The economy is leading the conversation on Egypt in the foreign press this morning: The Financial Times is out with a piece on how uncertainty over the USD-EGP exchange rate has put a brake on private investment, while an article in Al Monitor questions how much foreign-currency was brought into the country by the sale of a 9.5% stake in Telecom Egypt last week.

AND- The New York Times reports that archaeologists now think they know why ancient Egyptians collected severed hands as wartime trophies while the Washington Post is running an op-ed by formerly imprisoned writer Abdelrahman El Gendy calling for the release of his friend Ayman Moussa, who remains in jail.

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