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...Biden’s reference to Egypt’s leader Abdel Fatah al-Sisi as “president of Mexico” did not help his case....
...But, minutes later, he referred to Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as the leader of Mexico in response to a reporter’s question about the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza....
...Now ex-general Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s rule is widely seen as even more repressive than Mubarak’s....
...Best of the rest The Cambridge Analytica saga is a scandal of Facebook’s own making — John Harris in The Guardian The new military-industrial complex of big data psy-ops — Tamsin Shaw in the New York Review...
...(FT) The politics of sugar Egyptians have seen their political freedoms eroded and their currency drop in value without too much grumbling under the rule of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi....
...(Al-Monitor) Egypt’s military economy Under Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, Egypt’s president and former army chief, the military is widening its footprint on the country’s struggling economy....
...(Guardian) Sisi’s fridge How a gaffe about the Egyptian president’s fridge by a senior Saudi official helped fuel a feud between Cairo and Riyadh....
...Rights groups estimate that as many as 40,000 have been arrested in Egypt since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took power in 2013. (BBC, Telegraph) South Sudan fighting....
...The Automobile Club of Egypt, by Alaa Al Aswany, translated by Russell Harris, Canongate, RRP£14.99 / Knopf, RRP$27.95, 480 pages...
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