The nexus of military, money, and the state in Egypt
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More Arms, More Business, More Repression
Egypt Security Sector Report
This week: closer military ties with Seoul, renewed Egyptian airstrikes on Sudanese gold miners, a proposed US Javelin sale, an opaque conscription review, and expanding ammunition production. I track the milit...
How 1973 Turned Into a National Creed
Any serious review of Mustafa Menshawy’s State, Memory, and Egypt’s Victory in the 1973 War must start by acknowledging that the Egyptian military in October 1973 was quite different from that of June 1967.
Over the period between the war...
All in the Family, All Under Watch
Egypt Security Sector Report
This issue covers Sisi’s propaganda offensive, arrested fact-checkers, intelligence and judicial family ties, military business expansion, US arms contracts, and Emirati investment—alongside the Regeni verdict,...
A Small, Small World of Missiles
On 25 October 1967, less than five months after the June defeat, the Egyptian weekly Akher Saa published a photo showing a soldier aiming a bulky tube from his shoulder. Under the playful headline “A Small … Small … Small World,” the captio...
The Surveillance State Gets a Face-Lift
Egypt Security Sector Report
This week, an intelligence-linked company is helping build Egypt’s biometric identity system, raising unanswered questions about who will control citizens’ facial data. Elsewhere, I follow new US military contr...
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