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Poverty is rising in Egypt and economic policies have done little to improve the lives of ordinary Egyptians, Edmund Bower writes for The Independent. “The increase of prices across the country has meant that Egyptians who were once just about getting by are now slipping deeper into poverty.” Bower says that despite rising poverty rates […]

There could be unforeseen obstacles for Israel as a result of Egypt’s handover of the Tiran and Sanafir islands to Saudi Arabia, Zvi Mazel writes for The Jerusalem Post. Mazel cites concerns over how the Multinational Force of Observers will continue to oversee the islands as part of the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. […]

Egypt has inadvertently been disrupting cellular coverage in Israel for two weeks as the military uses cyber warfare against Daesh in Sinai, The Jerusalem Post reports. An unidentified Egyptian official tells Reuters that Egypt had not intended to jam Israeli networks but confirmed that “obviously, we want to stop the terrorists from communicating.” The AP, […]

Also worth a quick skim: The increasing cases of torture in Egypt are not always politically motivated, Khaled Hassan writes for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Reporters Without Borders condemned “the disproportionality” of photojournalist Mohammed Abu Zeid’s death sentence to his crime of covering a protest. Up to 10 Coptic Christian asylum seekers in […]