Blogging Egypt’s election over, what now for the economy? Yomna Yasser May 31, 2014 0 Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s landslide victory in the presidential race, with over 93 per cent of the popular vote, is a…
Blogging U.S. Gives in to Egypt, Getting Russia out of The Picture – for Now Yomna Yasser Apr 27, 2014 0 This past week the Obama Administration announced that the United States will deliver 10 Apache helicopters to…
Blogging Why Hasn’t Egypt’s Sisi Announced His Presidential Bid? Yomna Yasser Mar 25, 2014 0 We are still waiting for an answer to why Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi hasn't resigned from his post as minister of…
Blogging Is Egypt Securing Diplomatic Success over Ethiopia? Yomna Yasser Mar 11, 2014 0 The Blue Nile accounts for 85 percent of the Nile's water flow. It joins the White Nile, whose headwaters lie in…
Blogging The Real Reason Egypt Is Obsessed with Putting Its Military Leader on Everything Yomna Yasser Feb 22, 2014 0 How much do you love Field Marshal Abdel Fattah El-Sisi? Don't answer that —– take it instead as a pitch for a…
Blogging Egypt Will Vote a Symbolic ‘Yes’ to Stability Yomna Yasser Jan 14, 2014 0 Today and tomorrow, Egyptians will go to the polls to vote on an amended constitution. That is not true, though.…
Blogging Can Qatar Regain Influence In Egypt? Yomna Yasser Dec 30, 2013 0 Last month hundreds of Egyptians burned Qatari flags outside Doha's embassy in Cairo to protest Qatar's alleged…
Blogging Is Jailing Teenage Girls on the Democracy ‘Roadmap’? Yomna Yasser Nov 30, 2013 0 A few weeks ago, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Cairo to say that the roadmap Egypt's military rulers…
Blogging Egypt Looks for a Path Toward Democracy Yomna Yasser Nov 21, 2013 0 Bassem Youssef, Egypt’s popular television comedian, expresses the irreverent confidence this country will…
Blogging Egypt Needs Ambition, Not Just to Muddle through Yomna Yasser Oct 9, 2013 0 Amid the recurring violence and polarisation in Egypt, it is clear that the society has lost – at least…