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MOVES- The Four Seasons Nile Plaza, our favorite Downtown haunt, has a new general manager. Dimitrios Zarikos has been named regional vice-president and GM of the Nileside property in Garden City, returning to Cairo for the second time in his career, having earlier opened the Four Seasons Giza. Zarikos, whose most recent posting was in […]
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20 Egyptian Athletes to compete in 2017 Special Olympics in Austria
20 of Egypt’s finest athletes have made it to Austria to compete in the Special OlympicsWorld Winter Games 2017, filling us with joy as they proudly marched down the track at the opening ceremony (please ignore delegation head Hussein Fahmy’s constant photobombs). Egypt will compete in ice and floor hockey against teams from 110 different […]
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Pope Francis, El Sisi trips dominate foreign press coverage of Egypt
Leading the conversation on Egypt in the foreign press this morning are pickups of PopeFrancis’ visit to Egypt and President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s meeting with US President Trump in DC in early April. The Associated Press is trying to hammer in the point that the budding friendship between both heads of state is directly […]
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OpenDemocracy runs trio of stories on research in Egypt during political upheaval
OpenDemocracy has a three-for-one deal on Egypt stories: AUC Sociology Professor Mona Abaza held separate interviews with SOAS Research Fellow Leila Zaki Chakravarti and founder of the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences Karim-Yassin Goessinger about the obstacles researchers face in Egypt, particularly during times of political upheaval. Jack Shenker, meanwhile, writes about how […]
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Other coverage in the international press
Also worth noting in brief: If you have nothing better to do with your day go ahead and read Amr Hamzawy’s 28+ page Carnegie Endowment report on how Egypt’s reality has, since 2013, been characterized “by the success of the new authoritarian approach in closing the public space and pushing out pluralist politics” through law-making. […]
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Egypt transcends Sunni-Shia divide
Strong ties between Saudi Arabia and Egypt are an existential necessity and any “dark clouds” that hover over our the relationship with the Kingdom are only temporary, Samy Abdel Aziz writes for state-owned Al-Ahram. Abdel Aziz points to the laundry list of instances where each of the countries provided the other with assistance (financial and […]
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Five stories worth reading this morning
We humbly offer you not one, not two, but five stories from which to choose this morning, depending on your mood and attitude toward life: For the paranoid: “Technology: China reboots its superpower ambitions” is the Financial Times’ Big Read this morning, noting that “As Beijing pushes to be self-sufficient in tech by 2025, rivals […]
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Bassem Youssef on Colbert, Samantha Bee
Bassem makes the rounds promoting his new film: Bassem Youssef made the rounds on American late-night talk shows last week promoting his new book Revolution for Dummies and the documentary Tickling Giants. He went on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and said if US President Donald Trump were running for office in the Middle […]
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Trump needs to support El Sisi to re-establish a stable, prosperous future -Shahin
US President Donald Trump’s intent on bringing stability to the Middle East should be a reminder of the need to support President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s “efforts towards reestablishing a stable and prosperous future” in Egypt, Magda Shahin writes in AUC’s The Cairo Review of Global Affairs’ Tahrir Forum blog. Shahin says early signals show […]