On a reasonably quiet day for Egypt in the international press, Peter Hessler is back with another long read on Egypt in The New Yorker. In the 2 January issue, Hessler writes that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi “has unwittingly revealed more about his country’s political structures than anybody could have imagined” in an unusually substandard piece titled: “Egypt’s failed revolution.” Hessler uses pretty much every major political incident, relevant and not, since El Sisi became president to reflect on how Egypt is run currently.

Other stories about Egypt in the international stories worth noting this morning:

• Let’s not and say you didn’t: A “tri-state” solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s just one line in an op-ed on Israel, the US and the UN by former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, a Republican. It’s also the last thing our nation needs: “Far better to essay a ‘three-state solution,’ returning Gaza to Egypt and giving those parts of the West Bank that Israel is prepared to cede to Jordan.”
• Copts may have reservations about the economic and security performance of the Egyptian government, but fears of Islamists could renew their confidence in the current administration, Ahmed Hidji writes for Al-Monitor.