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Topping coverage of Egypt this morning is the upcoming visit by Pope Francisto Egypt and his policy of promoting interfaith dialogue and thawing relations with Al Azhar.

The new administrative capital project “is part nationalist symbol, part desert reclamation project, and part suburban fantasyland,” Ursula Lindsey writes in Places Journal. She says the project “serves a rhetorical purpose. The government and media can talk about this chimera rather than what is really happening on the streets of Egypt. They can act like […]

Egypt is stepping up the charm offensive on returning to the Nile Basin Initiative, with diplomatic sources which attended last week’s NBI Ministerial Committee talks in Khartoum telling Al Monitor that Egypt’s delegation had stressed the possibility of Egypt reactivating its NBI membership and putting aside differences. The Egyptian delegation appeared open to restarting talks […]

Chinese investors dominate the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) so far, Chairman Ahmed Darwish tells Xinhua in an interview lauding the TEDA Industrial Zone in Ain Sokhna. TEDA completed the first phase of the 7.23 sq km zone, with 68 companies including fiberglass company Jushi, he says.

The BBC World Service’s Rex Bloomstein recorded a documentary with musicians from around the world who are being persecuted for “raising their voices against political, cultural or religious repression” for a radio documentary. He talks to artists whose songs have led to their imprisonment, torture and to the continuing threat of violence. Among those interviewed […]

Egypt’s strategy in Sinai is being explored in the foreign press over the weekend, with the usual alarmist tinge coloring the conversation. First off is Human Rights Watch, which ran a report which alleges that security forces may have arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared men in Sinai and then staged a counter-terrorism raids to cover […]

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 […]