Main Headlines

Monday

• Militant group in Egypt’s Sinai warns the military
• National alliance to support Legitimacy will boycott referendum on draft constitution.
• Al Jazeera journalist detained in Egypt begins hunger strike
• Activist sentencing draws domestic and international criticism
• Brothers Mekki and others were summoned for investigations
• Clashes outside Ain shams University
• Protesters march to demand the release of jailed activists

Tuesday

• 15 dead, and 134 injured Egypt’s Mansoura explosion
• Mansoura’s bombing aims at obstructing the road map. Egypt’s PM
• Egypt’s political forces accuse the Brotherhood of orchestrating the Mansoura attack
• Mansoura’s residents attack Brotherhood’s property following bomb attack
• Initial reports say car bomb behind the Mansoura blast
• Pro-Morsi students, security forces clash on Al-Azhar campus
• Egypt to dispatch envoy to South Sudanfor mediation
• Egypt arrests Morsi’s ex-prime ministeron his way to Sudan

Wednesday

• Egypt declares the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization
• Ansar Beit al-Maqdis claims responsibility for the Mansoura bombing
• The Muslim Brotherhood vows protests despite ‘terror’ listing
• Blast hits public transport bus near Cairo’s ‪Azhar University –
• Gunmen fire on bus in Rafah
• Hamas condemns accusation of Palestinians attacking Egyptian prisons
• Clashes in Zagazig University prompt police intervention
• Amr Moussa: We should hold the parliamentary elections before the presidential

Thursday

• Interior ministry details sentences for associating with ‘terrorist’ Brotherhood
• Egypt orders 18 Brotherhood members held on terror charges: State media
• 54 Brotherhood membersarrested in 7 governorates
• Those who harm Egyptians will “will vanish from the face of earth”: General El-Sisi
• Three jailed activists activists start hunger strike against ‘ill-treatment.’ ‪
• Coptic pope calls for Egypt presidential elections first
• Hamas should disengage from ‘terrorist’ Muslim Brotherhood: Fatah

 Friday

• Three killed in pro-Brotherhood rallies
• Egypt freezes assets of 132 Brotherhood leaders 132 Brotherhood leaders
• Protester killed in Minya clashes on Friday http://t.co/WFGeQqf86D
• Mansoura bombing suspect is identified
• Police defuse bomb outside Kafr al-Sheik’s3 Security Directorate
• Egypt to send public delegations to Nile basin neighbors
• Four injured in clashes in Cairo district – http://t.co/JkXTCkXaZQ
• Brotherhood supporters torch police vehicles in Giza
• Army chief allocates aircraft to transport humanitarian aid to South Sudan

Saturday

• Al-Azhar campus torched amid Egypt’s protests
• Egypt death toll from Friday clashes rises to five
• Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood defectors form new group
• Journalists protest ‪Journalists protest closure of Brotherhood newspaper
• Former jihadists: General Sisi has qualities of Egypt’s next leader
• Arrest of mosque preacheraccused of burning Sohag church
• UK will not automatically follow Egypt  and designate the Brotherhood a terrorist organization
• HRW: Egypt’s decision to tag the Brotherhood as a ‘terrorist group’ is politically driven.
• Egypt’s FM says disputes is ongoing with Qatar

Sunday

• Huge blast heard near Intelligence HQ in Egypt’s Sharqiya
• Three Muslim Brotherhood leading members secretly left Egypt
• Arab League has not received ‘official’ notice from Egypt concerning Muslim Brotherhood
• Brotherhood groups to be banned from monitoring the referendum
• Clashes between security, Brotherhood students resume outside Azhar University ‪
• Three “Islamist radicals” arrested in Sinai
• Army spokesman announces destruction of 4 smuggling tunnels in Rafah. FB
• Smart minibuses with WiFi service to operate in January

 Headline from the past relevant to this week’s events

• Muslim brotherhood is financing radical Islamists. Egypt’s interior minister

 Poll

• Baseera poll shows Egyptians unsure about Mansoura attack perpetrators

 Photo gallery:

• In Pictures: The aftermath of the blast in Mansoura

 Android Apps for Egypt’s constitution, English and Arabic. Mina Fayek

 Plus: Muslim Brotherhood’s Arabic statement:  “Freezing assets opens door for Christian missionaries that’ll make poor Muslims leave Islam.”

 Good reports

• Under pressure, the white house pulls Egypt’s ambassador pick. Yochi Dreazen
• Silent night. Bel Trew
• From honeymoon to bitter divorce: Turkey-Egypt relations in 2013. Sinem Cengiz

Good read

• Egypt’s crackdown on Islamist charities  Steven Brooke
• The existential struggle for the heart of political Egypt. Hussein Ibish
• Between idealism and terrorism. Mohamed Fouad
• The Weak state. Mahmoud Salem
• The battle for Egypt’s doctors’ union. Wael Nawara
• Egypt’s decision fuels vigilante violenceagainst Muslim Brotherhood. Mohannad Sabry

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt.