Other international coverage

Also worth a quick skim this morning:

• 2017 was a bad year for the LGBT community in Egypt, but 2018 “could be even worse,”Alyssa Bernstein writes for Foreign Policy.
• Although the gains Egyptian women made in 2017 were notable, women need more laws ensuring their rights, Hagar Hosny writes for Al-Monitor.
• Egypt’s role as a US ally is not to be belittled, ambassador to the US Yasser Reda writes in a rebuke to an Op-Ed in the NYT from a couple of weeks ago.
• A child passed away from an accident in a Hurghada pool, according to BBC. Her death came five days after she was flown home to England.
• Calls for a boycott on US pharmaceutical products in response to the Jerusalem decision might be a little premature, Ahmed Gomaa writes for Al Monitor.
• Syrian champion wrestler Amir Awad opened a refugee sports center in Alexandria to train a new generation of competitors, Rima Cherri and Houssam Hariri write for UNHCR.
• Declan Walsh reviews Cairo’s active roller derby team, Cairollers, for the New York Times.