{"id":570465,"date":"2020-04-01T04:26:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T04:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/04\/01\/egypt-in-the-news-on-1-april-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-04-01T04:26:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T04:26:33","slug":"egypt-in-the-news-on-1-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/04\/01\/egypt-in-the-news-on-1-april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt in the News on 1 April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No single story is dominating the conversation on Egypt this morning. <\/strong>Industry rag <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/03\/31\/egypt-us-military-aid-middle-east-trump-sisi-congress-death-mustafa-kassem-american-citizen-detained\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a> claims that the US is considering trimming back military assistance to Egypt at the behest of lawmakers, while the country\u2019s response to covid-19 are the subject of op-eds in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/mar\/31\/egypt-coronavirus-transparency-sisi-crackdown\">the Guardian<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/03\/egyptian-superstitions-jokes-on-coronavirus.html\">Al Monitor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distractions: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/29\/world\/middleeast\/egypt-circuses-lions-women.html?searchResultPosition=1\">The New York Times<\/a> features six Egyptian female lion tamers (five of whom are related) while the BBC has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/story\/20200329-bahariya-and-farafra-egypts-bizarre-desert-landscape\">photo essay<\/a> on Bahariya and Farafra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No single story is dominating the conversation on Egypt this morning. 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