Financial Risk on the Nile?

Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where he leads the program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States. His work focuses on the comparative political and economic roles of Arab armed forces and nonstate actors, the impact of war on states and societies, and the politics of post-conflict reconstruction and security sector transformation in Arab transitions, and authoritarian resurgence. In mid September, Diwan interviewed Sayigh to ask him about the Egyptian economy, the economic role of the military, and the financial impact of establishing a new administrative capital near Cairo.