** #6 #MeToo in Egypt takes center stage in the foreign press: The struggles of Egypt’s women with [redacted] harassment and the impact of the #MeToo movement led coverage of Egypt in the foreign press over the weekend. The Washington Post’s Sudarsan Raghavan and Heba Farouk Mahfouz profiled Youm7 reporter May El Shamy — one of the few women to file a [redacted] harassment complaint against their superiors in the workplace. The piece notes the online backlash she and others faced, which they claim mirrors tactics used to crush decent. Meanwhile, BBC Arabic interviewed a group of five women who shared their stories of harassment, abuse and assault (watch, runtime: 2:18). The 2013 UN Women study that found that 99% of women have experienced some form of harassment in Egypt featured heavily in both.

The impact of Jamal Khashoggi’s death on Arab and Egyptian dissidents in exile was also a running theme in the foreign press over the weekend. Egyptian exiles in the US and Paris have grown fearful that a lack of accountability for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over Khashoggi’s death will give Arab rulers a license to “go after dissidents living abroad,” says Bloomberg Opinion’s Eli Lake. The concern is common among dissidents in the region, particularly as US President Donald Trump seems to be leaning towards exonerating MbS from the case. “For some activists the sense of threat has been compounded by the perception that the wet — and in particular Mr Trump — has abandoned any broader concern for human rights in the region, emboldening leaders who are itching to crush their opponents,” Heba Saleh, Simeon Kerr, and Andrew England write for the Financial Times.

Other headlines worth noting in brief:

• Calling all development and poli-sci nerds: The Project on Middle East Political Science and the Harvard Middle East Initiative made papers published as part of its April workshop on the impact of economic policies on the Arab Spring protests available online last week. They include German Development Institute’s Markus Loewe’s paper on how the El Sisi administration pushed through socially sensitive reforms.
• The Mubarak sons made it to the AP’s list of notorious descendants of Arab leaders alongside Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the sons of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, and Bashar Al Assad.
• Archaeologists have apparently uncovered parts of a booth with a seat that belonged to Ramses II, the AP reports.