Other coverage worth noting in brief this morning:

• Love from our eastern neighbors: Cairo offers grandeur on an epic scale, from pyramids to traffic jams, writes Seth J. Frantzman for the Jerusalem Post reviewing Cairo’s tourist attractions. “Come here a year from now and you’ll see changes … Security is much better, you feel it everywhere,” Reverend Andrea Zaki, the head of the Protestant churches in Egypt, tells Frantzman.
• Some random Huffpost contributor looks at Putin’s power play in the Middle East and how that could ultimately lead to a “Pax Russica” in the region. A key component of this strategy is lending Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi his “unconditional support.”
• Egyptian journalists are gearing up for “divisive” syndicate elections, Ramadan Al Sherbini writes for Gulf News.
• US authorities “came close” to deporting Egyptian-born French Jewish Holocaust-era scholar Henry Rousso, Jerusalem Post reports. “It seems like there’s much more rigidity and rigor in enforcing these immigration requirements and the technicalities of every visa,” a law professor says. JPost adds it is not clear what led to Rousso’s detention and near-deportation.