How could arbitral awards be enforced?
As a general rule, arbitral awards enjoy the authority of res judicata and could be forcibly executed against the loosing party after obtaining an enforcement order (exequatur) from the competent national court where the enforcement of the award is sought. In case of foreign arbitral awards, the New York Convention of 1958 for the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, which is ratified by many countries including Egypt, facilitates the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards whose enforcement is sought in a country other than the one where they were rendered.
