Egypt is facing a direct threat from climate change and rising sea levels, Jane Arraf writes for NPR. In Alexandria, “all along the waterfront, the government has erected barriers to counter increasingly fierce winter storms. There’s no beach on this part of the shore. The sand washed away years ago… Some historic buildings are already crumbling, as salt water seeps into the bricks. Entire neighborhoods could be submerged,” Arraf writes. The threat of rising sea levels is impacting the Nile delta, as “with rising sea levels, sea water is seeping into Nile water used for irrigation.” One villager told Arraf: “Last winter was the worst … he sea swallowed up some of the land and got closer and closer to the village. We’re seeing things we never saw before, in a way that could make us believe this is anger from God on the village and its people.”

Worth noting in brief this morning

• Egyptian-born Rasha Rushdy pens a heartfelt piece in the Huffington Post about the truths of being a “third culture kid” and their desire to “belong” in a “simple, uncomplicated, one-dimensional way.”
• Egypt’s first female dolphin trainer, Nesma Rafet, is stepping things up and possibly launching her own training program, Amira Sayed Ahmed writes for Al-Monitor.
• Former presidential candidate and politician Ayman Noor, and others, talk about their flight from Egypt after Mohammed Morsi was drummed out in 2013, in a piece by (surprise) Turkey’s Anadolu.
• Islamists could grow in popularity in Egypt, writes Brent Nagtegaal for some random publication called The Trumpet in an attempt to plug a booklet.