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Who are the real betrayers of Egypt, Critics or Sycophants?
“You are betraying your country by exposing its defects!” is a common accusation made by the sycophants to the ruling regime in Egypt who...
Egypt needs to better leverage its foreign policy
Despite being a developing nation incapable of providing adequate job opportunities for its youth, Egypt possesses tremendous soft power that, if well utilized, could...
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...