How Huawei’s Localization in North Africa Delivered Mixed Returns

Source: Carnegie Author(s): Tin Hinane El Kadi Original Link: https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/04/14/how-huawei-s-localization-in-north-africa-delivered-mixed-returns-pub-86889 Algeria and Egypt pressed China’s telecom national champion Huawei for more value-added manufacturing and technology transfers. The company responded, but it ultimately improved its brand image without engaging in...

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Egypt, Israel, and Hamas: Opportunities for Progress in Gaza

Source: The Washington Institute Author(s): Ramy Aziz Original Link: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/egypt-israel-and-hamas-opportunities-progress-gaza Cairo is signaling more initiative than ever on rebuilding Gaza, curbing Hamas, and openly engaging Israel, but longer-term progress will require greater international donor resources and U.S. diplomatic support. Read more...

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet: What the IMF Can Do About Egypt’s Military Companies

Source: Carnegie Author(s): Yezid Sayigh Original Link: https://carnegie-mec.org/2022/04/07/throwing-down-gauntlet-what-imf-can-do-about-egypt-s-military-companies-pub-86821 IMF proposals and Egyptian government initiatives offer an opportunity to bring the country’s powerful military-owned companies under consolidated ownership and regulatory frameworks, mitigating their adverse impacts...

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Egyptian-Iraqi relations during the reign of Sisi

Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Hassan Saab Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egyptian-iraqi-relations-during-the-reign-of-sisi/ The regime of Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been keen to boost the country’s relations with Iraq, amid the latter’s confrontation with ISIS and other militant groups that spread in Iraq in the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003...

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Russia’s War on Ukraine: Egypt’s Limited Room for Maneuver

Source: Arab Center Washington DC Author(s): Khalil Al-Anani Original Link: https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/russias-war-on-ukraine-egypts-limited-room-for-maneuver/ The Russian war on Ukraine will have significant impacts on countries in the Middle East, ranging from strategic realignments to energy security and food supplies. For Egypt, the war is expected to have a major impact on its...

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Cyber Violence and Women in Egypt

Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Habiba Abdelaal Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/cyber-violence-and-women-in-egypt/ While increasing access to the internet aims to pave the way for a more equitable and inclusive world, the weaponization of the internet and other technologies against women has grown commonplace. The internet and social media...

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Turkey and Egypt: The Challenges of Normalisation

Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies Author(s): Meliha Benli Altunışık Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/turkey-and-egypt-challenges-normalisation-34277 Turkey has launched a normalisation initiative with several countries with which it has had problematic relations for the last decade. Egypt has been one of them. The relations between the two...

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The Russia-Ukraine war might finally bring about a rise in Egypt’s bread prices

Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Khaled Dawoud Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/publications/russia-ukraine-war-might-finally-bring-about-rise-egypts-bread-prices At a small mosque in Cairo’s middle-class neighborhood of Agouza, the traditional Friday prayer sermon was not about how Muslims should behave, or proper religious practices. Instead, it was about bread, known in the local...

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Q&A with Lobna Darwish: Women in Egypt

Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/qa-with-lobna-darwish-women-in-egypt/ As the world marks International Women’s Day, TIMEP speaks to women advocates across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region on the ways in which they are challenging the roots of gender...

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Egypt: What has Gov. done to face the phenomenon of suicide?

Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Sherif Hilali Original Link: https://en.eipss-eg.org/egypt-what-has-gov-done-to-face-the-phenomenon-of-suicide/ In many cases, the government’s organs deny the gravity of the phenomenon of suicide, and accuse opposition parties of exaggeration in their talk about it, to deliberately embarrass the community – a logic that seems blind to the...

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A Homeland Lives Within Us, But We Cannot Live in It: Egyptian Organizing and Activism from Exile

Source: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Author(s): Mohamed Mandour Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/analysis/a-homeland-lives-within-us-but-we-cannot-live-in-it-egyptian-organizing-and-activism-from-exile/ Last June marked the first anniversary of the death of queer activist Sarah Hegazi, in exile in Canada. The days following her death witnessed vigils in cities across...

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