We have been blessed with yet another relatively quiet morning for Egypt in the foreign press.

…full of sound and fury, signifying nothing: Businessman Mohamed Bahgat got a boost from the Financial Times in his long-running dispute with the government of Egypt thanks to what feels like clever legal counsel and a dash of PR juju. The news trigger? Bahgat’s lawyers convinced a Dutch bailiff to seize an unused Egyptian embassy building in The Hague as part of a global search for assets to attach to a USD 115 mn arbitral award. Egypt is appealing to have the award set aside. The salmon-coloured paper would have you believe that the dispute “provides a rare insight into the challenges that investors, domestic and foreign, can face in doing business in the Middle East,” etc, etc. Nothing like a little bit of orientalism to spice up the last day of the first week of Ramadan, no?

A couple of headlines to skim, however briefly: Cairo-based tech company Giza Systems is 3D-printing protective face masks for healthcare workers and distributing some 2k of the plastic shields daily to 25 Egyptian medical facilities, AFP reports. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch alleged that two women were forcibly disappeared from their homes after criticizing the government’s covid-19 response.