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It\u2019s a quiet morning in the foreign press:<\/strong> Writing in the Washington Post<\/a>, Ezzedine Fishere calls last month\u2019s decision<\/a> to ban public performances of mahraganat part of a \u201ccampaign of cultural discipline\u201d that seeks to erase expression that challenges the elite-sanctioned image of Egypt.<\/p>\n

The waning of the Egyptian cotton brand and attempts to salvage it:<\/strong> The<\/a>New Yorker<\/a> takes a trip down memory lane on how a neglected long-fiber cotton plant in Cairo took over the world\u2019s textile industry at some points, how it almost died, and the attempts to resurrect it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a quiet morning in the foreign press: Writing in the Washington Post, Ezzedine Fishere calls last month\u2019s decision to ban public performances of mahraganat part of a \u201ccampaign of cultural discipline\u201d that seeks to erase expression that challenges the elite-sanctioned image of Egypt. 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