With more than 100 million citizens mostly crowded in metropolitan Cairo and along the Nile river, Egypt is near-impossible to govern, as it is persistently plagued with social unrest, economic misery and security forces struggling against terror groups of various Islamist and Jihadists affiliations. Nevertheless, Egyptian President Abd-el Fatah a-Sisi seems to have relatively stabilized the country in difficult times, including in dealing with the implications of the Coronavirus crisis. Is this really the case?
To analyze the situation in Egypt, we are joined from another location in Jerusalem, by Prof. Zeev Khanin, Expert on Russian and Middle Eastern Studies, Bar Ilan and Ariel Universities, and Dr. Haim Koren, Former Israeli Ambassador to Egypt and lecturer at IDC Herzliya. Analyst Amir Oren. Host Jonathan Hessen.
