Bread protest tops international coverage on Egypt

Still topping international coverage are the bread protests that broke out in Alexandria, Kafr El Sheikh, Minya, Assiut, Giza, and Fayoum on Monday. Tarek El Tablawy says the government defended the move in his piece for Bloomberg. Ruth Michaelson added more substance in The Guardian by noting that “while the cuts are unlikely to have a dramatic affect [sic] on the bread rations of the average citizen, the suggestion struck a nerve among the Egyptian public,” as TIMEP’s Timothy Kaldas tells her the government’s problem was one of communication; “the problem is that they offered no information and then left people to make their own conclusions.”