“The economy, stupid.” James Carville’s 1992 campaign strategy for Bill Clinton could just as easily be used to describe international coverage of Egypt this morning. Notable entries include “Egypt’s sugar shortage a window on economic policy confusion” by Eric Knecht and Maha El Dahan for Reuters (picked up by everyone from Voice of America to Pakistani news outlets) and CNN’s “Sugar crash sparks crisis in Egypt.”

We’re also being pilloried this morning for a travel ban imposed on rights advocate Malek Adly; the ban is getting coverage on the wires and has prompted Amnesty International to issue a condemnation of the practice.

Meanwhile, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina plays a starring role in the Wall Street Journal’s “How Maverick Architects Snøhetta Became One of the World’s Most Sought-after Firms” (paywall). The average age of the team that created the groundbreaking design was all of 29. Writes the Journal: “Barely out of school, having never realized any built work of such scale and complexity, the newly minted design partners were subjected to a slow-motion bureaucratic steeplechase that lasted 12 years and nearly saw the project canceled more than once. Even when the Bibliotheca Alexandrina was finally ready, in 2001, it didn’t open. September 11 intervened, and the official unveiling was postponed till the following year.”