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1 (1)

• 1095 Days of al-Sisi’s Presidency: The Upcoming Egyptian Presidential Elections on SNS

2 (2)

• 2011 Revolution in Egypt: Five Years Later
• 2018 Elections: Continuing Violations and Phony Results

A (14)

• A Delayed Transition: Egypt’s Suspended Elections
• A Dispensable Dictator?
• A Fragile Egypt in a Changing World: Six Years After the Revolution
• A New Hope for NGO’s in Egypt
• A Return to the Mubarak System
• Alone at the Top in Egypt
• Anatomy of an Election
• Anti-Corruption Protests Roiling Egypt Add to Regional Insecurity
• Arresting Hope in Egypt
• Arrests target political figures involved in new coalition to run in 2020 parliamentary elections
• Assessment of Egypt’s New Education Reform System
• At the terminal: Stories from the Rafah Border Crossing
• Authoritarian Math
• ‘A minister without a ministry’ — confusion over role of newly appointed information minister

B (6)

• Back to Cairo after 6 years
• Ballot-box politics: What has pushed Egypt’s opposition to vote ‘no’?
• Beehive: A Crisis of Trust between Young Egyptians and the al-Sisi Regime
• Behind Egypt’s New Wave of Arrests
• Biggest wave of arrests since Sisi took office: 1909 people detained
• Built on Sand: Egypt’s Questionable Strategy for Growth and Development

C (14)

• Caught in a Debtor’s Prison
• Challenges for Egypt’s Fragile Stability
• Challenges to Stability in Egypt
• Changing Cairo’s Spaces from the Bottom Up
• Christians and Other Religious Minorities in the Middle East
• Civil Service Reform in Egypt: Between Efficiency and Social Peace
• Closer Egyptian-Russian Relations Causing a Headache in Washington
• Constitutional amendments submitted to Parliament could allow Sisi to stay in power until 2034
• Coronavirus and Prospects for Instability in Egypt
• Could the latest blunder by Egypt’s Sissi be the nail in his coffin?
• Countermeasures for the COVID-19 Outbreak in Egypt: This Time is Really Different
• Covid-19 in Egypt: Global Pandemics in Times of Authoritarianism
• Creating a Constituency for Secularism: Questions for Lama Abu-Odeh
• Crushing Humanity: The Abuse of Solitary Confinement in Egypt’s Prison

D (10)

• Dateline Egypt: Roadmaps, Refinancing, and Regional Roles
• De-escalating the GERD dispute between Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan
• Decision Making in Egypt: What Has Changed Since Mubarak?
• Deconstructing Egypt’s Protests
• Demarcation of Maritime Borders and Egyptian Strategic Interests
• Democracy Is Not the Cure for Terrorism
• Did Egypt’s Parliamentary Election just trump citizens’ rights?
• Did Sisi Save Egypt?
• Diplomatic source: ‘Prompt’ pardons for 32 Ethiopian nationals sign of ‘growing strategic relationship’ with Egypt
• Dividing the Nile

E (105)

