Scrawled Shortcuts through the Research Maze
Read about Drew’s first Wallerstein Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Saad Eddin Ibrahim. *“*Egypt’s leading public intellectual, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, risked everything to reform Hosni Mubarak’s antidemocratic regime.” http://www.drewmagazine.com/2009/12/dissident-in-exile/
New York Times Archives
Ibrahim is even a news “topic” in the NYTimes archives: http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/i/saad_eddin_ibrahim/index.html
Stateman’s Yearbook 2011
Did you know that in 2004, 78% of Egyptians were under 40? Or that the Egyptian constitution was only amended to allow multicandidate Presidential elections in 2004?
Ref Counter JA 51.S7 2011
Europa World Book 2010
A concise, comprehensive history of Egypt, with post-2005 history & economics, plus statistics---who knew Egypt was a major marble and sugarcane source?
Ref Counter JN 1. E85 2010
Constitution Finder
Want to know for yourself what’s in the Egyptian Constitution? Find it here:
http://confinder.richmond.edu.ezproxy.drew.edu/
CIA World Factbook---Egypt
Updated weekly, this intelligence community standard gives just the facts:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/eg.html
United Nations Human Rights documents for Egypt
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/countries/MENARegion/Pages/EGIndex.aspx
The 2010 Freedom of the World
Listed Egypt as Not Free with a total 5.5 ranking. Other countries with that rating include: Algeria, Angola, Congo, Iraq, Russia, Rwanda, Yemen and more.
Ref 323.405 F853f & http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=15
Ethnic News Watch
Get the take of specialized, non-mainstream sources on the Egyptian news!
Online under “Electronic Resources by Title”