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Monday, 28 August 2017

Other stories worth a skim on 28 August:

Other stories worth a skim this morning:

  • Bel Trew takes a look at the rise of delivery and courier culture in Cairo in response to economic challenges in a piece for The Times.
  • US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s decision to withhold aid to Egypt “was a breath of fresh air,” David A. Super writes in a piece for The Hill. 
  • Tensions between Coptic Christians and Muslims in an Upper Egyptian village eased last week after disputes over prayer areas, Christian Today reports. 
  • An Egyptian national has been sentenced to at least 26 years in jail for murder in the UK, The Guardian reports. The BBC also has the story. 
  • President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s African tour was the real coming out of his policy of rapprochement and re engagement with the Nile Basin countries, Ayah Aman writes for Al-Monitor. 
  • Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar will ask that Ibrahim Halawa be returned to Ireland after his trial, in a phone call he has scheduled with the Egyptian President, he tells RTE News. Meanwhile, Ireland’s Independent is recalling the case of an Irish boy allegedly kidnapped by his uncle and smuggled into Egypt eight years ago.
  • Claire Armitstead reviews Omar Robert Hamilton’s debut novel, The City Always Wins, for The Guardian. 

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