experts like Maghawri Shehata, president of the Arab Association for Healthy Water, have cast doubts on the outcome of the committee. According to Shehata, Ethiopia postponed ratification of the agreement last year, and it has not changed its position since. Moreover, it began working on the foundatio

nting a quarter of the Arab world and strategically located on the Suez Canal and Afro-Asian rift -- is a power in its own right. Sissi, Ahmed, and Shehata's arrival might signal a desire to pursue a foreign policy more befitting of Egypt's prestige, an approach to the world that does not privilege an