Main Headlines

Monday

• Policeman was killed in an attack at checkpoint in northern Egypt
• Leftist and liberal parties form parliamentary coalition
• Egyptian interior minister says Rabaa will be remembered for police martyrs
• Egypt, Norway to co-host Gaza conference
• Ministry of Endowments vows to confront extremism and atheism
• UK report into Muslim Brotherhood has been delayed
• Rumours of IMF negotiations are untrue: Finance Minister
• Political groups call for corruption investigation against Mubarak
• No limit on new Suez Canal certificates: Egypt’s finance minister

Tuesday

• Cairo talks on Gazamight collapse: Islamic Jihad ‪
• Al-Sisi ‘ is continuing democratic transition’: U.S. State Department deputy spokeswoman
• Egypt calls on American authorities to respect right of protest in Ferguson
• ‪Egyptian army kills 2 militants in North Sinai
• Egypt’s power crisis worsens as outages approach five hours per day –
• Bahrain based Dar Group consortium win general plan for the Suez Canal Project
• Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah goes on hunger strike
• Handmade bomb goes off in Upper Egypt’s Maghagha; no injuries
• Egypt to host Libya neighbors’ talks on August 25

Wednesday

• Washington hits back at Egypt criticism over Missouri unrest
• Decapitated bodies of 4 men were found in Egypt’s Sinai
• Egypt police say they arrested 13 of a new alleged militant group
• Egypt urges “bilateral talks” on new Gaza ceasefire as war resumes
• Egypt’s PM says electricity problem will improve by Sunday
• More detainees join hunger strike as activists start campaign
• Egypt sentences Jordanian engineer to 10 years in jail for espionage
• Egypt’s president ratifies property tax law http://t.co/wuxBWK763t

Thursday

• A targeted explosion wounded six soldiers in Rafah
• Mass trial for killing of police in Kerdasa resumes
• Egypt, Tunisia cancel most flights to Libya
• Jailed Jazeera journalists appeal against their convictions
• Salafi Nour Party chair calls for investigating the dispersal of Rabaa. Arabic
• Marsa Alam incorporated into Luxor governorate in Upper Egypt
• Egyptian blue berets to be sent to Central African Republic, Mali, Darfur
• Nour party supreme commission to meet Saturday to discuss electoral alliances. Arabic

Friday

• Bus accident in Egypt’s South Sinai kills at least 38
• ‪Palestine’s Abbas in Egypt for talks with El-Sisi on Gaza crisis
• Tripartite talks over Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam to resume
• Egypt – Sudan border crossing to be inaugurated in days
• Iran to send aid to Gaza via Egypt ‪
• LE10,000 for families of deceased in South Sinai bus accident
• Woman was killed as Morsi supporters clash with security in east Cairo
• Human Rights Watch report “deliberately misleading”: NCHR

Saturday

• ‪Egypt condemns summary execution of citizen in Libya
• Egypt’s foreign ministry calls on Palestinians, Israelis to begin indirect negotiations
• Abbas reaches agreement with El-Sisi on resumption of peace talks
• Egypt court sentence 5 defendants to death on terrorist charges and church attack
• Egypt’s intellectuals, public figures say no to sectarianism
• Egypt’s FM to travel Ethiopia before Renaissance dam talks
• Death toll of the Sinai bus accident increases to 44
• Egyptian court adjourns Port Said massacre retrial to 21 September

 Sunday

• Egyptian efforts for peace in Gaza are ongoing: FM Shoukry
• El-Sisi is ready to visit Ethiopia, ‘if it is in Egypt’s interest’
• Al-Sisi: Egypt does not export or import gas to and from Israel . Arabic
• Egypt does not support the Syrian regime or opposition: El-Sisi
• One soldier injured and a civilian killed in Sinai
• Egypt’s former presidential spokesman will face legal charges
• Egypt denies airstrikes in Libya
• Britain wants safe, prosperous Egypt: New UK Ambassador

Good Reports

• Militants, weapons transit Gaza tunnels despite Egyptian crackdown. Reuters
• Confrontation in Sinai is not enough: Local leaders. Ahmed Eleiba
• Tensions rise between Sisi and business sector. Ahmed Fouad, translated by Al-Monitor
• Egypt‘s electoral alliances leave leftist forces divided. Gamal Essam el-Din
• Cairo’s street vendors left worried after relocation. Marina Barsoum
• Egyptians are tolerating cuts in subsidies— for now. Mohannad Sabry

Good Read

• ISIS at Egypt’s door. Khaled Dawoud
• Egypt, accusations and a Human Right Watch report. H A Hellyer
• One Year After Morsi’s Ouster, looted Coptic Churches turn into trash dumps. Mina Fayek
• The massacre one year later. Ahmad Shokr
• Taxing time for Egypt’s middle class. Youssef Beshay
• The anatomy of an unfair trial. Amal Alumuddin
• Egypt role in Lebanese mufti’s election. Nasser Chararah

Plus:

• Reading Mahfouz in Michigan. Hadil Ghoneim
• Fiancée of imprisoned Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy speaks out
• Egyptian documentary “The Square” wins three Emmy awards