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Elissa Miller is a Program Assistant at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. She graduated from Tufts University in 2014 with a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations.
The United States Should Prevent an Egyptian Shift to Russia
Roughly five decades since the Soviet foray into the Middle East vis-à-vis the Czech arms deal with Egypt in September 1955, Russia is reasserting its influence in Egypt. The deal marked the beginning of a brief period that saw Moscow serve as the primary military supplier for a number of regional countries that formed an ‘anti-imperialist front’, such as Egypt, Iraq, and Syria.
