El Warraq clashes tops coverage of Egypt in the foreign press
Topping coverage of Egypt in the foreign press this morning are pickups of the clashes at El Warraq, where one resident of the neighborhood was killed and fifty policemen were injured. Most of the coverage, particularly pickups of the Associated Press, appeared to focus on the poor timing of the campaign in the wider context of the residents of El Warraq being mostly poor and already hurting from inflation and the economic reform measures. “To El Warraq’s middle class and poor residents, however, the sight of bulldozers coming to demolish their homes may have been more than they could bear at a time when they, like most Egyptians, are struggling to cope with soaring prices for food and services,” writes Hamza Hindawi.
Coming in at a close second are continued wire pickups of the stabbing attack which took place in Hurghada over the weekend. Not much new there beyond what we looked at yesterday. Euro News, however, is running images of the attacker from Friday.