How slow a news day is it for Egypt in the international media? Bad enough we’re reduced to noting that the Daily Mail is running more ground-breaking coverage of Dr. Essam Aly, an Egyptian anesthetist who is accused of having lied about where he was working during a paid leave from the National Health Service.

The headline (we kid you not): “Doctor, 55, who was ordered to pay every penny of his £550,000 assets to his ex-wife in a landmark divorce case is struck off after he took on private work without telling his NHS bosses and then tried to cover it up.” That’s the headline. Not the lede. The good doctor’s divorce was apparently sufficiently interesting that the Daily Mirror also covered it last year.

Meanwhile, gold miner Centamin gets lots of love from the Financial Times (paywall), which notes the Egypt-focused producer’s strong 3Q2016 production figures and the potential held out by Centamin’s promised expansion to an underground site that seems to offer the potential of 9g of gold per ton processed against 1g per ton at its present open pit.

Over 120 images of ancient Egyptian boats were discovered along the interior of a building in Abydos, Livescience reported. The building dates back over 3,800 years. The series of images is called a tableau, and contained "large, well-rendered boats depicted with masts, sails, rigging, deckhouses/cabins, rudders, oars and in some cases rowers," wrote curator at the Penn Museum and excavation leader, Josef Wegner said.

And in the Islamist press, Al Jazeera reports on the case of a 22-year-old alleged to have been detained by authorities (the boy is reportedly apolitical, his father a member of the Ikhwan). The Qatar-funded website is also rambling on about how President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s “remarks about his fridge reveal just how much Egyptians have cooled towards him.” The brilliant lede: “You could say that Egypt has had its very own Watergate. But unlike its American counterpart, this was not about tapes and spying and political scandal, but about water, a refrigerator and scandalised social media.” Riiight… Not a stretch at all.

Also making the rounds this morning: Ruth Michaelson’s review in The Guardian of the Bab Aldonia bookshop and cafe in Cairo, which has a soundproof-ish “scream room.” Michaelson says screaming “‘can help cure disease,’ [a regular patron] says, puffing on a cigarette.”