It is a truly slow morning for Egypt in the international press — not that we’re complaining. Coverage is limited largely to pickups of wire reports on the discovery of a “massive ancient building” in Mit Rahina believed to have once been part of the nation’s ancient capital.

Among the very small handful of headlines worth a sentence each:

  • Investigators are probing the death of a Coptic monk who had previously been posted at a monastery at which the abbott was found murdered earlier this year, the Associated Press reports. Expect this story to have legs.
  • Residents of Warraq are grumbling as the government demolishes nearby neighborhoods as part of its urban renewal drive, Reuters reports.
  • Common purpose with the Statelet? Cairo and Doha share a common goal of a peaceful Gaza despite the existing diplomatic tensions between the two sides, according to a report by intelligence outfit Stratfor Worldview.
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