( Info-graphic of Suez Canal Project, via Al-Arabiya)

Main Headlines

Monday

• Sisi in Ismailia to inaugurate the Suez Canal development project
• Egypt army says 11 militants were killed in Sinai
• Egypt presents Palestinian truce demands to Israel
• Almost 50,000 Egyptians fled Libya through Matrouh border last month
• Egyptian FM visits Tunisia to check on Egyptians fleeing Libya
• Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE in order to prepare for economic conference
• Egyptian military will not intervene in The Libyan crisis

Tuesday

• Egypt to dig new canal alongside the Suez Canal
• US State Department denied reports that militants targeted a US Multinational Force and Observer in Sinai
• At least nine were killed in shootout in Egyptian coastal town
• All Egyptians on Libyan-Tunisian border to return within 48 hours
• Egyptian stock rallied for he second day amid the inauguration of the Suez Canal mega project
• Egyptian ISIL member urges youth to join their cause

Wednesday

• Egypt’s Intelligence chief meets Palestinian delegation
• Rafah border open to aid Gaza
• Another 260 Egyptians returns from Libya
• Egypt communicates with Libyan tribal leaders to evacuate more citizens
• Egypt court upholds death sentences for 12 Morsi’s supporters
• Egyptian court adjourns Alaa Abdel-Fattah retrial to September 10
• Members of ‘Ansar Al-Sharia ’ militant group are referred to trial

Thursday

• Egyptian Mufti rejects Brotherhood leader death verdict, urges rethink
• El-Sisi to visit to visit Saudi Arabia next Sunday
• Two sentenced to life for sexual assault
• Mubarak-era Egyptian steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz is released on bail
• Egypt’s trade deficit falls for ninth consecutive month
• ‪Egypt’s Pope Tawadros urges Sisi to continue to support the restoration of churches
• Egypt’s foreign reserves inch up in July

Friday 

• Egypt lambasts Israel, Palestine for refusing ceasefire extension
• Egyptian, UAE aid enters Gaza via Rafah
• El-Sisi made a visit to the Suez digging site
• Sabahi ‪announces he ‘won’t run’ for parliament
• Islamist protester killed during a clash with Egyptian police
• Flights from Tunisia continue for Egyptians fleeing Libyan violence
• Egyptians report regular power blackout

Saturday

• Israel airstrikes continue, Egypt calls for resumption of negotiations
• Mubarak’s interior minister says S. orchestrated 2011 revolution
• ‪Egyptian court dissolves Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing
• Egyptian army demolishes 20 tunnels, bringing total to 1659
• Army: 60 “extremists” were killed and 102 arrested in crackdown on North Sinai
• Trucks are banned from Cairo’s main streets during daytime hours
• Egypt Air cancels flights to Erbil amid unrest

 Sunday

• Israel and Hamas agree to another Gaza ceasefire
• El-Sisi: Army did not participate in operations beyond Egypt’s borders
• Egypt’s foreign ministry insists Rafah border is open
• Egypt acquits 45 for US embassy protests in August 2013
• ‪Egypt concludes emergency airlift in Tunisia
• 31 referred to court over killing of Shiite leader last year
• Shoukry and US Libya envoy discuss regional security situation
• Nour Party rejects Salafi Daawa requests to include implementation of Sharia in political platform. Arabic ‪

 Good Reports

• Egypt fights to preserve billion-dollar ties with US. Al-Monitor
• A year later, protest’s bloody end divides Egypt. Associated Press
• Egypt’s national plan to fight atheism. Ishak Ibrahim
• Law to hush up NGOs. Ahmed Ezzat
• Higher tolls ‘risky’ after $4bn Suez Canal extension. Ben Flanagan

Good Read

• From the Mosque to the Polls: The emergence of Al-Nour Party in Post-Arab Spring Laurence Deschamps-Laporte
• Egypt’s western security concerns. Eric Trager and Gilad Wenig
• Moral policing and prosecuting religious belief in Egypt. Allison McManus and Nancy Okail
• Egypt -Saudi ties: What is in store? Dina Ezzat
• Who won the Gaza war? Aaron David Miller

Plus

• Daniela Deane about the death of her journalist husband in Egypt

Photo Gallery

• The Suez Canal: A century and half of Egyptian history