• Egypt – Freedom In The World 2020
• Egypt Adrift Five Years After the Uprising
• Egypt After the 2011 Revolution: Divisions in Postprotest Pathways
• Egypt and the falling standards of accountability
• Egypt as an Authoritarian Vanguard
• Egypt Back Under Emergency Law
• Egypt Behind Bars
• Egypt between 2 Boxes: Elections and ammunition
• Egypt between the Libyan crisis and the Middle East question
• Egypt Charts Its Own Course, Regardless of Patronage
• Egypt Election: A Reading in Likely Participation
• Egypt is Trump country
• Egypt Media in International Indices and Reports (2020)
• Egypt Now Looks a Lot Like It Did in 2010, Just Before 2011 Unrest
• Egypt of al-Sisi: Militarization and Repression
• Egypt Parliament Watch Session IV Report: October 2018 – July 2019
• Egypt passes wide-ranging constitutional amendments
• Egypt political settlement bet. regime’s fears and opponents’ duties
• Egypt | Detention of Amal Fathy is state retribution for exercising the right to free speech
• Egypt | Does Egypt’s President Really Want to Fight Terrorism?
• Egypt | Freedom in the World 2018
• Egypt | With the blatant rigging of the upcoming 2018 presidential elections underway, Rights groups propose ten guarantees for free and fair elections
• Egypt’s Putinesque Election
• Egypt’s Short and Long-Term Challenges
• Egypt: A Country Awaits a Revolution
• Egypt: a repression made in France
• Egypt: Activists Arrested in Dawn Raids Release Everyone Unfairly Detained
• Egypt: Al-Sisi Should End Rights Abuses
• Egypt: Between Chaos, Authoritarianism, and Democracy
• EGYPT: DRAFT NEW NGO LAW RETAINS REPRESSIVE ESSENCE OF OLD ONE
• EGYPT: GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS UNDER PRESIDENT AL-SISI -AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SUBMISSION FOR THE UN UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW, 34TH SESSION OF THE UPR WORKING GROUP, NOVEMBER 2019
• Egypt: Integration into Military Colleges & Change Requirements
• Egypt: Intensifying Crackdown Under Counterterrorism Guise
• Egypt: Largest wave of mass arrests since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power
• Egypt: Mass Arrests of Lawyers, Activists
• Egypt: New NGO Law Renews Draconian Restrictions
• Egypt: No Justice For Rab’a Victims 5 Years On
• Egypt: Pharaonic Politics Redux?
• Egypt: Planned Presidential Vote Neither Free Nor Fair
• Egypt: Politics intrudes on daily life in an unexpected way
• Egypt: President Sisi in a Crusader Fight with a Generation
• EGYPT: PRISONS ARE NOW JOURNALISTS’ NEWROOMS
• Egypt: rights and security, another crackdown
• Egypt: Series of draconian laws ‘legalizes’ unprecedented repression six years since fall of Morsi
• Egypt: Struct. Imbalance in EFA Mechanisms
• Egypt: The New Founders
• Egypt: The New Puritans
• Egypt: the pandemic undermines internal stability and regional ambitions
• Egypt: The Struggles of the Sisi Regime
• Egypt: why protests against al-Sisi
• Egypt: World leaders must act to stop President al-Sisi’s repressive crackdown
• Egyptian Debt: the Road to the Abyss
• Egyptian Doctors in the State’s Eyes: Rhetoric Versus Reality
• Egyptian Election Numbers Show Regime Supporters Are Becoming More Passive
• Egyptian Instability Looms as Morsi’s Fate Hangs in Balance
• Egyptian Political Parties and the Civil Society Crisis
• Egyptian Role in Libya: Determinants and Tracks
• Egyptian Situation after 9th Anniversary of Jan. Revolution
• Egypts Position on Human Rights Conventions
• Egypt’s Advance toward a New Social Contract
• Egypt’s Anti Protest Law: Legalising Authoritarianism
• Egypt’s Attack on Civil Society
• Egypt’s Botched Revolution: Absolutism and the Infelicitous Role of External Actors
• Egypt’s Challenge of Stateness After the Arab Spring
• Egypt’s Constitutional Amendments: A Nail in the Coffin of Political Pluralism
• Egypt’s Copts and Politics: Determinants and Developments
• Egypt’s democratic window-dressing: Procedural elections and paltry voter participation indicate a non-pluralistic transformation
• Egypt’s Elections Give Sisi Chance to Tighten Grip
• Egypt’s Elections on Pause
• Egypt’s Emboldened Military Courts
• Egypt’s Empowered Prosecution and Threats to Fair Trial Guarantees
• Egypt’s Former President Hosni Mubarak Has Been Buried
• Egypt’s Fragile Pandemic Measures
• Egypt’s Human Rights Movement Repression, Resistance, and Co-optation
• Egypt’s Islamists: Weak Presence in Elections
• Egypt’s Long Walk to Despotism
• Egypt’s Loyal Opposition
• Egypt’s Nationalists Dominate in a Politics-Free Zone
• Egypt’s New Constitutional Amendments: Moving Toward Totalitarianism
• Egypt’s New Parliament—Posturing Without Politics
• Egypt’s Next Phase: Sustainable Instability
• Egypt’s Oil Dependency and Political Discontent
• Egypt’s Online Repression Thwarts Both Growth and Democracy
• Egypt’s Orwellian Populisms
• Egypt’s Parties Face Marginalization Once Again
• Egypt’s Party Consolidation and the Stifling of Pluralism
• Egypt’s Presidential Elections and the Challenges Ahead
• Egypt’s Prisons: History of Negotiations for Freedom
• Egypt’s Progress Towards Gender Parity
• Egypt’s Protests by the Numbers
• Egypt’s Protests: A Sign the Arab Spring Is Alive
• Egypt’s Puzzling Dilemma: Escalating Challenges and Obstructed Mobilization
• Egypt’s Regime Faces an Authoritarian Catch-22
• Egypt’s Resilient and Evolving Social Activism
• Egypt’s Secular Political Parties: A Struggle for Identity and Independence
• Egypt’s sizeable informal economy complicates its pandemic response
• Egypt’s Support of Khalifa Haftar: Forms and Motives
• Egypt’s Upcoming Parliamentary Elections: Weakened Parliament, Weakened Parties
• Elections in Egypt: Another setback for democracy
• Elections in Egypt: What Purpose Do They Serve?
• Elisa Epstein
• Europe and the Egyptian election: Do not congratulate
• Europe’s Deep Reservoir of Goodwill in the Middle East: Lessons for Public Diplomacy
• Excluded and Unequal
• Explaining Absence: The Failure of Egypt’s Liberals

