Egypt’s vaccine ambitions are in the foreign press: Egypt’s ambitious plans to produce as many as 1 bn vaccine doses annually at its new Vacsera facility, as well as a partnership with a European vaccine-maker is getting ink in Reuters. Also making news: This week’s release of three public figures who had spent over a year in pre-trial detention is still getting attention from the Washington Post.

Also making headlines:

• Don’t buy Egyptian antiquities, even the fake ones, warned art crime professor Erin Thompson in the NY Daily News, warning that sales of fake artefacts only feed the black market in looted heritage.
• Egyptian-born, Milan-based model and influencer Aya Mohamed, AKA @milanpyramid, who has worked with Gucci and Prada was profiled by Harper’s Bazaar Arabia for her new project designing luxury headscarves.
• Priests in Ancient Egypt were banned from consuming onions for fear they would break their vows of celibacy, the Guardian reports.