Blar i Chr. Michelsens Institutt på emneord "Egypt"
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Custodians of social peace or contenders in a popularity contest? The Egyptian Armed Forces and Egypt’s Coptic Christians
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:4, Working paper, 2015-04-16)This report analyses current and past relations between the Egyptian Coptic Christian community and the Egyptian Armed Forces, discussing contemporary events on the backdrop of historical analysis. Based on a thorough ... -
Food securities and social conflict
(CMI Report R 2014:01, Research report, 2014-06-01)Following rising food prices violent ‘food riots’ took place in about 40 countries around the globe in 2007-2008. These developments have led to renewed interest among both scholars and policymakers in the role of food ... -
Hamas and the Arab Spring: Introduction
(Middle East Policy vol. 20 no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-08-01)The Arab Spring is a critical juncture for examining Hamas, a movement created in the context of a popular revolt (against Israeli occupation) similar to those that have reverberated throughout the Middle East. Since the ... -
Marriage is Politics: Prospects for Women's Equality after the Arab Spring
(CMI Insight 2013:1, Report, 2013-04-30)Hopes were high that the uprisings that began in 2011 across the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) that have come to be known as “the Arab Spring” would bring not just democratization, but greater gender equality. ... -
Military trials in Egypt: 2011-2014
(CMI Insight 2014:10, Report, 2014-12-09)The use of military tribunals to try civilians was one of the issues that made people rise against then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. This CMI Insight investigates the extent to which this practice has continued ... -
Prevalence, drivers, and review of the literature on the effects of interventions to reduce the prevalence of female genital mutilation
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Sexual violence and state violence against women in Egypt, 2011-2014
(CMI Insight 2014:7, Report, 2014-09-04)Egyptian women were crucial to the movement that overthrew Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in the 2011 revolution. However, both in the revolutionary and post-revolutionary period women have also become targets of sexual ... -
The accumulation of unexplained wealth by public officials: Making the offence of illicit enrichment enforceable
(U4 Brief 2012:1, Report, 2012-01-25)Recent high-profile cases have focused attention on the transfer of assets abroad by heads of state and other senior officials from developing countries in amounts that far exceed their legitimate sources of income. Article ... -
The Egyptian military in politics and the economy: Recent history and current transition status
(CMI Insight 2013:2, Report, 2013-10-24)The Egyptian military has been playing a decisive role in national politics since the eruption of the 2011 uprisings. The Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) governed the country from February 2011 until June 2012. They ...