El Erian on Egypt’s dismal World Cup showing: There’s lots to learn. Egyptians shouldn’t be playing the “blame game” because there’s a lot to learn from the national football team’s defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Allianz chief economist Mohamed El Erian writes for Project Syndicate. Lessons — such as managing expectations, capitalizing on existing strengths, seeing things through to the end, and understanding the scope of international exposure — “can be applied well beyond soccer – and well beyond Egypt,” he says.

The lessons are obviously lost on the Egyptian Football Association, which is still fixated on finding someone (thing) to hold responsible. The latest culprit: Fasting for long hours during Ramadan during World Cup prep time, EFA head Hany Abo Rida reportedly said, according to RT. The BBC’s Piers Edwards also attempted to analyze “what went wrong for African teams in Russia.”

Some monkey made public Mo Salah’s home address in Cairo. The 26-year-old Liverpool striker stepped out into the street to greet the mob and sign autographs “with no sign of anger or irritation,” says RT.

Also making headlines this weekend:

• US lawmakers are pressuring Egypt to cover the medical expenses of an American citizen injured in an airstrike in the Western Desert that hit a tourist convoy that was mistaken for a terrorist group on the move, Al Monitor reports.
• Global Data Energy published a detailed history on Egypt’s electricity sector development and diversification since the 1960s.
• Shocker: Turkey’s unhappy with Egypt. Joint exercises between the militaries of Egypt, Greece and Cyprus in the Mediterranean are “a source of serious concern” to the nutter in Ankara, a Turkish political scientist argues in an interview with Sputnik.
• Egypt won’t build refugee camps for migrants deported from the European Union, Deutsche Welle reports, joining Albania, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria in doing so.
• The Grand Egyptian Museum is getting plenty of attention from the Associated Press.
• World’s largest coal-fired power station: The International trade press is picking up on the Hamrawein “clean coal” plant being built by the Hassan Allam-Dong Feng-Shanghai Electric consortium.
• Amnesty denounces mass trial: Amnesty International issued a statement denouncing the mass trial of 739 people for their connection to the 2013 Rabaa sit-in as a “grotesque parody of justice.”