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Global Response to Coronavirus Exposes Governments’ Fault Lines
There’s a message in Pakistani and Egyptian responses to the Coronavirus: neither ultra-conservative science-rejecting worldviews nor self-serving autocratic policies aimed at regime enhancement produced...
Egypt: Providing Low Income Citizens with Affordable Housing
The World Bank has announced additional financing of US$500 million to
support ongoing efforts to improve the affordability of formal housing for
low-income households in Egypt...
Protesters push Arab militaries off their pedestal
A decade of anti-government protests in the
Arab world have thrown popular trust in the military into the garbage bin and
undermined the military’s position as...
Turkey’s Role in the Libyan Conflict
On January 8, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish
President Recep Erdogan met in Istanbul. Discussions focused on the launch of
the Turkish Stream gas...
Italy funds projects for agri-business development in Egypt and investment promotion in Iraq
The Italian Development Cooperation is contributing more than €4.55m to
two United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) projects in
Egypt and Iraq. A signing ceremony to...
2019 was a decade of defiance and dissent -The 2020s are likely to be no different
Like 2019, the new year and perhaps the new
decade is likely to be pockmarked by popular protest, particularly in the
Middle East and North Africa.
The...
The Exclusive Economic Zone between Libya and Turkey
The Memorandum of Understanding for maritime
cooperation between Turkey and Libya of the Government of National Accord (GNA)
led by Fayez al-Sarraj was definitively voted by...
Arab Spring and Third Wave of Democratisation: The case of Egypt
Professor Huntington introduced the
concept of the third wave of democratization in five phases. They are the emergence
of reformers, acquiring powers, failure of liberalization, backward...
The Turning Tides of Egypt
Overcoming tyranny is neither easy nor impossible.
The Egyptian people know this very well as Egypt is still living through a
decade of hope and disenchantment....
After 150 Years: Suez Canal Still matters
“No one is
more a canalist than I, but I want the Canal to belong to Egypt, not Egypt to
the Canal”-Isma’il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt
The...