F (9)

• Fact Sheet – Egypt’s Antidemocratic Parliament
• Fact Sheet – Egypt’s Campaign against Civil Society
• Fact Sheet – Egypt’s Totalitarian Turn: Al-Sisi’s Crackdown Deepens
• Factbox: Egypt and North Korea
• Five Years after Tahrir Square
• Five Years after the Revolution, this is Egypt’s Worst Dictatorship
• For the Egyptian government, it’s time to deliver
• From Great Expectations to Bitter Disappointment: Egypt’s Youth, After Three Years of al-Sisi’s Presidency
• From Restriction to closure of public space in Egypt Egyptian Government Clamps Down on Rights Groups, Seeking their Eradication

G (2)

• Germany Welcomes Egypt’s Sisi
• Global tech and domestic tactics: Egypt’s multifaceted regime of information controls

H (15)

• Half-baked, the Other Side of Egypt’s Baladi Bread Subsidy
• Hardened and Brittle: Egypt’s Authoritarian Fragility
• Has the government finally found a mechanism to seize Brotherhood assets?
• Hosni Mubarak (1928–2020): The rise and fall of Egypt’s longest-ruling president
• Hosni Mubarak Was Overthrown Eight Years Ago. Should Egypt Miss Him?
• Hosni Mubarak’s Dramatic Rise and Fall from Power
• Hosni Mubarak’s risk-averse reign brought Egypt to calamity
• How a State of Emergency Became Egypt’s New Normal
• How Egyptian diplomacy navigated the summer of 2013
• How Far Will Sisi’s Government Go to Crush Protests?
• How Sisi Is Destabilising Egypt
• How Social Media Undermined Egypt’s Democratic Transition
• How the Egyptian State Codifies Media Censorship
• How the World Should Respond to Egypt’s Authoritarian Resurgence
• ‘Hospitals are for the dying’: Medical negligence inside Egyptian prisons

I (11)

