Other coverage of Egypt in the news
Other coverage of Egypt in the international press worth noting in brief:
- Farid Farid asks if Gamal Mubarak is eying Egypt’s presidency in an article for the Sydney Morning Herald. “Mubarak has shown up at a wedding, a funeral and a soccer match, happily snapping selfies with onlookers still enamoured of the flamboyant figure groomed to succeed his father.”
- Egyptian women are “pushing gender boundaries” and “entering into traditionally male-dominated jobs,” according to a report in Africa News.
- Ahmed Mustafa says the Ikhwan are the “root ideology for all militant and terrorist groups” in a piece for Gulf News.
- “Egyptian economists and businessmen are finally giving off an air of optimism these days after witnessing a state of instability and skepticism,” according to Middle East Observer.
- Egypt is not the same place it used to be three years ago, and its freedoms and economy alike are being “abused,” Bassem Youssef tells a Huffington Post contributor who decided to describe the comedian’s eyes as “hauntingly intense.”
- Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt are growing into global hubs for social impact start-ups, helped in part by an influx of foreign funding which plugging the “gap” left by the banking system, writes Zouhour Ben Hamdi for Econo Times.