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The passing of high-profile writer and feminist icon Nawal El Saadawi leads the conversation on Egypt this morning<\/strong> (as we note in What We\u2019re Tracking Today, above). In the runner-up spot: coverage of our latest vaccine shipment from China. The Associated Press<\/a> and Reuters<\/a> are running with news of the 300k-dose shipment of vaccine from Sinopharm that we received over the weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also making headlines: <\/strong>Yet another piece looking at the colonial roots of tensions over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (The Conversation<\/a>) and a look at desert megacities in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (Haaretz<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The passing of high-profile writer and feminist icon Nawal El Saadawi leads the conversation on Egypt this morning (as we note in What We\u2019re Tracking Today, above). In the runner-up spot: coverage of our latest vaccine shipment from China. 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