(A group of Salafi Nour Party’s female members hold posters of Sisi- via FaceBook)

Main Headlines

Monday

• EU monitoring team to Oversee Egypt’s presidential election
• Egypt’s role in Libyan military offensive is just a rumor
• 3 soldiers were killed in a drive by shooting near Azhar University protest
• 34 members of ‘Judges for Egypt’ were referred to disciplinary committee
• Egypt court acquits 169 Brotherhood supporters
• Egyptian man sentenced to death for throwing of boys off a building
• Two policemen killed in Upper Egypt
• ‪Kuwait to deport 15 Egyptians who took part in an illegal rally in support of Sisi

Tuesday

• Sisi is a clear winner in early results of the presidential election’s expat vote
• PEC: 312,000 expats have voted in Egypt’s election
• 2-year sentences upheld for 9 activists in Alexandria
• Six “extremists” killed in airstrike in Sinai
• One student was killed during clashes in Cairo University
• Army went inside Alexandria University to control clashes
• Al Jazeera warns life of its journalist jailed in Egypt is at risk
• Travel between Egypt and Libya suspended until security restored

Wednesday

• Sisi gets 94.5% and Sabahi 5.5% in expat vote
• ‪Sisi aims to bring deficit down to 8.5 pct by 2017-18
• Ousted Egyptian leader Mubarak gets three years in prison for embezzling millions
• Message to Sisifrom relatives of Egypt’s mass trial defendants
• Egypt court jails 155 Brotherhood supporters
• Egyptian teenage scientist plans to seek Asylum in the United States

 Thursday

• Trial for Al-Jazeera staff trial reaches 10th court session
• State might collapse if El-Sisi doesn’t become president: Nour Party head
• Over 100 activists petition to NCHR about jailed hunger strikes in Egypt
• Cairo university evacuates its student hostel during elections
• Egyptian security forces raid the offices of a rights group days ahead of election
• Egypt’s Rights Council to visit hunger-striken detainees
• Women council opposes proposed women representation in parliament –
• Female genital mutilation trial is postponed to June

Friday

• Egyptian army issues security guidelines for upcoming vote
• Egypt: Islamist Shadi al-Meneiis shot dead in the Sinai peninsula
• PEC cancels voting in South Sinai subcommittees
• Homemade bomb explodes in Cairo’s Nasr City without injuries
• Rights group urges authorities to stop torture in prison
• Interior Ministry: Smugglers kill security officer in Rafah
• Egypt sees 22% year on year drop in April’s tourism numbers

Saturday

• Army and police prepare to secure presidential poll
• The U.S. will work with either democratically elected winner of Egypt’s presidency
• Sisi says Egypt will not allow armed turmoil in neighboring Libya to threaten its national security
• Three dead and 58 wounded in Friday clashes
• 19 students given 5 years in prison for storming Al-Azhar building
• Egypt bars critic of Morsi’s army ouster from travel
• ‪Sisi supporters clash with opponents in downtown Cairo
• ‪UAE to continue political, economic support to Egypt after the poll
• Opposition parties criticize draft parliamentary law

Sunday 

• Wide array of International observers ‪will be monitoring presidential polls
• Sinai based militant group denies its leader was killed
• Egypt suspends over a dozen “Pro-Morsi judges”
• Interim president says that the state is neutral in Egypt’s poll
• Preparation to unfreezeEgypt’s AU membership after election: Observer
• Trial of Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah is adjourned
• More than 41,000 have been arrested in Egypt since July – NGO.

 Good Reports

• Egypt’s break with Qatar could contribute to a scorching summer for the country’s residents. Erin Cunningham
• Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi: behind the public face of Egypt’s soon-to-be president. Patrick kingsley
• Why Egypt should open its prisons. Mada Masr
• Egypt, international groups weigh value of observers for the election. Amro Hassan and Laura King
• Sabahi is the better candidate’: Leading Coptic figure Ehab El-Kharrat. Dina Ezzat
• Cairo’s prostitute tale charts Egyptian slide to desperation. Tarek El-Tablawy
• Old regime figures fill the Islamist void in Upper Egypt. Mariam Rizk
• Egyptian ‪Brotherhood split on using force as ‪Sisi is poised to rule. Michael Georgy
• Egypt’s Brotherhood entrenched for war of attrition. Samer Al-Atrush

Good read

• Egypt after election. CFR’s Expert Roundup
• The Mubarak Mansions. Hossam Bahgat
• A partnership for Egypt. Jon Alterman
• The Muslim Brotherhood thinks it’s winning again. Eric Trager
• Egypt’s War on terrorism. Zack Gold
• Energy in Egypt: Fuelling unhappiness. The Economist
• Egypt’s next president. Ursula Lindsey
• Debunking the neo-Nasserism myth. Amr Hamzawy

Interview

• Egypt’s interim prime minister.BBC News
• ‪Sabahi‘s campaign spent less than EGP 100,000
• ‪Sisi‘s campaign spent 12 million EGP ‪

 Photo Gallery

• Battle of the banners
• Sabbahi’s presidential campaign flies kites in Cairo

 Plus:

• El-Sisi and Sabahi speak on key issues: A virtual debate
• Presidential Race 2014: Abdel Fatah al-Sisi
• Presidential Race 2014: Hamdeen Sabahi

Poll:

• Key takeaways from Pew Research’s Egypt survey

Finally, here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt