Epstein Secrets

ni Land, because it had oil to buy off all the contradictions. Ditto Saudi Arabia. Egypt and Tunisia have very little oil, and both need loans from the International Monetary Fund. In order to secure those loans, their rising Islamist politicians are going to have to cut subsidies and raise taxes. But they are used to giving

pular revolution and a military coup." "Egypt is in the surgery room at the moment, and in surgery you see ugly things," said Sadek, who teaches at the American University in Cairo. He didn't rule out the possibility that the SCAF would try to find some pretext to postpone the presidential vote or overrule the results

ries especially in Egypt and Algeria, while none of the Gulf countries reportedly shares the same problem. Moreover, according to estimates from the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook (IMF 2002), average unemployment rates across the Mediterranean countries exceed those of the Gulf countries. However, trends

tes: Development of science and technology indicators. Chapter 4 in: Economic Trends in MENA Region 2002. Cairo, Egypt: Economic Research Forum and the American University in Cairo. Rasiah, R. 2002. TRIPs and capability building in developing economies. Discussion Paper No.l. Tokyo, Japan: UNU-INTECH. UNDP (United Na

force that the "international community" has been unwilling to take is ostracizing Iran from international organizations, such as the U.N. and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This needs to change. Iran's participation in these organizations undermines their foundational principles. The U.N. Charter provides that

y chiefs who served in powerful posts under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak may have been willing to step down, said Zeinab Abul-Magd, a historian at the American University in Cairo who has studied the military and has discussed the situation with several mid-level officers over the past two days. "There was a lot of