{"id":631287,"date":"2018-03-14T04:17:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T04:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/03\/14\/egypt-in-the-news-on-14-march-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-03-14T04:17:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T04:17:34","slug":"egypt-in-the-news-on-14-march-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/03\/14\/egypt-in-the-news-on-14-march-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt in the News on 14 March 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s another morning of slim pickings in the foreign press<\/strong>, with no single issue dominating the conversation on Egypt.<\/p>\n

Security forces are still struggling to contain the insurgency in Sinai despite \u201cwidespread public support,\u201d<\/strong> Reuters says<\/a>. The newswire points to last December\u2019s attempted attack against Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar and Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi as \u201ca reminder that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, expected to easily win re-election this month, is still engaged in a major military campaign to deliver the security he has promised to Egyptians.\u201d Nevertheless, El Sisi\u2019s supporters argue that the security situation is currently better than it was in the immediate wake of the 2011 revolution.<\/p>\n

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman\u2019s pet project, NEOM, is seen by Egypt as \u201ca new space for more cooperation<\/strong>, for creating more Egyptian employment,\u201d Ben Gurion University Egypt specialist Yoram Meital tells JPost<\/a>. Brandon Friedman says the project aims to \u201ccreate a more integrated relationship among Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia\u201d but that \u201csome of the sectors planned for the mega-project coincide with areas of Israeli expertise: energy and water, biotechnology, advanced manufacturing, and technological and digital sciences.\u201d There is potentially a role for Israeli economic integration too, Friedman suggests, \u201cdepending on how the project evolves and how Saudi relations with Israel evolve.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a> Watch the World Cup on an Israeli channel with Arabic commentary: <\/strong>Israel\u2019s Broadcasting Authority has obtained the rights to broadcast the 2018 World Cup with Arabic-speaking commentators, Telecompaper reports<\/a>. The matches will be available to viewers in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, West Bank free of charge on the Israeli channel over satellite. The news comes as Egypt has announced its full schedule for World Cup warmup matches<\/strong>, which will include friendlies with Belgium, Colombia, Kuwait, Portugal, and Greece, the Associated Press reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Egypt could be having its own #MeToo moment<\/strong>, Mona Eltahawy writes for the New York Times<\/a>. Eltahawy cites a couple of high-profile cases in which men accused of [redacted] misconduct were forced to step down as well as the case, caught on video, of a woman who fought back against a man who groped her in the street.<\/p>\n

Also worth noting in brief:<\/p>\n