It’s a really mixed bag for Egypt in the international press, with a handful of eternal tropes (from antiquities in the FT to foreign belly dancers and opinions on the military’s involvement in the economy) leavened with a tragic New York murder mystery centered on a family of Egyptian expats. And who knew George Blake (dead at age 98), who famously spied for the USSR before being arrested, escaping jail and defecting to Moscow, had a Cairo connection?

Covid in Egypt makes an appearance, too, thanks to Reuters and the BBC.

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