Main Headlines

Monday

• General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi promoted to Field Marshal‪
• Egypt’s SCAF empowers Field Marshal El-Sisi to run for president
• Deputy PM Ziad Bahaaeddin resigns
• Egypt releases Libyan militiaman Hadia after 5 kidnapped Egyptian diplomats let go
• Forensics: 62 dead in 25 January anniversary
• Egypt’s Socialist Popular Alliance demands dismissal of interior minister 

Tuesday

• Interior Ministry senior official was shot by anonymous militants
• Law amendments to pave the way for presidential polls 
• Egyptian pound holds big gains versus dollar after huge central bank dollar sale
• Morsi rages inside glass cage at trial
• Police fire teargas at pro-Morsi protesters in downtown Cairo
• David Petraeus: “Shooting down a helicopter with an apparent shoulder-fired missile is a big deal.”
• Militants blow up gas pipeline in Sinai
• Gunmen attack church in 6 October City

Wednesday

• Egypt’s prosecutor to place 20 Al-Jazeera journalists on trial
• Egypt, US army officials discuss military ties in Cairo
• Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis has claimed responsibility for the killing of interior minister’s aide
• Egypt military offensive kills 8 militants in northern Sinai
• Strong Egypt Party says Sisi nomination infringes the civil country
• Railway services to Upper Egypt resume after temporary halt
• Egyptian government panel freezes funds of 46 Brotherhood leaders
• Popular Current spokesperson: Sabbahi is still undecidedon presidential run

Thursday

• Terror charges against Al Jazeera staff draws international condemnation
• Police to arrest social media users who incite violence
• Saudi Arabiasaid to give Egypt $4bn in extra aid
• Political groups gave mixed reactions to SCAF’s El-Sisi statement
• Mansour presents proposed amendments to elections law for debate
• Free entry to Al-Fustat Garden for unauthorized protesters: Cairo Governor
• UNESCO delegate to tour the Museum of Islamic Arts
• Egypt’s stocks hit three-year record high

 Friday

• Two IEDs explode near CSF truck‪
• Egyptian army says 13 militants have been killed  in an air strike in northern Sinai.
• Microbus driver dead after allegedly storming checkpoint
• Foreign Ministry: US statement on trial of journalists “unacceptable”
• Israeli Iron Dome intercepts rocket launched from Sinai at Eilat
• Newly approved political party is formed to ‘purge’ Egypt of terrorists

 Saturday

• Morsi’s presidential palace trial postponed to 4 February
• President Mansour meets British delegation, slams claims of a return of military rule in Egypt
• Egyptian PM says reshuffle to include defense minister
• Egypt’s top satirist BassemYoussef joins ‪MBC
• Sinai-based militants claim rocket attack on Israel
• Seven injured and 13 killed following airstrike on militants in Sinai
• Salafist Call won’t endorse El-Sisi as presidential candidate: Borhamy
• Deep scars remain on second anniversary of Port Said disaster

 Sunday

• Egyptian court acquits Al Jazeera photographer, and 61 Morsi loyalists
• Egypt’s top satirist voices concerns over Sisi nomination
• British parliamentarians meet Al-Sisi, the Pope, among other top officials
• Sabahy proposes national initiative
• European Union latest to condemn crackdown on journalists
• Car bomb wounds 3 civilians in in Egypt’s Sinai
• Libyan PM: “We will not allow Libyan Brotherhood to undermine Egypt’s security.” Arabic

 Photo Gallery

• Museum of Islamic Artsafter bomb attack
• Funeral of General Mohamed Said
• Murder trial of Egypt’s Morsi resumes
• Fourth doctor dies of pulmonary infection

 Video

• Egypt’s Uprising: The Impact of Three Years on a photojournalist. Mohamed Abdelfattah

Good Reports 

• Facts and fiction about a youth boycott. Hassan Abou Taleb
• Ajnad Misr, Egypt’s latest Jihadi group.  David Barnett
• Crushed hopes in Egyptbecome art in New York. Jennie Matthey

Good read

• Revolutionary realists. Wael Gamal
• On being Karman and Hamzawy. Mohamed Fouad
• Egypt’s post-Mubarak predicament. Ashraf El-Sherif
• Sisi, the presidency, and the officers. Hesham Sallam
• On Egypt’s youthand the possibility of another revolution. The Big Pharoah
• Salafists court Washington. Mohamed Elmenshawy

Plus 

• Progressive Problem shift or Paradigmatic Degeneration? Approaches to Islamism since 2011. Stacey Philbrick Yadav

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt

 My thoughts this week will be published tomorrow. Stay tuned.