Other coverage in the international media worth noting in brief included:

• The Associated Press’ Mohamed Wagdy profiled Ayman William, an Egyptian painter of church murals, who says he is unfazed by recent attacks against Coptic Christians in Egypt.
• Director of the critically-acclaimed film Clash, Mohamed Diab, says Cairo is deceptively calm now in an interview with The Spectator. He says his future projects could be in jeopardy “It’s definitely going to be harder to make a film because there was an attempt to stop Clash from being released.”
• Egypt plays a walk-on role in a PBS column headlined “How Trump rebooted America’s relationship with its Arab allies.”
• Egypt has urged the US to engage with the Mideast peace process, notes Singapore’s Straits Times, which also picked up an AFP piece quoting El Sisi as noting that on Tiran and Sanafir, “I fulfilled my part, and it is now in the Parliament and with the judiciary. We won’t interfere.” The president made the remark at last week’s youth conference.