliot Abrams Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/president-sisi-bulwark-against-terrorism There are very few people nowadays ignoring the growing repression in Egypt. Most recently, a new “counter-terrorism” law was imposed this week–but it snuffs out free speech more than terror. Even the State Department denounced the...

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Egypt’s Botched Revolution: Absolutism and the Infelicitous Role of External Actors

2015 Democracy and Politics Finnish Institute Of International Affairs Foreign Relations Paper Wolfgang Mühlberger

August 17, 2015 05:54 am

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Source: Finnish Institute Of International Affairs (Fiia) Author(s): Wolfgang Mühlberger Original Link: https://www.fiia.fi/en/publication/egypts-botched-revolution SUMMARY Egypt’s political transition entered a new phase with the military coup in mid-2013: pluralistic tendencies have been systematically uprooted and the Egyptian armed forces have positioned themselves as a determining...

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Enduring Repression and Insurgency in Egypt’s Sinai

2015 Chatham House Egypt Omar Ashour Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

August 14, 2015 03:40 am

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Source: Chatham House Author(s): Dr Omar Ashour Original Link: https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/enduring-repression-and-insurgency-egypts-sinai ‘They want to substitute me for the Muslim womans [sic] arrested in Egyptian prisons. These matters have to be achieved before 48 hours from now; if not, the soldiers of Sinai Province will kill me,’ said a man identifying...

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Tracking Egypt’s Extraparliamentary Laws

2015 Democracy and Politics Judicial Affairs May El-Sadany Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

August 12, 2015 05:54 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): May El-Sadany Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/tracking-egypts-extraparliamentary-laws/ In the absence of a parliamentary body, Egypt’s constitution grants the president temporary legislative authority alongside his existing executive powers. President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi continues to regularly exercise this authority...

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Repression in Egypt from Mubarak to Sisi

2015 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Egypt Human Rights Maged Mandour Paper

August 11, 2015 03:40 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Maged Mandour Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/60985 Since July 2013, Egyptian authorities have undertaken a campaign of repression against dissidents. Over the past two years, the scope and severity of this campaign has surpassed any that Egypt saw under Hosni Mubarak. Most notably, security forces attacked mostly peaceful Muslim...

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Whatever is the Matter With Egypt? Nothing All That New

2015 Council On Foreign Relations Democracy and Politics Egypt Paper Steven A. Cook

August 10, 2015 03:46 am

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Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Steven A. Cook Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/whatever-matter-egypt-nothing-all-new My friend Hisham Melham, Al Arabiya’s Washington bureau chief, dean of the Beltway-based Arab press corps, farmer, and intellectual with few peers, wrote a piece that appeared over the weekend called “Whatever is the matter with Egypt?” It is a terrific...

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Sisi’s regime is a gift to the Islamic State

2015 Democracy and Politics Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Shadi Hamid The Brookings Institution

August 07, 2015 05:54 am

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Source: Brookings Institute Author(s): Shadi Hamid Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2015/08/07/sisis-regime-is-a-gift-to-the-islamic-state/ Editor’s note: By any measurable standard, Egypt is more vulnerable to violence and insurgency today than it had been before the Arab Spring. Since the overthrow of former President Mohammed Morsi in 2013, Egypt has seen shocking levels...

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Working Paper- Modelling the Density of Egyptian Quarterly CPI Inflation

2015 Doaa Akl Ahmed Economic Research Forum Economy Egypt Mamdouh M. Abdelsalam Paper

August 01, 2015 03:44 am

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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Doaa Akl Ahmed, Mamdouh M. Abdelsalam Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/modelling-the-density-of-egyptian-quarterly-cpi-inflation/ Abstract: This paper aims at modelling the density of quarterly inflation based on time-varying conditional variance, skewness and kurtosis model developed by Leon, Rubio, and Serna (2005). They model...

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