Main Headlines

Monday

• Egypt deadlocked over crackdown 
on pro-Morsi camps
• Morsi’s supporters stand firm, brace for Egypt crackdown
• Facebook removes Egypt’s jihadi pages for inciting violence
• Mansour set to appoint 20 new governors 20 new governors
• Egypt‘s judiciary extends Morsi detention for 15 days
• Public prosecution orders arrest of 14 accused in Bani Suef’s clashes

Tuesday

• Egypt restores ex-generals’ rule role in provinces
• Al-Nour party rejects constituent assembly
• Six torture cases reported at Rabaa sit-in: MOI
• Beltagy and Hegazy’s trial date set
• Dissolved Shura Council condemns media

Wednesday

• Hundreds dead after security forces storm pro-Morsi camps
• Three journalists killed in Egypt’s turmoil ‪
• 43 police officers killed according to interior minister
• Vice president Mohamed ElBaradei announces resignation
• Kerry: U.S. strongly opposes return to state of emergency law in Egypt.
• Assaults on Churches follow sit-in dispersal
• Archaeological sites and museums closed indefinitely

Thursday

• Death toll rises to 638 in Egypt’s violence:
• Minister of Interior vows to “deal with” new pro-Morsi sit-in
• Police takes over mosque containing the protester bodies
• ElBaradei’s resignation condemned
• Jihadists issue a call to arms amid political crisis in Egypt
• Egypt authorizes further use of live ammunition against protesters
• Foreign companies including Turkish Yildiz holding halt production in Egypt
• Malawi National Museum damaged, looted Malawi National Museum
• Turkey recalls its ambassador in Egypt for consultations

Friday

• Tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters march in defiance of a military-imposed state of emergency:
• Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood calls for a week of protests –
• Third Army disperses Suez’s pro-Morsi sit-in
• Mursi supporters storm schools, and two-churches in Minya two churches – eyewitnesses – ‪
• Six dead, and 17 injured in ‘Friday of anger’ in Sinai’s al-Arish ‪
• Egypt cancels joint naval exercise with Turkey
• Saudi king declares support for Egypt against ‘terrorism’

Saturday

• Protesters trapped inside Cairo mosque ask for ‘safe exit’
• Egypt arrests 385 for Fatah mosque’s clashes
• Egypt’s ‘Friday of Rage’ clashes leave dozens dead
• Al-Jihadeya Al-Salafeya leader Al-Zawahiri captured
• Muslim Brotherhood faces ban
• Tamarod aims to ban US aid and cancel Camp David peace treaty

 Sunday

• Army chief says ‘Egypt is for everyone’ but violence not tolerated
• 36 Islamists prisoners died during attempted jailbreak
• 70 security forces‪ die from dispersal violence: Security source
• Egypt’s stocks slump on fears of international isolation
• Growing number of U.S. lawmakers urge suspension of Egyptian aid
• Banks resume working amid unrest
• MB denies ‘justification’ for Coptic attacks
• Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party conforms that Sunday’s demonstration are not cancelled ( Arabic)

Good Read

• The quiet general. Mike Giglio and Christopher Dickey
• Morsi is no father of the nation. H. A. Hellyer
• Egypt’s identity crisis. Shibley Telhami
• Cutting off the U.S. aid to Egypt would be a serious mistake. Hussein Ibish
• Middle East’s shifting alignment Gregg Carlstrom

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt

I will write my thoughts about Egypt in a separate post.