( Photo of Cairo clashes in the anniversary of Rabaa via AP)

Main Headlines

 Monday

• HRW to release report on Rabaa, despite denial of staff’s entry into Egypt  –
• Egypt, Saudi Arabia seek united front against Islamist militancy across the Middle East
• Two secular electoral alliances have been formed after Moussa’s withdrawal
• Egypt stresses the need for an end of violence in Libya
• Brotherhood affiliated groups condemn the ban on the Brotherhood’s political wing
• Egypt seeks alternative funds for the Suez Canal project
• Islamist alliance calls for “revolutionary wave”, retribution for Rabaa’s slain

Tuesday

• El-Sisi, Putin stress close ties
• HRW: Rabaa sit-in dispersal “probably” amounted to crimes against humanity
• Egypt Accuses Human Rights Watch of Breaking the Law http://t.co/MQpMqlECan
• Talks on ending Gaza war “difficult”, but truce holds
• Egypt’s top religious authority condemns Islamic State
• Russia to supply Egypt with 5 million tonnes of wheat‫
• Army destroys 5 tunnels, arrests 5 Palestinians attempting to cross Rafah border –
• FM Shoukry discusses Gaza with Western counterparts
• Overdue petroleum debts behind increasing power outages
• Over 50% of Egyptian youth are poor: CAPMAS

Wednesday

• Egypt’s el-Sisi avoids Turkish airspace with huge U-turn
• Egypt, Russia to coordinate in combating terrorism
• Mubarak denies ordering killing of protesters
• Egypt presents proposal to end the war in Gaza
• Egypt orphanage abuse trial begins
• Police clash with students at Cairo University

Thursday

• Egypt’s cabinet approves draft law on genocide
• State officials, party leaders lambaste HRW report on Rabaa dispersal
• Egypt’s legislative reform committee holds its first meeting
• Scattered protests leave six daed, as Egypt marks Rabaa anniversary
• ‪Egypt’s stocks hit nearly 7-year high, despite protests
• ‪EU to pressure Egypt and ‪Turkey on Russia food embargo
• ‪Egypt is content with the way President Sisi was greeted in Russia

Friday

• Egypt’s interior ministry studies video of alleged militia south of Cairo
• Three pro-Morsi protesters killed, one police officer injured in Clashes in Cairo
• Two killed in Cairo’s Mataryia
• Egypt’s new Suez Canal waterway to be funded by investment certificates
• Centamin is optimistic on Egypt as El-Sisi backs investment

Saturday

• Hamas leader says current terms proposed by Egypt for ceasefire have been rejected.
• Egypt’s fact finding mission to present Rabaa report late September
• 5 were killed in Friday’s clashes
• Egypt’s power crisis is worsened by Brotherhood attacks on pylons: Interior ministry
• CPJ condemns attacks on reporters on the first anniversary of Rabaa
• Egyptian police arrest suspect in rape of British citizen ‪
• Egypt’s unemployment drops slightly

Sunday

• Egypt arrests senior member of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis as he entered Sinai from Gaza
• Al-Sisi calls on ‪the U.S. to back Egypt in counter-terrorism
• Interior minister describes Rabaa’s dispersal as “anniversary of martyred policemen”
• Police forces arrest 6 ‘terrorist cells’ over bombing of electricity towers
• Trains to Upper ‪Egypt have been temporarily halted
• Small bomb explodes outside the police academy Cairo’s Abbasiya‪
• Media gag is lifted against Morsi espionage trial
• Egyptian detained activists Alaa and Sanaa allowed to visit their sick father

 Good Reports

• Suez Canal project advances, but many questions left unanswered. Mohamed Ayyad
• Egypt cracks down on human rights groups
• The process of video verification– Rabaa, Egypt, August 14th 2013. Eliot Higgins
• Cairo, Gaza and Israel: The story of negotiations. Ahmed Eleiba

Good read

• The Amputation of Egypt’s Islamists political arm. Tarek Radwan
• The Sisi doctrine. Michael Wahid Hanna
• Voices in and on Rabaa, one year ago in Cairo. H. A. Hellyer
• A stranger in the motherland. Amr Khalifa
• Egyptian icon or traitor? ElBaradei’s legacy. Amr Kotb
• The exceptional Egyptian human rights defender Yara Sallam. Brian Dooley
• Egypt’s proposal, bad for both sides, means the conflict may end with no deal. Avi Issacharoff
• Sisi and Putin: Reshuffling the global deck of cards? Maria Dubovikova

Plus:

• Full text of HRW’s report on mass killings in Egypt.
• Here is the Egyptian government’s English statement responding to HRW’s report on
• Alfred J. Butler, Egypt, and the Copts: Part I. The Middle East Institute
• 15 richest men in Egypt worth over $23bn: Egypt Business Directory
• Controversial Egyptian cartoonist dies at 79
• ‪Egypt’s population to reach 87 million on Tuesday

Photo Heritage

• Alexandria: Coast of passion. Ola R. Seif

Book Review

• Inside The Arab Revolution – a Book By Koert Debeuf. Nehad Ismail