Timothy E. Kaldas

What's the outlook for Egypt in politics, the economy, and foreign affairs in 2026? Join us tomorrow @ 10 AM EST for an online event featuring @selhussieny.bsky.social, @nancyokail.bsky.social, and @tekaldas.bsky.social.

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Egypt in 2026: What’s Next? January marked the conclusion of Egypt’s longest House of Representatives elections in modern history. Conducted amid low voter turnout, widespread allegations of irregularities, and unprecedented leg...

TODAY: 16:00 Brussels, 17:00 Cairo, 10:00 Washington

I'm joining @selhussieny.bsky.social, @nancyokail.bsky.social & @maitelsadany.bsky.social to discuss what's ahead in 2026 for Egypt given domestic, regional & global challenges, looking at political & economic conditions.
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TOMORROW‼️Join @nancyokail.bsky.social, @maitelsadany.bsky.social, @tekaldas.bsky.social and @selhussieny.bsky.social for an online discussion addressing the top political, economic, and foreign policy issues on Egypt's agenda in 2026.
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Yesterday marked 15 years since Egypt's uprising & tomorrow I'll join a brilliant panel hosted by @timep.bsky.social to discuss what's ahead for Egypt amidst many domestic political & economic challenges as well as regional & global turbulence. Register & learn more here timep.org/2026/01/21/e...

🔔 Join us on January 27, at 10 AM ET for an online event exploring the top foreign affairs, economic, and political issues facing Egypt, with @selhussieny.bsky.social, @nancyokail.bsky.social, @tekaldas.bsky.social, moderated by @maitelsadany.bsky.social.

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Egypt in 2026: What’s Next? January marked the conclusion of Egypt’s longest House of Representatives elections in modern history. Conducted amid low voter turnout, widespread allegations of irregularities, and unprecedented leg...

Don't miss @selhussieny.bsky.social, @nancyokail.bsky.social, and @tekaldas.bsky.social as they come together to address the top political, economic, and foreign policy issues on Egypt's agenda in 2026.

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Help Us Bring Bassem Sabry's Vision to Life By Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy

⭐ On this last day of 2025, I hope you'll join @timep.bsky.social in ensuring that the MENA region's young leaders have the support they need to be able to make lasting policy change.

Follow this🧵to learn more about our Bassem Sabry Fellowship that does just that: givebutter.com/bassemsabry.

Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the 2020 Beirut port blast in his first foreign trip Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the 2020 port blast in Beirut that killed over 200 people during his first foreign visit as pope.

Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the 2020 Beirut port blast in his first foreign trip.

A visit to southern Lebanon is not on the agenda, however.

apnews.com/article/pope...

While Disney said its decision to return Kimmel to the air came after “having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy,” millions of subscribers canceling in protest undoubtedly weighed on executives’ minds. Showing once again that caving to Trump comes at a steep cost

China has reason to call Trump’s bluff on tariffs.

“.. exports from the world's second-largest economy have grown 7.1% to 19.95 trillion yuan ($2.80 trillion) in the first nine months of this year, despite a significant drop in goods heading to the United States.”

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Like much else from the history of Egypt's revolution, the story of Maspero continues to be contested as Egypt's leaders work to erase their crimes from public record and public memory. But videos of armored vehicles deliberately plowing through unarmed crowds cannot easily be forgotten.

A Marginalized Memory in Egypt: Remembering the Maspero Massacre from the Coptic Hospital Fourteen years ago, on October 9, 2011, Egyptian security forces violently attacked protesters in Maspero, killing 28 and injuring hundreds. There was one demand from the protesters and their loved on...

Here @amyfallas.bsky.social captures the tensions, fears, struggles & debates witnessed in the Coptic Hospital that night. Families brought loved ones for treatment, seeking medical care as much as refuge from the violent sectarianism they found outside the hospital walls timep.org/2025/10/15/a...

Maspero was a formative experience for Egypt's Christians.

It showed that the military they served in was ready kill them. It showed that even after Mubarak's fall, State TV remained a sectarian mouthpiece of power, as an anchor dangerously told citizens to "protect" the military from Christians.

