Egypt in the News: It’s slim pickings

The calm before the COP: The foreign press doesn’t have much to say about Egypt this morning.

Mubarak family attorney Farid El Deeb died yesterday after a battle with cancer, theNational reports.

Art industry trade media is still looking at Egypt, with Artnet writing that as the GEM prepares to open and “star-powered installations are arriving in Egypt … its art scene remains desperate and disenfranchised.”

Prosecutors have detained a number of people accused of stealing 59 artifacts from Sohag University’s archeological museum, also according to the National, while US media have zeroed in on a suspicious fruit ship laden with some 1.7k smuggled artifacts that were about to be spirited out of Egypt.