(Hamdeen Sabbahi, Egypt’s presidential candidate)

Main Headlines

Monday

• Military airstrikes kill 30 militants in North Sinai
• Disturbing camera phone video shows foreign journalists detained in Egypt
• Egypt’s quick-fix minimum wage hike fails to calm workers
• German TV to give Egypt satirist Bassem Youssef pan-Arab airing
• Brotherhood Supreme Guide referred to criminal court in new Rabaa case
• Three Egyptians, and six Israelis accused of spying for Israel
• Security services storm two news networks, arrest journalists
• Doctors begin partial strike on Monday
• Belal Fadl is censored in Shorouk, publishes in Mada Masr

Tuesday

• White House urges Egypt to release detained journalists, and academics
• Campaign to free detained Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt goes viral
• Dutch journalist flees Egypt after indictment on terror charges
• Trial of ousted president Morsi resumes amid heavy security
• Egyptian foreign ministry summons Qatari envoy
• Egypt PM El-Beblawi assures Saudi leader of growing stability following Morsi’s ouster
• Egypt forecasts gas shortage next fiscal year

Wednesday

• Young Islamists form new alliance
• Al Jazeera English journalists moved to lower security detention
• Limited cabinet reshuffle imminent
• Alexandria’s historic Villa Aghion in process of demolition
• Al-Sisi meets his Sudanese counterpart
• Ibrahim Eissa found not guilty of contempt of religion
• Imam Mazhar Shahin: I insist on divorcing Brotherhood wives

Thursday

• Army spokesperson: Kuwaiti newspaper confirmation of Sisi’s candidacy ” is just journalistic speculations.”
• Officer shot dead by unknown assailants in Sharqiya
• Court accepts retrials in Port Said massacre case
• Health Ministry: 24 cases of swine flu since December
• Security crackdown in the city of Sheikh Zuwayed in North Sinai
• Mubarak to face trial on new charges
• Energy subsidy  is expected to increase up to LE140 billion by end of the fiscal year

Friday 

• Six hurts in blasts near police checkpoint in Giza
• 3 killed in clashes as Morsi loyalists keep protesting
• New groupclaims responsibility for Giza overpass bombing
• Foreign minister ends tour of Europe in the Netherlands amid heavy criticism of press freedoms
• Saudi Arabia, and UAEto finance Russian arms deal with Egypt
• British Foreign Secretary is concerned by press restrictions in Egypt

Saturday

• Left-wing Sabbahi declares bid for Egypt’s presidency
• Egypt’s top satirist back on air after suspension
• Low-ranking Egyptian police officers strike in several governorates
• Two militant groups claim responsibility for same attack in Egypt
• Egyptian police conscript kills officer: Security official
• Mubarak suffers high blood pressure at court
• Pro-Morsi alliance to announce reconciliation initiative Tuesday

Sunday

• Abul Fotouh will not to compete in presidential elections
• Tamarod says members suspended for “violating agreement.”
• More Tamarod members back Sabbahi candidacy
• Egypt’s Interior Ministry said it had broken up a “military wing”  of the Muslim Brotherhood
• Egyptian Islamist leader Sultan claims torture in detention ‪
• Mona Mina resigns as secretary-general of doctors syndicate
• Suspects in Beni Suef attack on police caught

Interview

• Abul Fotouh: “I won’t engage in political cosmetics.” Dina Ezzat
• Mohamed Hammouda: A benevolent dictator would consider human rights for respectful citizens:

Photo Gallery

• Journalists protest Egypt jailing of Jazeera colleagues

 Good Reports

• The Crooks return to Cairo. Bel Trew and Osama Diab
• Are Egypt’s police outmatched in the war on terrorism? Sherif Tarek

Good Read

• A history lesson. The Economist
• Egypt’s despair, and its hope. Alaa Al-Aswany
• What Egypt needs now. Wael Nawara
• Polarization reveals fault-lines of Egypt’s: two opposing sides. H. A. Hellyer
• Egypt’s presidential election: From the outside looking in. Nader Bakkar

 Plus:

• US Working Group gives wrong advice on Egypt
• U.S. working group responds to Wael Nawara criticism of its recommendations on US policy toward Egypt
• William Hague’s statement on media restrictions in Egypt

Tribute

 Umm Kulthum left the building 39 years ago. The Middle East Institute

Finally, here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt