Other coverage of Egypt in the international press worth noting in brief

  • For the nation’s pigeon fanciers — unlike other Egyptians — the birds are not a meal, Reuters reports. “Fanciers carefully breed their birds and often sell young pigeons to traders on a lucrative market.”
  • The Nile Delta might soon be unable to support the population of Egypt, Lily Kuo writes in Quartz.
  • Canada’s federal government apologized and offered compensation to three Canadians who were detained and tortured in Syria, one of whom was also tortured in Egypt, CBC News reports. The New York Times also has an Associated Press pickup of the story.
  • Satire can be used as a tool for political activism but “it is really up to the people to make the change,” Bassem Youssef tells Salon in the umpteenth story about his groundbreaking time as “Egypt’s Jon Stewart.”
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