The nexus of military, money, and the state in Egypt
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Sisi's Authoritarian Formula
Egypt Security Sector Report
This week’s issue looks into the Air Force business empire’s transformation into a parallel presidential economy, the limits of military “landlord capitalism,” the crackdown on Shia Muslims, rising deaths in cu...
Empire in the Mirror
This book review is part of a series on the history of the Egyptian army in Sudan.
Eve M. Troutt Powell’s A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the Mastery of the Sudan, published by the University of California Press...
The Crowd-Phobic Republic
Egypt Security Sector Report
This week’s issue looks at the regime’s fear of unscripted public celebration, the militarization of crisis management, the proposed blank check for the Air Force-run business empire, renewed displacement in Si...
The Army Was Born in Sudan
Before anything else, a note about the frame of this review. This is the third entry in my series on the history of the Egyptian military in colonial Sudan, so I will be reading Khaled Fahmy’s All the Pasha’s Men with particular attention t...
The Military’s Civilian Problem
Egypt Security Sector Report
This week’s issue opens with Salah Salem’s 1953 defense of military rule, and how the officers’ contempt for civilian authority has hardened under Sisi into a governing doctrine. It then turns to Sisi’s inaugur...
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