Egypt

26/04/2023
Israel at 75

This year Israel celebrates 75 years since it was established. That spawned the Arab-Israeli conflict and the displacement of the Palestinians, known as the Nakba. PRIO researchers have done extensive research on the formative years of Israel and the events surrounding the establishment.

11/10/2021
Master’s Theses on the Middle East Successfully Defended

This year, four master's students at the UiO-PRIO Student Programme have successfully defended their master's theses on topics related to the Middle East. Their theses address a wide variety of topics: effects of sectarian violence in Egypt, sexual violence during the Egyptian Revolution, France's involvement in the Lebanese Civil War, and the Reagan administration's approach to the Palestinian question.

16/09/2021
Podcast Episode on Natural Resources and Struggles for Power in the Eastern Mediterranean

Recent discovery of hydrocarbon has exacerbated existing geopolitical tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean. In an episode of PRIO's Peace in a Pod, PRIO Cyprus Centre Researcher Zenonas Tziarras gives an overview of the Eastern Mediterranean, laying out its key players and its recent history, and sheds light on why hydrocarbons are consequential for a region that includes several Middle Eastern countries.

26/08/2021
Malin Nærum Aadalen Successfully Defends Master's Thesis

Malin Nærum Aadalen has successfully defended her thesis "The Effects of Different Types of Sectarian Violence on Trust in State- and Societal Institutions. Evidence from Egypt".

Congratulations, Malin!

09/02/2021
Positive Impact of Eastern Med Hydrocarbons Hinges on Overcoming Differences

In a recent article entitled "Energy and Sovereignty in the new Geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean" published in the Oxford Energy Forum, PRIO Cyprus Centre researcher Zenonas Tziarras asks how much of the recent crises can really be attributed to hydrocarbons, given other underlying issues and a history of regional tensions. He argues that hydrocarbons can only have a positive impact on eastern Mediterranean dynamics if the regional states (first) manage to resolve their fundamental and sometime decades-old differences.

13/12/2016
PRIO Spearheads New Climate-Conflict Project

The project will focus on the causal connection between adverse environmental change and discrete social upheavals, with examples including the ongoing civil war in Syria and the early Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

17/10/2016
Discussion: Hydrocarbons and the Cyprus Problem

Organised by: the Association for Social Reform (OPEK) Cyprus and the Cyprus Technical University

Monday 17 October 2016 starting at 19:30

Venue: Tasos Papadopoulos Building, Amphitheatre 2, Cyprus Technical University - LIMASSOL

THE EVENT WILL BE IN GREEK

12/07/2016
Interview with Ayla Gürel

During the International Seminar-Book Presentation: The Future of Natural Gas: Market and Geopolitics, organised by The International Affairs Institute (IAI) and the OCP Policy Center, Rabat 27.05.16

See interview

04/12/2015
New Project Funded: Journalism in Struggles for Democracy: Media and Polarization in the Middle East

We are happy to announce that the 3-year project ‘Journalism in struggles for democracy: media and polarization in the Middle East’ has received funding from the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO). The aim of this project is to analyze how differences between journalistic interpretive communities affect struggles for democracy, building on Tunisia and Egypt as case studies. Kjetil Selvik at Christian Michelsen Institute is project leader and will collaborate closely with Jacob Høigilt at PRIO. We feel privileged to have Katrin Voltmer, who already leads a related FP7 project, as part of the research team, and look forward to three interesting years of hard work.

Congratulations to all the researchers involved!

24/03/2014
Egypt: Silence Implies Consent

Today’s death sentences of 529 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood must bring an end to the Norwegian Government’s tacit acceptance of the military regime in Egypt.

Malin Nærum Aadalen (2021)
The Effects of Different Types of Sectarian Violence on Trust in State- and Societal Institutions: Evidence from Egypt

Master Thesis

Sultan Barakat, Siri Aas Rustad, Mona Hedaya & Sansom Milton (2021)
اتجاهات النزاعات في العالم العربي

Report - Other

Zenonas Tziarras (2021)
Energy and Sovereignty in the new Geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean

Journal Article in Oxford Energy Forum

Sofie Marianne Gilbert (2021)
Correlates of Sexual Violence in Protest Spaces: Evidence from the Egyptian Revolution

Master Thesis

Zenonas Tziarras & Jalel Harchaoui (2021)
What Erdogan Really wants in the Eastern Mediterranean