Egypt in the News on Thursday, 4 May 2017

On a slow news morning for Egypt in the international media, the award for the most facile and trite piece on Egypt goes to Mr Philip Jenkins, who writes for The American Conservative saying the terrorist attacks in Egypt “plausibly could succeed in splitting Egyptian elites and causing significant defections… In the worst-case scenario, such a process runs the risk of bringing Egypt to conditions that we more commonly associate with Iraq, which would pose catastrophic dangers.” He says the US “should be prepared for sudden and perhaps lurching transformations” in Egypt.