Driving the agenda this morning in the international media are two pieces by global media titans: The New York Times’ Liam Stack (filling in for bureau chief Declan Walsh, who’s off covering the U.S. elections) turns in “Gloomy Egypt Sees Its International Influence Wither Away,” while the Financial Times’ Heba Saleh was in Monya to report “Egypt’s Christians lose patience with Sisi as attacks spike.”

Gloomy, inward-looking: in a piece that quotes Amr Moussa, former Ambassador to DC Nabil Fahmy and veteran journo turned ICG regional director Issandr El Amrani, the Times’ slack writs: “A sense of gloom hangs over the country. Traditionally a leader of the Arab world, politically and culturally, and home to a quarter of its population, Egypt has become inward-looking and politically marginalized in a way not seen for generation

“Copts have grown more critical of the failure of the Sisi government to stop attacks against their community and ensure that the perpetrators face justice,” Saleh writes for the FT, saying that the informal dispute resolution mechanisms often fail to deliver justice and quotes human rights groups as saying that “reconciliation councils, which give fines rather than prison sentences, amount to impunity and therefore encourage further violence” against Copts.