DOCUMENTARIES A GRATIS GLOBAL SERVICE
⌕ SEARCH GRATIS GLOBAL ↗
DOCUMENTARIES
Egypt's Lost Power
SOURCE: YOUTUBE · NO TRACKING UNTIL YOU PRESS PLAY · TROUBLE PLAYING? WATCH AT THE SOURCE ↗

Egypt's Lost Power

48 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
RATE THIS

Egypt's energy crisis becomes a case study in who profits from a country's resources, as Al Jazeera investigative journalist Clayton Swisher traces a chain of gas deals stretching from Hosni Mubarak's inner circle to a former Israeli intelligence officer. The film lays out how Egypt, once an oil supplier to its neighbors, ended up buying gas from Israel at the very moment Israel was tapping some of the largest offshore fields found this century, and how President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi struck a quiet supply deal to plug the shortfall. Swisher goes back to the 1967 war, when Israel seized the Sinai's oilfields, and to the Camp David and Oslo accords, which built energy sharing into their peace terms without much public discussion. Interviews and documents track regular, low-profile contacts between Egyptian and Israeli military and intelligence officials that grew out of those agreements. The throughline is money: contracts negotiated behind closed doors that enriched a small circle of insiders while, the film argues, costing ordinary Egyptians billions in lost revenue.