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The Role of Egypt′s Armed Forces: A Military Empire

2020 Amr Hamzawy Democracy and Politics Egypt Italian Institute for International Political Studies Military Affairs Nathan J. Brown Paper

September 24, 2020 14:50 pm

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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Nathan Brown and Amr Hamzawy Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/role-egypts-armed-forces-military-empire-27403 Since 2011, the Egyptian armed forces have played an unusual political role, at the center of Egyptian governance on a very wide range of matters. The set of crises imposed by the COVID-19...

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Political Islam and Secular Forces: The Struggle for Survival in Egypt

2020 Democracy and Politics Egypt Islamic Movements and Institutions Italian Institute for International Political Studies Michael Wahid Hanna Paper

September 24, 2020 14:47 pm

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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Michael Wahid Hanna Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/political-islam-and-secular-forces-struggle-survival-egypt-27506 In the aftermath of Egypt’s July 2013 coup that ousted the Muslim Brotherhood President, Mohamed Morsi, and set the stage for the country’s current military-led political order...

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Shifting Priorities: The Evolution of Egypt’s Foreign Policy

2020 Democracy and Politics Egypt Foreign Relations Giuseppe Dentice Italian Institute for International Political Studies Paper

September 24, 2020 13:50 pm

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Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Giuseppe Dentice Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/shifting-priorities-evolution-egypts-foreign-policy-27409 Analysing the evolving trajectories in contemporary Egyptian foreign policy is not simple for several reasons related to its history, the cultural importance in the Arab and Muslim world...

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Targeting the last line of defense: Egypt’s attacks against lawyers

2020 Democracy and Politics Egypt Judicial Affairs Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

September 23, 2020 15:12 pm

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Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): TIMEP Original Link: https://timep.org/reports-briefings/special-reports/targeting-the-last-line-of-defense-egypts-attacks-against-lawyers/ In Targeting the last line of defense: Egypt’s attacks against lawyers, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) call on the...

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Sisi’s War on the Poor

2020 Carnegie Civil Society Culture, Education and Development Democracy and Politics Economy Egypt Human Rights Maged Mandour Paper

September 23, 2020 15:03 pm

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Source: Carnegie Author(s): Maged Mandour Original Link: https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/82772 The Egyptian government’s fiscal and economic policies are accelerating the transfer of wealth from lower and middle classes to itself and business elites, with likely devastating consequences. Read more at original link

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How Egyptian Security Services Managed Corona Crisis

2020 Ahmed Mawlana Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Health Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

September 23, 2020 14:05 pm

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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Ahmed Mawlana Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/how-egyptian-security-services-managed-corona-crisis/ With the outbreak of COVID-19 in Egypt, the military and security services have increasingly become involved in confronting the coronavirus at the expense of other government bodies, including the implementation and monitoring of the...

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Are Recent Demolitions Part of the Plan to Dismantle and Sell Cairo?

2020 Amer Abdel Moneim Culture, Education and Development Democracy and Politics Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Human Rights Paper

September 21, 2020 15:09 pm

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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Amer Abdel Moneim Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/are-recent-demolitions-part-of-the-plan-to-dismantle-and-sell-cairo/ The heart of Egyptian capital Cairo is currently subjected to systematic theft, where international organizations and foreign circles are involved, in complicity with personalities and centers of influence within the...

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Egypt-Iraq-Jordan Alliance Tries to Change Middle East Dynamics

2020 Arab Center Washington DC Curtis R. Ryan Democracy and Politics Egypt Foreign Relations Paper

September 16, 2020 14:04 pm

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Source: Arab Center Washington DC Author(s): Curtis R. Ryan Original Link: On August 25, 2020, the leaders of Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan met in Amman for the third in a succession of meetings marking ever-closer relations between the three Arab states. Earlier meetings had taken place in March 2019 in Cairo and in September 2019 in New York City, on the

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Post-COVID-19: How to Reform Egypt Health System?

2020 Amgad Hamdi Democracy and Politics Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Health Paper

September 15, 2020 13:48 pm

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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Amgad Hamdi Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/post-covid-19-how-to-reform-egypt-health-system/ The World Health Organization (WHO) states that the health system consists of all the organizations, institutions, resources and people whose primary purpose is to promote, restore and/or maintain health; and that such system needs staff, funds...

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Demise of El-Erian & Systematic Killing of Political Detainees

2020 Asmaa Shukr Democracy and Politics Egypt Egyptian Institute For Studies Human Rights Islamic Movements and Institutions Paper

September 11, 2020 14:39 pm

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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Asmaa Shokr Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/demise-of-el-erian-systematic-killing-of-political-detainees/ After the death of Dr. Essam El-Erian, a prominent Muslim Brotherhood leader, in Egypt’s notorious high-security Aqrab (Scorpion) Prison on 13 August 2020, social networking sites flared up with posts of mourning and praying for the...

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POMED’S Amy Hawthorne Testifies on Egypt before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs

2020 Amy Hawthorne Democracy and Politics Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Human Rights Paper Pomed

September 10, 2020 14:35 pm

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Source: Project on Middle East Democracy Author(s): Amy Hawthorne Original Link: https://pomed.org/pomeds-amy-hawthorne-testifies-on-egypt-before-the-house-committee-on-foreign-affairs/ On September 9, POMED’s Deputy Director for Research Amy Hawthorne testified in Congress before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs’s Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa...

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Religious Institutions under the Pressure of COVID-19: Traditional Policies and Delayed Crisis Management

2020 Culture, Education and Development Democracy and Politics Egypt Health Ishak Ibrahim Islamic Movements and Institutions Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

September 10, 2020 14:24 pm

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Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Ishak Ibrahim Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/religious-institutions-under-the-pressure-of-covid-19-traditional-policies-and-delayed-crisis-management/ The coronavirus pandemic has imposed exceptional circumstances and tough challenges on Egyptian religious institutions, which have been tested when it comes to...

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