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Although the Obama administration is right to be concerned about Egypt's domestic political trajectory, conditioning the bilateral strategic relationship on Cairo's progress toward democracy will only make matters worse under the current circumstances.

يوم الثلاثاء الماضي، وخلال مكالمة هاتفية مع الرئيس المصري عبد الفتاح السيسي، تحدث الرئيس الأمريكي باراك أوباما عن تحوّل متباين، بل هام في سياسة الولايات المتحدة تجاه مصر. فمن جهة، رفع أوباما الحظر المفروض على إرسال أنظمة الأسلحة وهي - 12 طائرة من طراز " F-16"، و 20 صاروخ من

"Don't stop history! Nobody will be able to fight the divine decrees, nor delay the day when it rises. This world has changed and the world has evolved." Only one week after President Hosni Mubarak's resignation was announced in 2011, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi delivered those words during a powerful speech

Since the July 2013 coup against Mohamed Morsi, Cairo has been particularly brash in its approach to security and appears more willing to project force abroad.

في الفترة بين 13 و15 آذار/ مارس، تعقد مصر مؤتمراً للاستثمار الاقتصادي في شرم الشيخ، يركز بشكل رئيسي على قطاع الطاقة. وترى حكومة الرئيس المصري عبد الفتاح السيسي أن المؤتمر يشكل عنصراً هاماً من استراتيجية تهدف إلى تحسين الاقتصاد من خلال جذب استثمارات القطاع الخاص. إن الرئيس السيسي ليس ديمقراطياً

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi signed a preliminary agreement to jointly build Egypt's first nuclear power plant, after the two leaders met in Cairo on February 9-10. This announcement comes after multiple reports last November about Russia's state nuclear power company Rosatom's agreement to help

For the moment at least, many Egyptians have become so fearful of change that they are content to live with their broken state, which they view as preferable to further collapse.

Even if Cairo wanted to normalize relations with the Assad regime, its need to stay on good terms with Saudi Arabia and the UAE would seriously constrain how far it could go in that direction.

Although past uprisings have been quickly snuffed out, the latest calls for mass protests have been more strategically savvy and explicitly violent than usual.