Egypt in the News on 1 March 2020

It’s a quiet morning in the foreign press: Writing in the Washington Post, Ezzedine Fishere calls last month’s decision to ban public performances of mahraganat part of a “campaign of cultural discipline” that seeks to erase expression that challenges the elite-sanctioned image of Egypt.

The waning of the Egyptian cotton brand and attempts to salvage it: TheNew Yorker takes a trip down memory lane on how a neglected long-fiber cotton plant in Cairo took over the world’s textile industry at some points, how it almost died, and the attempts to resurrect it.