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Hafsa Halawa: Egypt's Economic Turmoil 

Babel: Translating the Middle East

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Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine 15 months ago, Egypt's economy has been under renewed stress. Are conditions in Egypt building up to an inflection point? And what would that mean for the Middle East and the rest of the world? To help us understand I speak with Hafsah Al-Awa, an independent consultant and a non-resident scholar at Washington's Middle East Institute. Later I continue the conversation with my colleagues Will Toddman and Lubna Youssef discussing shifting Gulf Egypt dynamics and U.S. views.

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