Boosted by the Pandemic? State Capacity in the Middle East: Insights from Egypt

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Brief Overview

The state in the Middle East was approached for long using the ‘state-in-society’ approach. The pandemic seemed to usher in a ‘state-over-society’ era. Reference to the Egyptian experience, we will trace the change in state-society relations.

Authors

• Hebatullah Selim, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University

• Hisham Soliman, Zayed University