I will never forget the dread & horror I felt that day, living in Cairo and seeing Egypt's military had massacred peaceful Coptic Christian protestors by firing on them & trampling them with armored vehicles. The mangled bodies were horrifying, as was the sectarian incitement that followed 🧵

بعد خمس سنوات من تفجير مرفأ بيروت، لا تزال عائلات الضحايا تناضل في سبيل العدالة وتخليد الذكرى.

في مقابلة مع معهد التحرير، تخبرنا تانيا ضو علم قصة نضالها في سبيل تحقيق العدالة والمساءلة عن التفجير الذي نجت منه و فقدت فيه شريك حياتها.

لقراءة القصة: timep.org/post-arabic/...

ملف قضية: في عام 2022، رفع 9 من ضحايا تفجير مرفأ بيروت دعوى في الولايات المتحدة ضد الشركة المسئولة عن استقدام الباخرة المحملة بنترات الأمونيوم المتسببة في الانفجار، مطالبين بتعويضات تقدر بـ250 مليون دولار.

يمكنكم التعرف على تفاصيل القضية، وأهميتها، هنا: timep.org/post-arabic/...

Not even pretending it’s about antisemitism anymore

"In the aftermath of bombings, the Israeli army routinely fires on Palestinian rescue workers, paramedics, and other civilians to prevent them from saving the wounded, an investigation reveals."

Indefensible.

I hope Suresh Naidu is wrong, but I’m pretty sure he’s right—Columbia’s settlement with Trump is unlikely to stick: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

بقلق بالغ، نتابع في معهد التحرير أحداث العنف المروّعة في محافظة السويداء السورية، والتي أسفرت عن سقوط ضحايا من المدنيين، وتهجير للسكان، وزيادة الاحتقان الطائفي في لحظة حرجة من تاريخ البلاد.

أولاً، وقبل كل شيء، نعرب عن تضامننا الكامل مع الضحايا، وذويهم، وكل من تأثر بهذه الأحداث.

Lebanon finally passed a law lifting bank secrecy; a critical step for addressing Lebanon's banking crisis & restructuring the sector to allow for economic recovery. TIMEP Senior Inclusive Economies Associate, Ali Noureddeen, details the importance of this reform & what needs to happen next.

It's unclear from this article if this aid is meant to run through the GHF which has been killing Palestinians at aid centers on a daily basis by deliberately firing into crowds that pose no threat to soldiers. This came from testimony from both Palestinians and Israeli soldiers themselves.

Harrowing update on the seemingly endless stream of atrocities being uncovered around Saydnaya and the Assad regime. The challenges that Syria faces today are real and substantial, but the world is a better place now that this regime has been toppled.

Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Here in North Carolina, we have a statute, section 15a-401 of the NC Code, that requires police officers to identify themselves when making an arrest or during the functional equivalent of an arrest. There's no equivalent federal law, but there needs to be. Might be something for Democrats to push.

Unfortunately few people have ever wanted to pay for hard news and investigations, which have always been subsidized by ads, cartoons, crosswords, Wordle, recipe apps, paid events, etc., and can mostly only be undertaken by newsrooms. Readers of indy Substacks are paying for takes

Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.

Israel's reported plan to intensify assault, displacement, and destruction in #Gaza would amount to an abhorrent escalation of crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and acts of genocide.

States should urgently act to prevent further mass atrocities.

www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

@michaelkofman.bsky.social a month ago 'its v difficult to see how the price of oil will be dramatically lowered to a price that will prove cataclysmic for Russia, which has to be around $45 per barrel or less".
Well..Trump's ignorance delivers.

If Kristi Noem can go down to El Salvador and take concentration camp selfies, then DOJ can figure out where Abrego Garcia is.

Just start jailing people for contempt of court until they find out.

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يشارك معهد التحرير في اجتماعات الربيع لصندوق النقد الدولي والبنك الدولي من خلال حلقتين نقاشيتين عن إعادة البناء في لبنان وسوريا، وعن إصلاح نهج الصندوق تجاه التقسيم الجندري للعمل. لمتابعة الفعاليات (حضوريًا أو عبر الإنترنت) ندعوكم إلى التسجيل قبل 11 أبريل.

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