Topping coverage of Egypt in the foreign press: Wire pickups of the arrest of a second suspect allegedly involved in the 2014 Fairmont Hotel [redacted] case and the detention of three others being held in Lebanon are leading the conversation this morning (Reuters | AP).

It turns out that pre-Nasr Egypt seriously backed the idea of a dam on the Blue Nile. The Egyptian government proposed in 1946 a joint project with Ethiopia to construct a dam near the source of the Blue Nile, only for Addis Ababa to roundly reject the idea. That’s according to documents declassified by the British government seen by BBC Arabic.

The “Kings of the Sun” exhibition of ancient Egyptian artifacts is getting coverage in Al Monitor ahead of its opening in Prague today.

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