It’s an exceptionally slow news day for Egypt in the international press amid a bank holiday in the UK and Memorial Day weekend in the United States. Dominating the (very quiet) conversation are pickups of wire reports that the assets of Mubarak-era Interior Minister Habib El Adly have been unfrozen.

Elsewhere, Egypt’s influence on Gaza’s educational system is in the spotlight, with academic Mona Jebril arguing in University World News that it is preventing institutional and structural reform by failing to cultivate critical thinking.

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