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Does Qatar’s Return to the Arab World Run through Egypt?

2021Democracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsOfir WinterPaperThe Institute For National Security StudiesYoel Guzansky
June 30, 2021 13:38 pm
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Source: The Institute for National Security Studies Author(s): Yoel Guzansky and Ofir Winter Original Link: https://www.inss.org.il/publication/egypt-qatar/ Recent months have witnessed changes in inter-Arab dynamics in general, and in relations between Qatar and Egypt in particular, which have been tense and even hostile in recent years. Warming relations between Doha and the Arab Quartet...

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Shift in Middle East Interactions: the case of Egypt and Qatar

2021Baraah Al-HamdoCulture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesForeign RelationsPaper
June 30, 2021 13:37 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Baraah Al-Hamdo Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/shift-in-middle-east-interactions-the-case-of-egypt-and-qatar/ With the US President Joe Biden’s access to the White House in January 2021, some Arab countries made numerous decisions that brought about changes in their foreign policy orientations, and partly broke  the political stalemate...

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Egypt’s Nile strategy

2021Culture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsMiddle East InstituteMohammed SolimanPaper
June 28, 2021 13:29 pm
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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Mohammed Soliman Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/publications/egypts-nile-strategy Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan are caught in a dangerous deadlock over the Nile River and despite what the international community seems to think, the risk of military confrontation among the three nations is not at all far-fetched. Addis Ababa began the second phase of...

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Egypt and Sudan look to the UN in the long-running GERD dispute

2021Democracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsMiddle East InstituteMirette F. Mabrouk Mirette F. Mabrouk Paper
June 28, 2021 13:27 pm
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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Mirette F. Mabrouk Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/blog/monday-briefing-us-airstrikes-iraqi-militias-and-risk-escalatory-spiral#mabrouk With the second unilateral filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) underway, on June 25, Egypt’s minister of foreign affairs, Sameh Shoukry, announced that the country had sent a letter to the U.N...

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Egypt media between ‘soft power’ and ‘political engineering’ (2)

2021Democracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesMediaPaperWessam Fauad
June 24, 2021 14:05 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Wessam Fauad Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-media-between-soft-power-and-political-engineering-2/ In Part I of this article, the author addressed three consecutive scenes that have highlighted the crisis of the Egyptian media, and may have summarized not only the features of the crisis, but also the struggle between conflicting...

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Doubts Surround Egypt’s Draft National Human Rights Strategy

2021Arab Center Washington DCCharles DunneDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsHuman RightsPaper
June 24, 2021 13:38 pm
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Source: Arab Center Washington DC Author(s): Charles W. Dunne Original Link: http://arabcenterdc.org/policy_analyses/doubts-surround-egypts-draft-national-human-rights-strategy/ Long hounded by international criticism of its deteriorating human rights record, the government of Egypt is preparing to respond by launching a new national human rights strategy. The strategy appears to be aimed not...

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How Sisi Beat Biden’s Human Rights Policy

2021Council On Foreign RelationsDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsHuman RightsPaperSteven A. Cook
June 23, 2021 13:56 pm
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Source: Steven A. Cook Author(s): Council on Foreign Relations Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/article/how-sisi-beat-bidens-human-rights-policy Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has had a few good months. The Turkish government has been bending over backward to improve bilateral ties that have been badly strained since Egypt’s July 2013 coup. Egypt’s diplomats have been involved in...

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Egypt ramps up Libya diplomacy

2021Democracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsMiddle East InstituteMirette F. Mabrouk Mirette F. Mabrouk Paper
June 21, 2021 13:52 pm
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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Mirette F. Mabrouk Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/blog/monday-briefing-no-surprises-irans-election-what-comes-next#mabrouk While Egypt has been shifting into overdrive with its shuttle diplomacy with Nile Basin countries, it has been just as active in its immediate neighborhood. Read more at original link

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Expert Q&A – Beyond Rhetoric: How Should the Biden Administration Support Human Rights and Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa?

2021Amy HawthorneDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsHanan AbdulhadiHuman RightsMohamed LotfyPaperPomed
June 17, 2021 14:08 pm
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Source: Project on Middle East Democracy Author(s): Hanan Abdulhadi, Amy Hawthorne and Mohamed Lotfy Original Link: https://pomed.org/expert-qa-beyond-rhetoric-how-should-the-biden-administration-support-human-rights-and-democracy-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/#egypt Improving Egypt’s human rights record is a steep climb. The security apparatus has effectively nationalized the public...

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NDP to NFP: Rebranding or Restructuring Parliamentary Life in Egypt?

2021Democracy and PoliticsEgyptPaperThe Tahrir Institute For Middle East PolicyTimothy E. Kaldas
June 17, 2021 13:29 pm
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Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Timothy E. Kaldas Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/ndp-to-nfp-rebranding-or-restructuring-parliamentary-life-in-egypt/ Egypt is in the process of building the largest parliamentary building in the Middle East in its New Administrative Capital. Last year elections were held for a new upper chamber of...

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Egypt media between ‘soft power’ and ‘political engineering’ (1)

2021Democracy and PoliticsEgyptEgyptian Institute For StudiesMediaPaperWessam Fauad
June 15, 2021 13:34 pm
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Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Wessam Fauad Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-media-between-soft-power-and-political-engineering-1/ In handling the recent crises of the Egyptian media, the author finds it difficult to choose between adopting the ‘soft power’ approach as an entry to addressing the topic, or the ‘political engineering’ approach, based on the...

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Islamic Institutions in Arab States: Mapping the Dynamics of Control, Co-option, and Contention

2021CarnegieDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsFrederic WehreyIslamic Movements and InstitutionsMichele DunneNathan J. BrownPaper
June 07, 2021 13:55 pm
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Source: Carnegie Author(s): Frederic Wehrey ; Nathan J. Brown ; Michele Dunne Original Link: https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/06/07/islamic-institutions-in-arab-states-mapping-dynamics-of-control-co-option-and-contention-pub-84647 The complex relations between the state and Islamic institutions in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco shed light on evolving...

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