Three Egyptian policemen were able to catch a five-year-old child as he fell from a third-floor apartment balcony in Assiut, saving the boy’s life, the Associated Press reports. The news and the video of the incident are making the rounds in international outlets.

Also worth a quick skim this morning:

• Egypt has become essential to Russia’s endeavours in Syria, particularly in negotiations with different parties in the conflict, Raghida Dergham writes in an opinion piece for The National.
• French philosopher Alain Badiou says elections in Egypt pose a more important question beyond the issue of participation, in an interview with Open Democracy.
• Egypt’s military campaign in Sinai must be coupled with development and reconstruction efforts to be successful in weeding out terrorism, experts tell VOA News’ Mohamed Elshinnawi.
• The Benban solar power park will provide Egypt with “the clean energy it needs to drive growth and fight poverty,” Sibel Nicholson says in Interesting Engineering.
• An Ikhwan member who had been reported ‘disappeared’ turned up in a Daesh video, according to Arab Weekly.
• Egyptian filmmaker Sam Abbas launched the Arab world’s first LGBTQ-focused film production company, ArabQ, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

New box office champ: Finally, ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’ has surpassed ‘Avatar’ as top-grossing Hollywood movie ever in Egypt, Al Arabiya reports.