It’s a slow news day for Egypt in the international press, with stories including a small, quickly-contained fire (AP) at the site of the new Egyptian Museum and the “comeback of curly hair in Egypt” (BBC) dueling for attention.

Elsewhere:

Egypt is attracting the renewed interest of Irish exporters as Africa’s second-largest economy, the Independent reports. Ireland’s trading relationship with Egypt developed in the 1970s and 1980s with the export of cattle and beef, but much of this trade collapsed in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Today, the devaluation of the Egyptian Pound and a steadily recovering economy have restored Irish interest.

There’s “plenty of good eating, dozing and Egypt’s magnificent past to enjoy” aboard a dahabiya Nile cruise, Ed Cumming reviews for The Guardian. “There was hardly any Wi-Fi, nor much else to do bar read and talk. Four nights of nothing, like this, felt indulgent in a world of rushed weekend mini-breaks and frantic guidebook-chasing. The journey was the whole point. In the few moments we weren’t eating, we lay on loungers and watched as the 10ft reeds and palm trees and wide fields of watermelons slid past. Calls to prayer drifted from unseen minarets on both sides of the river. In time the image of the landscape, that strip of lush green between water and desert, bores into you,” Cumming writes.

Oil giant BP is expected to see a surge in profits on the back of projects in Egypt, North Sea, and Azerbaijan, City A.M reports.