(Egypt’s El-Sisi speaks at the United Nation General Assembly, photo via AP)

Main Headline

 Monday

• President El-Sisi is consolidating his regime, says Western diplomats
• UN chief flags rights abuses during meeting with Sisi in New York
• Islamic State urges attacks in Egypt’s Sinai tourist region
• Egypt and Jordan announce support for ” the legitimate institutions” in Libya
• New case against Brotherhood Supreme Guide is referred to criminal court
• Cairo court dismisses lawsuits against Salafi Nour Party, Brotherhood-affiliated alliance
• Prosecutors refer 8 Egyptian men from “gay wedding” video to trial

Tuesday

• Egypt’s President El-Sisi to meet Obama
• El-Sisi calls on developed countries to invest in renewable energy projects in the Middle East
• Egypt amends foreign funding with harsher punishments
• Egypt says Turkey requested a meeting between the two countries’ foreign ministers
• ‪Egyptian forces kill four jihadists in Sinai
• Egypt to receive $1.5 billion in housing, sanitation project funding from the World Bank
• Cairo Court postpones trial for activist Mohamed Soltan and 50 others
• Ethiopia hands Egypt safety studies of its main dam

Wednesday

• President Sisi offered American companies two giant projects in Egypt
• President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi agrees to visit Ethiopia
• Merkel invites Sisi to visit Germany
• No restrictions on Turkish, Qatari investments in Egypt
• Egyptian diplomats owe $2m in unpaid parking tickets to New York City
• Palestinian delegation in Cairo condemns killing of two Palestinians on Tuesday
• UNESCO seeks answer on restoration work carried out at Djoser pyramid
• Professor of Islamic Law Ahmed Karima say his visit to Iran was not related to politics

Thursday

• Obama raised fate of jailed journalists with Egypt’s Sisi
• Egypt’s FM cancels meeting with Turkish counterpart
• ‪Turkey FM dismisses claims that Turkey “insisted” to hold meeting with Egypt
• UAE’s Foreign Ministry denounces Turkish President’s anti-Egypt rhetoric in UN
• Egypt’s Sisi declines to hit back at Erdogan
• Court sentences Egyptian Al-Qaeda operative to life in jail
• Egypt sentences six men convicted of homosexuality to 2 years in jail
• Egypt awards new gas exploration rights to Italy’s ENI

 Friday

• Egyptian police disperse small pro-Muslim Brotherhood protests
• ‪Pro-Morsi coalition criticizes El-Sisi’s UN speech
• Egypt changes clocks for the 4th time in less than 5 months
• Sisi, Zuma discuss stopping weapons, money flow to armed groups | SIS – ‪http://goo.gl/9k0XHi 
• ‪Report: Erdogan‪ boycotted UN lunch to avoid Egypt’s Sisi
• Egyptians spam Erdogan’s Facebook page with with “Viva Sisi”
• Grindr warns Egyptian users as six accused of homosexuality are convicted over Facebook post

 Saturday

• ‪Egypt postpones verdict in case against ex-president Mubarak
• Minor skirmishes outside court following Mubarak’s trial
• Kidnapped man was found dead in Sinai
• Two detained April 6 members join an ongoing hunger strike campaign
• Improvised bomb explodes in Egypt’s Minya
• Presidency is not aware that Turkish delegation withdrew during Sisi’s UN speech
• Judges pauses illegal protest case until constitutional court rules on law

 Sunday

• Source: Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis leader, 17 extremists were killed in North Sinai
• Egyptian police officer is shot dead in north Cairo
• Sisi to address students, professors from Cairo University
• Egyptian court acquits 112 on charges of violating protest law
• Ahmed Douma’s wife denies he ended hunger strike
• Egypt’s FM discusses Security Council seat with Irish, Portuguese counterparts
• Lebanese PM: I mediate between Sisi and Erdogan
• Dubai’s Arabtec says plan for $40 billion Egypt housing scheme is nearly completed

 Good Reports

• President El-Sisi in New York and beyond Dina Ezzat
• LGBT Egyptians go into hiding as regime crackdown. J. Lester Feder
• When prisoners vanish. Sharif Abdel Kouddous
• Egypt raises stakes for dissent with life sentence. Sarah El Sirgany
• Egypt’s Libya strategy is running into to snags. Ahmed Eleiba

Good Read

• ‪Egypt’s hunger strikers Mayy El Sheikh
• What Egypt can and cannot do against the Islamic State. Michele Dunne
• Egypt’s border with Libya, Sudan ripe for Islamic State expansion. Mahmoud Salem
• Jihadi war in Sinai. Yoram Schweitzer
• Egypt’s growing moral panic. El-bab
• Why sexual harassment will not end in Egypt anytime soon. Farah Yousry
• Dying for their beliefs. Magid Atiya

Video

• Egypt’s president addresses the U.N.
• Part of Charlie Rose’s interview with Egypt’s Sisi

Plus:

• The White House readout ( including comments on Obama- Sisi meeting).
• The Working Group on Egypt releases Letter to President Obama ahead of Sisi Meeting
• Ahmed Douma: Two poems

 Poll

• Baseera: 82% of Egyptians approve of Sisi’s performance in first 100 days

 Photo Gallery

• Late Egyptian actor Khaled Saleh’s legacy ‪

Finally, Jayson Casper is back with his prayers for Egypt