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Monday, 6 May 2019

Foreign coverage of Egypt centers on ancient cemetery discovery

The foreign press remains occupied this morning with the discovery of an ancient burial site near the Giza pyramids, blessing us with an otherwise quiet day.

Other headlines worth noting in brief include:

  • Egypt and Israel’s policy goals in Gaza are directly at odds with each other, an article in Haaretz argues.
  • Islamist Hazem Salah Abu Ismail has had a five-year prison sentence upheld by Egypt’s top appeals court, Reuters reports. Abu Ismail, a disqualified candidate in the 2012 presidential race, was handed a jail sentence in 2017 for participating in violent demonstrations at a court in Nasr City in December 2012.
  • Egyptian and Chinese women working to build the new capital’s business district talkto Chinese media outlet CGTNabout their professional lives.
  • Egyptian police agents thought Italian student Giulio Regeni was a British spy, new testimonials suggest, according to Middle East Online.

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