• I.M.F. Reforms Not Enough to Repair Egypt’s Economy
• In Egypt, Sisi Faces Down Some Surprising Challengers
• Innovative Arab Media and the New Outlines of Citizenship
• Institutionalizing Authoritarianism in Egypt: al-Sisi’s Struggle for Power
• Interest and Intrigue in Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections
• Iqtisadi: The Good News from Egypt – and the Bad
• Is Cairo Going to War?
• Is Sisi Islam’s Martin Luther?
• Is Sisi’s Dismissal of Administrative Control Authority Head Mohamed Irfan Legal?
• Is the government building a parallel bureaucracy?
• Islamist parties in North Africa: A comparative analysis of Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt

J (3)

• January 25: Experts Weigh In Seven Years Later
• Joint Stakeholder Submission to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review – EGYPT
• Judge overseeing polling station recounts troubling incidents in constitutional referendum

K (1)

• Keeping Egypt’s Lights On

L (5)

• Legislating Authoritarianism: Egypt’s New Era of Repression
• Letter From Cairo
• Like a Hole in the Head
• Losing Egypt to Russia Isn’t the Real Problem—but Collapse Is – The National Interest
• Low-Cost Authoritarianism: The Egyptian Regime and Labor Movement Since 2013 (2015),

M (15)

• Manufacturing Consent
• Mapping European Leverage in the MENA Region: Egypt
• MB, Sisi’s Favorite Scapegoat – 7 Years of Deception
• MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA: CORRUPTION CONTINUES AS INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICAL RIGHTS WEAKEN
• Militarization of Egyptian Ministry of Health
• Militarization of Political Parties in Egypt
• Misinfo, Disinfo, and Fake News in Egypt’s COVID-19 “Infodemic”
• Missed Opportunity: The Politics of Police Reform in Egypt and Tunisia
• Mohamed Morsi: Martyr or Traitor?
• Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s First Democratically Elected President, Dies
• Money and image: Framing Mohamed Ali’s face off against Sisi
• Morsi’s Death Is yet Another Sombre Milestone in Egypt’s Transition
• Morsi’s Demise and the Black Box Problem
• Mubarak’s Acquittal and the State of Transitional Justice in Egypt
• Mubarak’s Death Renews Debates About His Rule—And Sisi’s

N (6)

• New Arab World Order
• New judicial heads first in series of appointments under new law granting Sisi power to select judicial leadership
• New Neighborhood Power Informal Popular Committees and Changing Local Governance in Egypt
• New Political Struggles for Egypt’s Military
• Nile Basin’s GERD dispute creates risks for Egypt, Sudan, and beyond
• Not Over Yet: Latest Wave of Middle East Protests A Reminder of 2011’s Unmet Demands

O (1)

• On Jamal Khashoggi, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Saudi Arabia

P (8)

• Policing Football in Times of Exception
• Policy Brief- Mubarak Freed, Egypt Shrugs
• Political Implications of President Morsi’s Demise
• Politics of COVID-19 in Egypt: Between Repression and Opportunism
• Power Politics or Principle?
• Power, the January 25 revolutionaries, and responsibility
• President Trump, Condemn This Sham Egyptian Election
• Protests in Egypt Show Trump’s Wrong about al-Sisi

Q (2)

• Q&A – “Why Did Egyptian Democratization Fail?” Fourteen Experts Respond
• Questioning Egypt’s Golden Era

R (13)

• Rabaa Massacre & Memory of a Whole Generation
• Raising the Stakes: Implications of a Second Sisi Term
• Ramy Kamel, Mada Masr, and Seeing Coptic Issues as Civil Liberties in Egypt
• Refugees and asylum-seekers in Egypt in the time of Covid-19
• Regional Agreements and Authoritarian Measures in Egypt
• Relinquishing the Driver’s Seat
• Report – Fighting Corruption or Protecting the Regime? Egypt’s Administrative Control Authority
• Report – Prayers Unanswered: Assessing the Impact of Egypt’s 2016 Church Construction Law
• Report: Rethinking U.S. Economic Aid to Egypt
• Repression in Egypt from Mubarak to Sisi
• Restoration, Transformation and Adaptation: Authoritarianism after 2011 in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran
• Revolutionary Politics and the Trap of Populist Temptation: Thoughts on the Egyptian Left, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Revolution
• Russia in the Middle East: Jack of All Trades, Master of None

