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Alternative Energy in the Middle East

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With more than 90 million people, Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East and the Arab world. The country’s millennium-long history and its cultural dominance have given the Egyptians a strong justification to claim regional leadership. These claims aside, certainly, political and socio-economic developments in Cairo are always echoed in neighbouring countries and impact them positively or negatively. Energy is not an exception.

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    Gawdat Bahgat (Professor)

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Bahgat, G. (2013). Egypt. In: Alternative Energy in the Middle East. Energy, Climate and the Environment Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137264589_3

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