Dear Egyptian media: Don’t overplay Sisi’s visit to Washington

Dear Egyptian media: Don’t overplay Sisi’s visit to Washington. While President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s trip to the White House is certainly an important political step for Egypt — particularly considering the tension in our ties with the US since 2013 — there is no need to go overboard and make an international laughing stock of our media, Al Shorouk’s editor-in-chief Emad El Din Hussein writes. Hussein implores Egyptians to remember that Trump is already turning into a lame duck just two months into his presidency, and that we therefore shouldn’t “put all our eggs into the Trump basket.”