S (21)

• Saudi-Emirati-Egyptian Alliance Steering US Middle East Policy
• Secular-Islamist Teamwork: Questions for Rabab El Mahdi
• Seven Years On: Why Egypt Failed to Become a Democracy
• Shoot, post and share: The viral accusations against Sisi and the military that led to Friday’s protests
• Short-Term Stability in Exchange for Long-Term Fragility
• Sinai and the Deal of the Century: A Reading in the Leaks
• Sisi Builds a Green Zone for Egypt
• Sisi’s Expanding Authority
• Sisi’s Military Maintains Power in a Fragmented Egypt
• Sisi’s Parliamentary Fears
• Sisi’s regime is a gift to the Islamic State
• Sisi’s Vanity Projects
• Sixth Anniversary of the January 25 Revolution
• Snapshot – Stripping Away Identity: The Dangers of a Repressive New Nationality Law in Egypt
• Snapshot – The Wrong Target: Egypt Imprisons Nonviolent Student Activist For Terrorism
• Standing in Agreement: Egypt’s Parliament Risks Becoming Rubber Stamp
• Steering the Wide Egyptian State: Ideology or Administration?
• Students and Democratization in Egypt
• Sudan’s Military: Following Egypt’s Playbook?
• SUEZ CANAL EXPANSION: WHAT’S IN IT FOR EGYPT?
• Sugar, rice and everything nice: Mobilizing voter turnout in Egypt’s presidential election

T (57)

• TACKLING EGYPT’S TRANSFORMATIONAL CHALLENGES
• Taking On Egypt’s Big Bureaucracy
• Tel Aviv Notes: Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections: The Death of Politics?
• Tel Aviv Notes: The “Sisi-Meter” is Ticking: ʿAbd al-Fattah al-Sisi and the Challenges Facing Egypt
• The Aftermath of Egypt’s 2018 Presidential Election: Stormy Weather Ahead
• The Arab League
• The Battle for Sinai: The Inside Story of Egypt’s Political Violence
• The Brotherhood: From Revolution to Coup – I
• The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies at the United Nations | 38th Session of the Human Rights Council
• The Civil Democratic Movement: Sisi’s Regime Reacts to Its Greatest Fear
• The Crisis of LGBTQ Communities in Egypt: Questions for Ahmed El Hady
• The Demise of Islamism in Egypt? – The Dissolution of al-Gamaʿa al-Islamiyya’s “Building and Development” Party
• The Egypt-Sudan Border: A Story of Unfulfilled Promise
• The Egyptian Crisis: Analysis of reality
• The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights’ Position on the Death Penalty
• The Egyptian Interregnum: The high cost of suppressing change
• The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in 2016: Scenarios and recommendations
• The Egyptian Parliamentary Elections 101
• The Egyptian Parliament’s First Task
• The Egyptian Prosecution: A Fact Sheet
• The Gulf Divided: The Impact of the Qatar Crisis
• The Long-Term Revolution: Protest Participation in the Arab World From 2011 to 2019
• The Middle East Strategic Alliance Has a Long Way To Go
• The Militarization of Politics and an Authoritarian Revival: The Eighth Annual CIHRS Report on Human Rights in the Arab Region
• THE NEW COUNTERTERRORISM LAW: ANOTHER BLOW TO THE CONSTITUTION, ENCOURAGES EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLING
• The Next Egyptian Parliament
• The Officers’ Republic: The Egyptian Military and Abuse of Power
• The Protests in Egypt: A Wake-Up Call?
• The Reality of Church Construction in Egypt
• The Retreat from Universalism in the Middle East and the World
• The Role of Egypt’s Lawyers Amid State Crackdown and Prosecutorial Repression
• The Social Justice Blind Spots in the New Arab Constitutions
• The State of Alliances in Egypt’s Elections
• The Struggle in the Egyptian Medical Syndicate
• The tragedy of Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi
• The Tragedy of Egypt’s Stolen Revolution
• The Tragic Tale of Egypt’s Decline: Is It Also the Story of America’s Future?
• The Trinity of Budgetary Institutions, Political Institutions and Fiscal Cyclicality: Evidence from Egypt
• The United States can’t save Egypt from itself
• The US-Egypt Political-Military Relationship: A Critical Assessment
• The Whole World Got Hosni Mubarak Wrong
• The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to General McMaster and Acting Secretary of State Sullivan
• The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo
• TIMEP Brief: Accountability in US Arms Transfers
• TIMEP Brief: Draft NGO Law of 2019
• TIMEP Brief: Egypt’s 2019 Constitutional Referendum
• TIMEP Brief: Freedom of Association
• TIMEP Brief: Potential Changes to Egypt’s Presidential Term Limits
• TIMEP Brief: Press Freedom in Egypt
• TIMEP Brief: Use of Surveillance Technology in MENA
• Tiran and Sanafir: Developments, Dynamics, and Implications
• Tiran, Sanafir, and the Island of Executive Power in Egypt
• Tracking Egypt’s Extraparliamentary Laws
• Transitional Justice in Egypt: A Challenge and an Opportunity
• Transitional justice policy in authoritarian contexts: The case of Egypt
• Triumph of the Bureaucracy: A Decade of Aborted Social and Political Change in Egypt
• Two Paths to Dominance: Military Businesses in Turkey and Egypt

