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Stephan Roll

Head of the Africa and Middle East research division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

More than Window-Dressing: On the Credibility of Public Statistics from Al-Sisi’s Egypt Salima Batsi, Stephan Roll · January 2022 Official Egyptian social and economic data do not provide a reliable picture of the reality of life within the country due to numerous irregularities—nevertheless they are mostly uncritically adopted by external actors.
Egypt has so far fared extremely well in the Covid 19 pandemic—at least (…)