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Sisi Responds to Protests in Egypt With an Iron Fist

Bottom Line Up FrontIn late September, protests erupted throughout Egypt in response to the widespread and systemic corruption of the regime of Abdel [...] More

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Information Warfare and the Gulf Dispute

The use of cyber capabilities to influence geopolitical confrontations has become more and more common. Even those countries who are not major global [...] More

Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

President Donald Trump and his cabinet are pondering an executive order to add the Muslim Brotherhood to the United States’ Foreign Terrorist [...] More
Designating the Muslim Brotherhood As Terrorists Is Complicated

Designating the Muslim Brotherhood As Terrorists Is Complicated

The Trump Administration is considering whether to designate the Muslim Brotherhood – a movement that espouses a doctrine of political Islam and has [...] More

The Potential to Increase the Terrorist Threat

The Cipher Brief sat down with Michele Dunne, Director and Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Center, to [...] More

The U.S. Should Be Wary About Overplaying Its Hand

The Muslim Brotherhood preaches a violent, exclusivist ideology. Its websites and social media accounts are chock-full of anti-Christian and [...] More
Sisi, the IMF, and Egypt's Crumbling Economy

Sisi, the IMF, and Egypt's Crumbling Economy

When the Arab Spring reached Egypt in January 2011, sparking unprecedented mass protests in Tahrir Square and across the country, calls for [...] More

Egypt's IMF Deal Dodges Crisis—For Now

November has arrived, and with it, the long-anticipated devaluation of the Egyptian pound. Precipitated by weeks of growing panic in the currency [...] More

Egypt's Economy: Not Out of the Woods Yet

Two weeks ago, Egypt appeared to be on the brink. The Egyptian pound, which sold at 5.9 LE/$ at the time of Egypt’s January 2011 “Arab Spring” [...] More

Where Did They Go Wrong?

August 14 2013 was the most violent day in contemporary Egyptian history. Security forces brutally dispersed demonstrations in northern Cairo’s Rabaa [...] More
Is There a Future for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?

Is There a Future for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?

After a brief moment in the sunshine four years ago, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has retreated deep into the shadows under perhaps the most [...] More

No End In Sight

Three years ago on August 14, 2013, nearly 1000 Islamist protesters were killed by Egyptian security forces in Rabaa and Nahda squares in Egypt’s [...] More