We would love to have tourists return in droves, but let’s not get too chummy with the khawaget, eh? Such is the message this morning from both the House of Representatives and an arm of the Ismail government.

Speak not to the dastardly foreigners… The Interior Ministry is warning on its Facebook page that answering poll questions from foreign media — which it says has been calling citizens of late — is a threat to national security. “The ministry calls on citizens to be cautious around those twisted methods of gathering information about the situation inside the country that aim to harm Egyptian national security.” The story, naturally enough, has been widely picked up by the international press.

…and take not their money: The House of Representatives has approved the controversial new NGO law and the bill and has sent the bill to Ittihadiya for it to be signed into law, AFP’s Arabic-language service reports. While the House majority voted in favor of the law, there are critics, in and out of parliament, who believe the decision was hasty. The law has been condemned by Human Rights Watch. The story is dominating headlines about Egypt this morning, with Reuters’ take a moderate one: “Human rights groups and activists say [the law] effectively bans their work and makes it harder for charities to operate. The bill restricts NGO activity to developmental and social work and introduces jail terms of up to five years for non- compliance. It bans NGOs from conducting fieldwork or polls without permission or ‘from cooperating in any way with any international body without the necessary approval’. Human rights groups say that includes the United Nations.” Ahram Online’s Gamal Essam El Din has more.