Politics, top chefs, and the return of Ramses in the foreign press

There’s been plenty of mention of Egypt in the foreign press over the Eid break,with headlines split between politics and culture.

In politics: More than 100 British MPs and peers have signed a letter to the UK foreign secretary to voice concern about the continued detention of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, the Guardian andSky News report. Elsewhere, Foreign Policy has a deep dive into Washington’s influence in Egypt in the years after the ousting of former Mohamed Morsi, while the potential impact of the frank conversations taking place at the ongoing National Dialogue is the subject of an article from the Financial Times’ Heba Saleh.

In culture: The Washington Post profiles a new generation of Egyptian chefs rewriting traditional recipes; A new book showcasing film posters from the golden age of Egyptian cinema is reviewed by the Guardian; Germany’sDW dives into the history of queen Nefertiti; AFP brings us the news that Switzerland yesterday returned a stolen fragment of a Ramses II statue.