The foreign press hasn’t got much to say about Egypt this morning: The one article of note is brought to us by the Guardian, which reports that the Cairo International Book Fair has banned the imprisoned publisher Khaled Lotfy’s company from the event due to “security concerns.” Lotfy was handed a five-year jail term last year for “spreading rumors and revealing military secrets” after he published a biography of Egyptian official Ashraf Marwan, who allegedly spied for Israel.
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