Egypt imprisons pro-democracy activist, blogger for 5 years
Alaa Abdel Fattah, a pro-democracy activist and blogger, was sentenced to five years imprisonment by an Egyptian court for allegedly organizing a protest without permission and for assaulting a police...
View ArticleEgypt’s prospects – a mixed picture, at best
An upcoming investor conference will likely give President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a much-needed boost of international support and generate some capital for the economy. But the sort of sustained...
View ArticleEgypt conducting ‘systematic campaign’ against NGOs
Despite the repressive environment that existed for Egyptian civil society and NGOs in the Mubarak era, pre-2011 Egypt nonetheless had one of the most vibrant civil societies in the region, which...
View ArticleEgypt’s civil society ‘under threat’
Egypt’s January 2011 Revolution brought with it a hope that the nation’s civil society would be able to work free of oppression, intimidation, and harassment, writes the Project on Middle East...
View ArticleEgypt’s case study in political inertia
Since General Abdel Al-Sisi took power in July 2013, following a wave of protests against Egypt’s first democratically elected president, it has become increasingly clear that the government has no...
View ArticleU.S. lifting arms ban on Egypt ‘stores up trouble for future’
The Obama administration has lifted a ban on arms transfers to Egypt introduced after the military overthrew the country’s elected government. “The United States has had a decadeslong strategic...
View ArticleU.S. repeats old mistake? Military aid strangles Egypt’s democracy
Islamist militants hit Egypt’s two largest cities on Sunday with a bombing in Cairo and an attack on a church in Alexandria, leaving one policeman dead and seven people wounded, Reuters reports: In a...
View ArticleU.S. sends ‘double message’ to Egypt: nationalists dominate politics-free zone
The Obama administration sent a double message last month when it resumed military aid to Egypt, writes Bloomberg’s Ahmed Feteha: The most populous Arab nation will now receive F-16 jets, Harpoon...
View ArticleEgypt’s Muslim Brotherhood ‘rising again’ against regime’s token politics
The current regime in Egypt faces two main challenges to its efforts to realize stability in the short or medium term, according to a leading analyst: its ability to reconstitute the political...
View ArticleSeduced by strongman Sisi? Egypt’s repression ‘worse than Mubarak’
Egypt will hold a parliamentary election that was due in March before the end of the year, Reuters reports: The election was put on hold after the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that part of the...
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