Atlantic takes a critical look at Egypt’s contract with

Egypt’s USD 1.2 mn contract with the New York City-based PR firm Weber Shandwick is raising some red flags about Cairo and D.C’s warming ties, Avi Asher-Schapiro writes in The Atlantic. The campaign, Egypt Forward, is meant to emphasize the importance of the Egypt’s s role in the Middle East as the champion of counter terror and highlight the strategic nature of its partnership with the US.“Weber’s contract with the Egyptians is not, in itself, unconventional,” Asher-Schapiro says. It’s rather the firm’s decision to do business with a foreign-intelligence service with a stained human rights record. Not only are there concerns about spending of US taxpayers’ revenues, but critics of the agreement have spotted factual mistakes in Weber’s campaign.