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Mediterranean Quarterly (2001) 12 (4): 122–124.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Asad AbuKhalil Nasser M. Kalawoun: The Struggle for Lebanon: A Modern History of Lebanese-Egyptian Relations . London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000. 224 pages. ISBN 1-86064-423-6. $59.50. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2001 Asad AbuKhalil is associate professor of political science...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2012) 23 (3): 52–62.
Published: 01 September 2012
... for US policy and its ideals of self-determination and human rights? Will the liberals triumph, or will the Egyptian people face a hard-line Islamic future? This article attempts to answer these questions. Richard T. Sale is a former intelligence correspondent for UPI and the Middle East Times...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (1): 12–37.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Gawdat Bahgat Egypt holds limited proven oil and gas reserves. Increasingly, these hydrocarbon resources cannot meet the country’s rising energy demand. Consequently, Cairo has turned to nuclear and renewable power. In addition, the Egyptian authorities are under heavy pressure to restrain...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (4): 89–109.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Gregory Brew From January 1957 to August 1958, US policy in the Middle East was guided by the Eisenhower Doctrine. A key facet of the doctrine was the creation of a coalition of conservative Arab states to oppose the influence of Egyptian president Gamel Abdul Nasser. The region's major...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2016) 27 (1): 97–121.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Cairo's insistence that its “historic rights” to the Nile be preserved and the belligerent response by Egyptian politicians to Ethiopia's inauguration of the Millennium Project in the spring of 2013. A careful survey of recent relations between the two states demonstrates that the dispute retains a high...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2017) 28 (1): 29–57.
Published: 01 March 2017
...-Cypriot hopes. The gas discoveries were not the principal motivation behind the Greek and Greek-Cypriot attempts to establish a trilateral framework of structured cooperation with Israel and Egypt. The export of Cypriot gas to Egyptian liquefied natural gas facilities, however, is the only realistic...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2005) 16 (2): 66–84.
Published: 01 June 2005
... the education debate. I argue that containing the infl uence of Islamist fundamentalism on the educational system has been a major security concern for the Egyptian government and a decisive element in education policy making. Education has always been used by the various regimes in Egypt as a source...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2008) 19 (2): 19–46.
Published: 01 June 2008
... of the Mandate.6 The Egyptian government affirmed its opposition to any involvement of its 3. Muhammad Faysal Abd al-Munin, Asrar 1948 (Cairo: Maktaba al-Qahira al-Haditha, 1968), 168; Yaacov Shimoni, “Haaravim Likrat Milhemet Israel-Arav: 1945 – 1948,” Hamizrah Haha- dash, no. 12 (1962): 204 – 5. Arab...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2012) 23 (1): 52–66.
Published: 01 March 2012
.... This development signaled troubles ahead because a presidential election was scheduled for the next year. No one knew whether Mubarak or his son would be the ruling party’s candidate. Some Egyptian youth, inspired by the recent ousting of Tunisia’s president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, used the Internet...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2012) 23 (4): 135–137.
Published: 01 December 2012
... rule in 1882 (and the onset of British occupation the same year), with an understandable focus on the Egyptian regimes under Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and Mubarak and their struggle to build regime legitimacy and navigate Egypt through the precarious history of the Middle East over...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2012) 23 (4): 137–140.
Published: 01 December 2012
... rule in 1882 (and the onset of British occupation the same year), with an understandable focus on the Egyptian regimes under Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and Mubarak and their struggle to build regime legitimacy and navigate Egypt through the precarious history of the Middle East over...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2012) 23 (4): 141–144.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Reviews  139 Instead, Cook has done a more significant service by charting the political, economic, social, and diplomatic development of modern Egypt since the end of Ottoman rule in 1882 (and the onset of British occupation the same year), with an understandable focus on the Egyptian regimes...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2006) 17 (3): 1–11.
Published: 01 September 2006
... as the Egyptian Arab Socialist Organization. The country’s main political forces, the Wafd, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Nasserites, and the commu- nists, were not however, represented. When President Hosni Mubarak assumed the presidency after President Sadat’s assassination, the country was facing...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2009) 20 (3): 122–125.
Published: 01 September 2009
... Egypt remains “a leader in educa- tion throughout the Middle East.” Further, Egypt for years guaranteed free education and employment, a boon to poor Egyptians. Yet President Muhammad Hosny Mubarak, whose rule has lasted longer than all but two of the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, is under- mining...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2009) 20 (3): 125–128.
Published: 01 September 2009
... throughout the Middle East.” Further, Egypt for years guaranteed free education and employment, a boon to poor Egyptians. Yet President Muhammad Hosny Mubarak, whose rule has lasted longer than all but two of the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, is under- mining the benefits that education brought to poor...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2016) 27 (3): 135–137.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Mediterranean. During the late Bronze Age the well-­established and solid civilizations of, among others, the Mycenaeans, Minoans, Assyrians, Canaanites, and Egyptians all came under pressure from the so-­called Sea Peoples, who wreaked havoc on trade networks, communities, political relationships...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2009) 20 (3): 63–76.
Published: 01 September 2009
... revolt against any Pales- tinian official who returns to the strip with the help of Israel.17 In the aftermath of the Gaza war, the Egyptian government sponsored “reconciliation talks” between Hamas and Fatah. The goal is to establish a national-unity Palestinian government. Despite intense...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (4): 45–63.
Published: 01 December 2014
... leaders who had been close to Ben Ali; in Cairo, it was senior military officers who had all been appointed and promoted by Mubarak. They formed the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, and two weeks after the protests began in Tahrir Square, they deposed him. The Egyptian revolution highlights...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2012) 23 (3): 34–51.
Published: 01 September 2012
...) provided the opportunity to halt and then repel military advances before foreign forces entered Israel proper. The strategic depth pro- vided by the territorial expansion of Israel in 1967 forced the Syrians and Egyptians to spend their principal offensive force outside of Israel, greatly reducing...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (2): 128–131.
Published: 01 June 2015
.... When Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956, Britain and France even colluded with Israel in a failed attempt to overthrow Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. In 1967 events took a more perilous turn when Nasser closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ship- ping, a clear violation of UN...