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Egypt
Population: 77.8 mn.
GDP: 219.0 bn.
Debt: 26.6 bn.
Overview:

The military retain the upper hand in battles with ascendant Islamist parties over a new constitution and managing the lacklustre economy, with minority liberals and secularists in the middle of an increasingly bitter contest.

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  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

What lies beyond Tahrir

The revolution will remain under threat from the military’s grip on political power, the best guarantee of its privileges

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

Subsidy cuts and crony capitalists

Religious and political arguments will dominate discussion in Cairo’s cafés this year, but more mundane matters of economic policy, interest rates and taxation levels may do more to shape the country.

  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

Electoral alliances

Egyptians set off on their democratic electoral road using a system designed bythe army and with a confusing 42 or so parties to vote for, 31 formed since January’s revolution (AC Vol 52 No 21). To add to the difficulties, parties keep shifting among the ...

  • Vol 52 No 21
  •  21st October 2011

Generals stall the revolution

The fall of Hosni Mubarak left a vacuum and the army wants to be sure his replacement will protect its interests

  • Vol 52 No 21
  •  21st October 2011

Coffers empty, power for sale

The revolution has run low on funds as tourists have stayed away and businesses closed after President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak fell in February. Flaunting its nationalism, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in June rejected a US$3 billion International...

  • Vol 52 No 16
  •  5th August 2011

Many more scores to settle

The military makes history by putting one of its own on trial but cannot disguise the regime’s loss of direction

  • Vol 52 No 16
  •  5th August 2011

Strange alliances

Political parties are talking about a ‘Democratic Alliance’, combining the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) with rival groups such as Al Wafd, Al Ghad and others within an electoral alliance whose composition is not clear. The number o...

  • Vol 52 No 11
  •  27th May 2011

Blue Nile blues

Egypt’s revolution seems to have boosted prospects for a settlement with Ethiopia over the Nile waters dispute. Cairo’s interim Prime Minister, Essam Abdel Aziz Sharaf, made a cordial visit to Addis Ababa on 16 May. The parties agreed on various joint com...

  • Vol 52 No 7
  •  1st April 2011

In command and control

The generals have won some important tactical victories against the activists of Tahrir Square

  • Vol 52 No 6
  •  18th March 2011

Ambushing the revolution

Oppositionists want sweeping constitutional change; the military wants quick fixes to the old constitution, then fresh elections

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