The Associated Press’ “Food cart shut down? Turn to Egypt’s president on live TV” is getting wide pickup internationally. The piece uses President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s high-profile appearances at the new youth conferences to look at the state of affairs in our nation, writing: “Egypt’s general-turned-president has deftly maneuvered his way to being a leader through whom nearly everything is funneled, sidestepping state institutions that are largely weak anyway. The parliament is dutifully loyal, his Cabinet waits on his every word, and the media are almost completely without dissenting voices. At the same time, he has put himself out before the public in a way no Egyptian leader has before.”