EGYPT
Suggested reading & research from Ed Knox
Articles:
- "‘Emperor has no Clothes:’ Trump asked of Egypt’s al-Sisi, ‘Where’s my Favorite Dictator?’" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Sept 14, 2019
- "Egypt passes wide-ranging constitutional amendments" by Mirette F. Mabrouk on "Middle East Institute: Monday Briefing," April 29, 2019
- "Egypt Looks to Offshore Gas Field for Growth and Influence" by Clifford Krauss and Declan Walsh in "The New York Times," March 11, 2019
- "Egypt: Tailoring Constitutions For The Ruling Military" by Rana Allam on "Lobe Log," Feb 7, 2019
- "Egypt continues efforts to unite Libyan military" by Jonathan M. Winer on "Middle East Institute: Monday Briefing," March 19, 2018
- "Egypt in the middle" by Nathan Stock on "Middle East Institute: Monday Briefing," March 12, 2018
- "Need a North Korean Missile? Call the Cairo Embassy" by Declan Walsh in "The New York Times," March 3, 2018
- "Secret Alliance: Israel Carries Out Airstrikes in Egypt, With Cairo’s O.K." by David D. Kirkpatrick in "The New York Times," Feb 3, 2018
- "Crackdown on presidential competition reflects regime’s fears" by Paul Salem on "Middle East Institute: Monday Briefing," Jan 29, 2018
- "A Return to Ambiguity in U.S.-Egyptian Relations" by Paul Salem on "Middle East Institute Monday Briefing," Aug 28, 2017
- "The Middle East is the Hub for China’s Modern Silk Road" by Deborah Lehr on "Middle East Institute," Aug 15, 2017
- "U.S., Egypt Back in Business" by Paul Salem on "Middle Institute Monday Briefing," April 3, 2017
- "Copts in Egypt" on "Wikipedia" [undated]
- "Thousands of Egyptians Enter Israel for Holy Fire Rite in Jerusalem" by Nir Hasson in "Haaretz," April 28, 2016
- "Trump to al-Sisi: Syria’s al-Assad is a Brave, steadfast Man (Beirut Report)" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Jan 24, 2017
- "Egypt’s Failed Revolution" by Peter Hessler in "The New Yorker," Jan 2, 2017
- "The Middle East in the Year Ahead" by various authors on "Middle East Institute," Jan 5, 2017 (includes pieces on Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudia Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen and the "War on Terror")
- "Egypt: Expecting Greater Forbearance" by Amr Hamzawy at "Carnegie Endowment for International Peace," Nov 11, 2016
- "'We Don't Owe Anyone': Egypt Jousts With its Chief Benefactor, Saudia Arabia" by Nour Youssef & Diaa Hadid in "The New York Times," Nov 1, 2016
- "It’s Difficult to Keep Allies in Line In the Post-Ideological Era" by Shireen T. Hunter on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Oct 27, 2016
- "Monday Briefing: Egypt Maneuvers with Russia as Cairo Simmers" by Paul Salem on "Middle East Institute," Oct 17, 2016
- "Facing Water Challenges in the Middle East" by Aysegul Kibaroglu on "Middle East Institute, Sept 14, 2016
- "Can Israel and the Arab States Be Friends?" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," Aug 27, 2016
- "Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart" by Scott Anderson with photos by Paolo Pellegrin in "The New York Times," Aug 11, 2016
- "What If Saudi Arabia Collapses?" by Theodore Karasik and Joseph Cozza on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Aug 10, 2016
- "Turkey’s Coup That Wasn’t" by Roger Cohen in “The New York Times,” July 16, 2016
- "A century on: Why Arabs resent Sykes-Picot" on "aljazeera.com" [undated]
- "Is the Mideast disintegrating or just being Auctioned Off?" by Patrick Cockburn on "Informed Comment," June 29, 2016
- "Five myths about sharia" by Asifa Quraishi-Landes in "The Washington Post," June 24, 2016
- "Jordan’s Syrian Refugee Economic Gamble" by Taylor Luck on "Midle East Institute," May 24, 2016
- "The Middle East’s fading frontiers" by Thanassis Cambanis in "The Boston Globe," May 1, 2016
- "Trouble Brewing in Egypt" by Paul R. Pillar on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," April 27, 2016
- "The False News from the Sisi State" by Mona Eltahawy in "The New York Times," April 4, 2015
- "The Panama Papers and Middle East Leaders’ Secret Bank Accounts" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," April 4, 2016
- "Egypt to Host King Salman amid Economic Crisis" by Paul Salem on "Middle East Institute," April 4, 2016
- "Sprawling Mural Pays Homage to Cairo’s Garbage Collectors" by Kareem Fahim in "The New York Times," March 28, 2016
- "Egypt Running on Empty" by Joshua Stacher on "Middle East Research and Information Project," March 8, 2016
- "President Xi Jinping of China Is All Business in Middle East Visit" by Jane Perlez in "The New York Times," Jan 30, 2016
- "Gulf States Guarding Their Interests in Saudi-Iran Rift" by Declan Walsh in "The New York Times," Jan 5, 2016