U (9)

• U.S. Aid to Egypt Should Hinge on Rule of Law
• UN rights review roundly criticizes Egypt over prison conditions, civil society violations, discrimination
• UN: Act on Reprisals by Egypt
• Under Threat: Egypt’s Systematic Campaign against NGOs
• Understanding Egypt’s Strategy in Libya
• Unmet Demands, Tenuous Stability
• US Congress Should Not Be Fooled By Egypt’s Platitudes
• US midterm elections: Bad news for Sisi?
• ‘Union to Defend the Constitution’ brings opposition forces together to reject constitutional amendments

V (2)

• Vision of the Egyptian Political System for Education
• Voting in the dark: Ramming the constitutional amendments through

W (21)

• Washington’s Egypt Dilemma
• Water Conflict Between Egypt and Ethiopia: A Defining Moment for Both Countries
• What Does the Future Hold for U.S.-Egyptian Relations?
• What Egypt’s Court Ruling on Protest Law Means
• What is behind dismissal of Egyptian Defense Minister ?
• What Sisi’s ‘victory’ means for Egypt’s future
• Whatever is the Matter With Egypt? Nothing All That New
• While GERD’s Reservoir Remains Empty, Tensions Rise in Dam Dispute
• Who Is Running the Egyptian State?
• Why Egypt’s New Parliament Will Be Born Broken
• Why Is Egypt Amending Its Protest Law Now?
• Why Is Egypt Attacking Human Rights Groups?
• Why Is Trump Helping Egypt’s Dictator Entrench His Power?
• Why Sisi Seems Worried
• With Freedom and Justice for Sisi
• Women and Quotas in Egypt’s Parliament
• Women’s Struggle for Citizenship: Civil Society and Constitution Making after the Arab Uprisings
• Working Paper- Investment Climate and Firms’ Exports in Egypt: When Politics Matter
• Working Paper- Political Instability, Uncertainty, Democracy, and Economic Growth in Egypt
• World Report 2020 | Events of 2019
• Worse Than Mubarak

Y (1)

• Youth Empowerment towards Political Change