(Sisi speaks after major power outage – AFP Photo )

Main Headlines

 Monday

• Azhar University considers closing down dorms to avoid violence
• Security forces coerce detainees into ending hunger strike
• Gov’t committee calls for dissolution of Jama’a al-Islamiya’s political party
• Constitution Party head Shukrallah says it won’t ally with old regime
• Egypt says will open Gaza crossing only if Palestinian Authority troops guard it
• Egypt slams Israeli plan to seize Palestinian land

Tuesday

• An explosive kills 11 policemen in North Sinai
• 9 people were killed in a stampede outside a military academy in Egypt
• Egypt to borrow $1.4 billion from local banks to pay foreign oil debts
• Egypt’s April 6 demands release of members who were arrested Monday
• Muslim Brotherhood top lawyer Abdel-Maqsoud is released pending trial
• Government begins reviewing bids for renewable energy projects
• Egyptian cotton exports decrease by 69.7%

 Wednesday

• US approves Apache deal and military cooperation with Egypt
• Egyptian court closes down Al Jazeera Mubasher Egypt for prejudiced reporting
• University Students vow to return for more protests despite security threats
• Egypt Police arrest journalist who allegedly filmed a video of an alleged anti-police group
• Egypt religious authority calls for ban on “obscene” belly dancing show
• Awqaf Ministry invests LE400 million in new Suez Canal project
• Prominent leftist politician Abul Ezz El-Hariri dies at 70

Thursday

• Major power outage hits Cairo and other governorates
• Minister of electricity apologized for power cut
• Up to 90 % of power is restored, says electricity company chief
• Egypt jihadist group claims deadly Sinai bombing
• Egypt’s El-Sisi to meet Ethiopian PM in New York
• Wafd Party to seek difficult parliamentary majority
• Egyptian activists Mona Seif and Laila Soueif join an ongoing hunger strike
• Administrative Court refuses Amr Hemzaway’s request to have his name removed from the list of people banned from traveling. (Arabic)

 Friday

• Egypt re-assesses anti-militant tactics as Sinai militants change strategies
• Seven electricity transformers set ablaze in Giza
• 4 are arrested for power station “sabotage” plot
• A conscript was beaten to death by his supervising officer at a Central Security Forces camp in Sinai
• Police forces dispersed pro-Brotherhood protests in Alexandria
• Delegation meets Mehleb to press forAl- Jazeera journalists’ release
• NCHR demands medical supervision of hunger striking activists

Saturday

• President Sisi says no magic bullet for power problems after major blackout
• Egypt charges ex-president Morsi with passing state secrets to Qatar
• Egypt’s El-Sisi forms advisory council of experts
• Egypt’s interior ministry denies torturing North Sinai conscript
• Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy applies to marry fiancée in prison
• 7 arrested in Egypt for homosexuality
• Suez Canal certificates on sale for second day

Sunday

• President Abbas ‪ begins 3-day visit to Egypt
• ISIS must be ‘uprooted’: Egypt’s Endowments ministry
• Dead police conscript ‘was beaten’: Egypt’s forensic authority
• Egypt to launch fight against corruption
• Families and friends of Egypt’s political prisoners begin gradual hunger strike
• Water minister to visit Ethiopia mid-September
• Cairo University steps-up security measures
• Sabahy’s popular current collects signatures to form party

 Good reports

• The power generation crisis in Egypt. Akram Ismail
• Thousands of Egyptians evicted without compensation for Suez Canal project . Patrick Kingsley
• Renewable energy is Egypt’s raft out of crisis. Marwa Hussein
• Egyptian cops are using Grindr to hunt gays. Conor Sheils
• Egypt religious body: Suspend belly-dancing show. Maggie Michael
• This video shows what street harassment is like for women in Egypt. Miriam Berger
• Under pressure, Sinai jihadists threaten more beheadings. Al-Monitor3

 Good read

• Why is Washington so angry with UAE and Egypt over Libya bombing? Middle East Briefing
• Leading members released: A new beginning for the Brotherhood? Dina Ezzat
• Egypt’s media and the normality of broadcasting your phone-calls. Mohamed Selim
• Will the Muslim Brotherhood resurface under new umbrella? Marwa Al- A’sar

 Plus: 

• The 21 most miserable countries in the world.
• Prominent ongoing court cases. Mai El-Sadany
• Egypt’s 2013 illiteracy rate is 25.9%: CAPMAS

Interview

• ‘Building a strong parliament essential for bringing about normalised democracy’: Nick Harvey

Video

• Tackling Egypt’s economic dilemma. Atlantic Council

Photo Gallery

• Funeral of soldiers murdered in Rafah