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Monday, 30 May 2016

Egyptian rights activists banned from travel

With national holidays in the U.S. and the U.K., the international press is largely leaving Egypt alone today, with coverage focused largely on the ongoing investigation into the crash of EgytpAir Flight 804. President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s pressure on the UN to step-up to the plate on Israeli-Palestinian peace is getting limited traction on the holiday weekend, and Reuters noted that an Egyptian human rights activist faces a travel ban as a result of the NGO funding case. Meanwhile, the SIS can’t help by take a swipe at the Guardian after the newspaper pulled stories written by a freelance contributor long-suspected by Cairo journalists of making stuff up.

Meanwhile, Egypt has the lead role in the New York Times’ “Middle Eastern Writers Find Refuge in the Dystopian Novel,” which leads with the genesis story of the debut novel of the psychiatrist Basma Abdel Aziz photographed — where else? — in Brooklyn.

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