- "Most important Neglected Middle East Stories of 2015" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Dec 31, 2015
- "New Poll Highlights Need for Reform in the Middle East" by Derek Davison on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Dec 10, 2015
- "What Are Turkish Troops Doing in Northern Iraq?" by Dexter Filkins in "The New Yorker," Dec 9, 2015
- "Egypt: Sisi’s Rule Teetering" by by Emile Nakhleh on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Nov 17, 2015
- "Egypt: Into the Unknown" by Steven A. Cook on "Council on Foreign Relations" blog, November 9, 2015
- "Alexandria Flooded Again, Much of Egypt's Delta as Well, as Yemen, Oman Get a Cyclone" on "Middle East Eye" editor's blog, Nov 4, 2015
- "ISIS Ally in Egypt Emerges as Key Suspect in Russian Jet Crash" by David D. Kirkpatrick in "The New York Times," Nov 9, 2015
- "A Mass Migration Crisis, and It May Yet Get Worse" by Rod Nordland in "The New York Times," Oct 31, 2015
- "What If They Gave a War and Everyone Came? - What Could Possibly Go Wrong (October 2015 Edition)" by Peter Van Buren on "TomDispatch.com," Oct 22, 2015
- "Putin’s Imperial Adventure in Syria" by Simon Sebag Montefiore in "The New York Times," Oct 9, 2015
- "What is Russia’s Strategy in Syria & Why does Egypt Approve?" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Oct 8, 2015
- "The Middle East: Who says popular quest for change has been quelled?" by James M. Dorsey on "The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer," Aug 29, 2015
- "Middle Eastern Zen" by Roger Cohen in "The New York Times," Aug 27, 2015
- "Learning to Speak Lingerie: Chinese merchants and the inroads of globalization" by Peter Hessler in "The New Yorker," Aug 10, 2015 (If not available online, click here for a PDF file.)
- "Defying Gravity: Working Toward a Regional Strategy for a Stable Middle East" by Ross Harrison at "Middle East Institute," May 6, 2015
- "The Middle East in 2015 and Beyond: Trends and Drivers" by Paul Salem at "Middle East Institute," Nov 18, 2014
- "Audio forensics experts authenticate Sisi's voice on leaked tapes" by David Hearst on "MiddleEastEye.net," May 12, 2015
- "Leaks allege Egypt's Sisi 'despised' and colluded with Gulf rulers" by Mamoon Alabbasi on "MiddleEastEye.net," Feb 13, 2015
- "French, British colonialism grew a root of terrorism" by Stephen Kinzer in "The Boston Globe," Feb 11, 2015
- "Putin on the Nile: an Isolated Russia Seeks friends in Egypt w/ offer of Nuclear Plant" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Feb 11, 2015
- "The slaying of the Saudi spider" by David Hearst on "Middle East Eye," Jan 31, 2015
- "The Arabs, three years after Bouazizi" by Rami Khouri in "The Daily Star" (Lebanon), Dec 18, 2013
- "The Middle East warmly welcomes Iran Deal, sees it as Step toward Denuclearizing Israel" by Juan Cole in "Informed Comment," Nov 26, 2013
- "Mother Nature and the Middle Class," article by Thomas L. Friedman in The New York Times, September 21, 2013.
- "The Lost Land of Egypt," an article by Maria Golia for the Middle East Institute, September 05, 2013.
- "Two New Books Spotlight the History and Consequences of the Suez Crisis," (book review of Ike's Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East by Michael Doran, reviewed by David Frum, and book review of Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower’s Campaign for Peace by Alex von Tunzelmann, reviewed by Evan Thomas) in "The New York Times," Oct 12, 2016
- "Bikinis Not Burqas" a review by Bari Weiss of "Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution" by Mona Eltahawy in "The Wall Street Journal," April 27, 2015
Books:
For a list of scholarly books on the Middle East, click here.
For a list of other books on the Middle East, including these on Egypt, click here.
For information on how to search the catalog of books in Maine State Public Libraries click here.
- Doran, Michael, Ike's Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
- Kerr, Malcolm H., The Arab Cold War: Gamal 'Abd al-Nasir and His Rivals, 1958-1970, 1971
- Mahfouz, Naguib, Adrift on the Nile or other novels by the author
- Soueif, Ahdaf, Cairo: My City, Our Revolution
- Steinhauer, Olen, The Cairo Affair: A Novel, 2014
- von Tunzelmann, Alex, Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower’s Campaign for Peace, 2016
For a list of scholarly books on the Middle East, click here.
For a list of other books on the Middle East, including these on Egypt, click here.
For information on how to search the catalog of books in Maine State Public Libraries click here.
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