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Stronger Egyptian-Iranian ties could undermine US foreign policy: US failure to help contain the dispute between Egypt and Saudi Arabia could jeopardize American efforts to contain Iran, as Egypt looks more reticent to fully normalize relations with Iran, Haisam Hassanein writes for the Hill. He argues that Egypt’s fear of Sunni Islamism, Egypt’s desire to […]

Heir to Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdy, Osama Fahmy, filed a court appeal to the 2015 decision that said they lost the rights to the song “Khosara,” which was used in Jay Z’s “Big Pimpin’,” by licensing it, The Hollywood Reporter says. Fahmy’s attorney says “his client may have licensed the economic rights to ‘Khosara’ but, […]

North Korea has allowed the growing use of mobile phones and domestic internet access in return for detailed information the network feeds the state’s surveillance operations, a US government-funded report says. "By giving citizens new networked technologies like mobile phones and tablets, the government is able to automatically censor unsanctioned content and observe everything citizens […]

Other international coverage of Egypt worth noting in brief: Reuters’ Nadine Awadalla took note of the news of researchers at Nile University who are developing ways to turn dried shrimp shells into biodegradable plastic. We first covered this last month from The Week. Reuters also covered a shootout between Egypt’s police force and suspected terrorists […]