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Thursday, 20 April 2017

Other coverage of Egypt in the international media

Other coverage worth noting in brief:

  • Armed Forces Chief of Staff Mahmoud Hegazy has traveled to London with other officials, according to Middle East Monitor. The reasons behind the visit are unknown and the publication says it is the second visit by an Egyptian military official to London in two months.
  • Legislative amendments proposed following Palm Sunday’s attacks “would pose an even greater threat to civil liberties by weakening the few remaining protections in the criminal justice system,” Amnesty International’s North Africa campaigns director says.
  • Al Arabiya profiled Egyptian travel blogger Yara Yehia, who “promotes a list of destinations where travelers can find luxury for less.”
  • Arab women are becoming more and more reliant on the internet as their go-to source for fashion, online fashion new site Fustany, Amira Azzouz, tells Wamda.
  • The discovery of a tomb and ancient statues in Luxor comes with the hope that it could revive Egypt’s floundering tourist industry, Euronews reports.
  • Egyptian film “Clash” is “a rather amazing new-wave-style drama that combines claustrophobic intimacy with some logistically epic scene-setting,” Peter Bradshaw reviews in The Guardian.
  • The Higher Education Ministry is looking to attract foreign students to national universities as a way of bringing in foreign currency and is promoting Egypt as an educational hub, particularly for Arabic and Islamic jurisprudence, Al Fanar Media reports.

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