The foreign press appears to have taken a break from talking about Egypt on Christmas, giving us the gift of a rather quiet morning, save for a handful of headlines to skim:

  • Egypt’s attempt to keep extremist religious ideology out of schools earned some ink in the Modern Tokyo Times, which writes of teachers with Ikhwan or Salafi affiliations being sacked after forcing hijabs as part of the uniform, making prayers mandatory, or otherwise pushing extremist ideology.
  • Egyptian book publisher gets five years behind bars after translating Israeli book: Khaled Lutfi, an Egyptian book publisher, has been sentenced to five years in prison after translating the Israeli book "The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel" by Uri Bar-Joseph under the accusation that the book divulged military secrets, according to The Jerusalem Post.
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