{"id":651214,"date":"2017-02-07T04:12:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T04:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/02\/07\/egypt-in-the-news-on-7-february-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-02-07T04:12:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T04:12:54","slug":"egypt-in-the-news-on-7-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/02\/07\/egypt-in-the-news-on-7-february-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt in the News on 7 February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"content-anchor\" id=\"tldr-story-07\"><\/a> <strong>It\u2019s a big morning for Egypt in the international press. <\/strong>Football remains the dominant story by sheer volume of pieces, with one of the more significant piece in that vein being the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/38885621\">BBC<\/a>\u2019s report that the Egyptian Football Association isn\u2019t planning on kicking head coach H\u00e9ctor C\u00faper to the curb for failing to bring home the African Cup. Instead, it\u2019s looking ahead to the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the BCC, Orla Guerin reports from Cairo that <strong>the \u201c<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-38878679\"><strong>Trump era heralds a warming of <\/strong><strong>US-Egypt ties<\/strong><\/a><strong>.\u201d<\/strong> The lengthy piece notes that \u201cEgypt's hardline leader, and his supporters, are on the Trump train. Now President Sisi is looking forward to a reset in relations, and a visit to the White House - which the Obama administration denied him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nobody in \u201cGreater Sudan\u201d <\/strong>(hold the hate mail, please, we\u2019re joking) <strong>is terribly pleased with us today. <\/strong>The South Sudanese <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2017\/02\/05\/south-sudan-rebels-accuse-egypt-of-carrying-out-bombing-raids-against-their-positions\/\">claim we\u2019re bombing them<\/a>. The Sudanese are <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2017\/01\/31\/is-egypt-in-the-midst-of-its-own-little-trade-war-with-sudan\/\">edging us toward a trade war<\/a>. And now <strong>geriatric Sudanese leader Omar Al-Bashir is lashing out at Cairo, lumping us with Iran<\/strong> as he \u201caccused Egyptian intelligence of supporting Sudan's opposition forces, and vowed to take a border dispute between the two neighbors to the United Nations Security Council if negotiations fail.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/sudanese-president-accuses-egypt-supporting-opponents-091842342.html\">Associated Press\u2019 report<\/a> \u2014 triggered by Al-Bashir\u2019s demand that we give Halayeb to Sudan \u2014 is getting wide pickup around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Cairo and Khartoum are getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2017\/02\/05\/5-feb-17-world-view-egypt-accused-dirty-deal-sabotage-ethiopian-dam-project\/\"><strong>plenty of ink in Breitbart<\/strong><\/a>, the right-wing news outlet close to the Trump administration. The site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/jerusalem\/2017\/02\/06\/egypt-court-sentence-man-death-murdering-christian-alcohol-retailer\/\">is also covering<\/a> (dateline: Israel \u2014 begad) the apparent sentencing to death of a man accused of murdering a Christian alcohol seller last month.<\/p>\n<p>Over in the Washington Post, foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius picks up on a <a href=\"http:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/2017\/02\/01\/arab-fractures-citizens-states-and-social-contracts-pub-66612\">Carnegie report<\/a> we noted last week to argue in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/wp\/2017\/02\/06\/a-look-at-the-arab-spring-six-years-later\/?utm_term=.9bf5068d24c1\">A look at the Arab Spring, six years later<\/a>\u201d that <strong>we\u2019re facing a region-wide crisis in governance, that our biggest problems are authoritarianism and corruption, et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseum.<\/strong> Uncharacteristically, the best part of the piece is from the comments, where the reader FarTraveler notes as a visitor to Cairo that \u201c<strong>things are rarely as simple as columnists or commenters want to imagine<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/06\/books\/review\/generation-revolution-rachel-aspden.html?_r=0\">New York Times<\/a>, author and Century Foundation fellow Thanassis Cambanis is given plenty of space for a review of Rachel Aspden\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Generation-Revolution-Between-Tradition-Change-ebook\/dp\/B01G0GBFNS\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=\">Generation Revolution<\/a>,\u201d a lengthy excerpt of which appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2016\/jun\/02\/generation-revolution-egypt-military-state-youth\">the Guardian<\/a> last July when the book was first published in the UK. The bottom line is all you need to know in deciding whether to buy a copy: \u201c<strong>So what did happen to Egypt\u2019s revolution?<\/strong> Aspden, like most of its chroniclers, was rooting for it to succeed. Yet it failed, she says, not only because the police state adapted so efficaciously but also because the people who sparked the revolt ultimately remained faithful to too many reactionary ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some tourism experts remain pessimistic about Egypt\u2019s tourism<\/strong>, saying that the return of the Russians may not be enough to revive the ailing sector, Menna Farouk writes for <a href=\"http:\/\/al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2017\/02\/russia-consulate-open-hurghada-egypt-boost-tourism.html\">Al Monitor<\/a>. Expect no trenchant sector analysis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rumors that the Tourism Ministry rejected a request from British band Coldplay<\/strong> to perform in Egypt are \u201cbaseless,\u201d a spokeswoman from the ministry said, adding that the ministry had received no such request, <a href=\"http:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/en\/media\/2017\/02\/06\/Egypt-ministry-denies-blocking-Coldplay-concert-.html\">Al Arabiya<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The legal crackdown on FGM has pushed the practice further underground, while also medicalizing it<\/strong>, as parents who want their daughters to undergo the surgery are likely to believe a doctor is the \u201csafe option,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/06\/africa\/africa-view-egypt-fgm\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>\u2019s Sophie Morlin-Yron writes. Many doctors are charging parents heftily \u2014 to the point where some parents forego anaesthetics because they can\u2019t afford it \u2014 and often carry out the procedure late at night to avoid being caught.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving rather late to the party and with nothing in hand but a single source, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/egypt-increases-food-prices-second-time-three-months-1814861743\">Middle East Eye<\/a> says the latest <strong>price hikes on subsidized goods are adversely affecting welfare recipients<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a big morning for Egypt in the international press. Football remains the dominant story by sheer volume of pieces, with one of the more significant piece in that vein being the BBC\u2019s report that the Egyptian Football Association isn\u2019t planning on kicking head coach H\u00e9ctor C\u00faper to the curb for failing to bring home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7233],"tags":[2386,72],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-651214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-egypt-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"75d4c7df-76bc-447c-8f88-461594ebae53","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[651198],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Egypt in the News on 7 February 2017 - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/02\/07\/egypt-in-the-news-on-7-february-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Egypt in the News on 7 February 2017\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s a big morning for Egypt in the international press. 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Trump looks like he\u2019s going to be great friends with President Abdelfattah El Sisi since he seems \u201cfine with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;EGYPT IN THE NEWS&quot;","block_context":{"text":"EGYPT IN THE NEWS","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/category\/egypt-in-the-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/internal\/536550.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":651329,"url":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/02\/09\/the-trump-era-heralds-a-new-egyptian-american-lovefest\/","url_meta":{"origin":651214,"position":5},"title":"The Trump era heralds a new Egyptian-American lovefest","author":"enterpriseam admin","date":"9 February 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Trump era heralds a new Egyptian-American lovefest. That\u2019s the dominant narrative on Egypt this morning as the notion (which we first noted early this week) got wide international play thanks to a piece by Reuters\u2019 Lin Noueihed and Yara Bayoumy. The two report that analysts believe that Trump is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;EGYPT IN THE NEWS&quot;","block_context":{"text":"EGYPT IN THE NEWS","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/category\/egypt-in-the-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/internal\/536550.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651214\/revisions"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue\/651198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651214"},{"taxonomy":"brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand?post=651214"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=651214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}