(A house was blown up during a military operation to create a buffer zone in Rafah)

(via AFP)

Main Headlines

 Monday

• New law refers crimes against “vital” facilities to military prosecution
• Alaa Abdel-Fattah, 23 others have been detained on the first day of protest law retrial
• Deputy minister accuses civil society organizations of receiving funds from embassies
• Egypt will not renew transit-trade agreement with Turkey
• UAE firm set to produce 300,000 tonnes of wheat in Egypt’s Toshka
• Egypt withdraws application to host African Cup of Nations 2015 over Ebola fears

Tuesday

• Egypt places civilian infrastructure under military jurisdiction
• Egypt orders evacuation along Gaza border to thwart militants
• North Sinai residents begin evacuation
• Danish NGO officials is deported from Egypt over ‘suspicious training’
• School, university students ‘saboteurs’ to be tried by military courts
• US urges Egypt to quickly complete its review of the demonstration law
• 5 Syrian refugees to face deportation from Egypt
• Sisi applauds Saudi Arabia for its support of Egypt post-June 30

Wednesday

• El-Sisi calls for ‘prompt compensation’ for Sinai’s evacuees
• Egypt to hurt its economy by canceling trade agreement: Turkish Foreign Ministry
• Family of jailed activist Abdel-Fattah begins sit-in at High Court
• Police disperse students protest outside Azhar University ‪
• NCHR condemns police search of member’s house
• Egypt slips in press freedom index
• Greece, Egypt, Cyprus urge Turkey to quit gas search off the Island
• Egypt, South Sudan agree to joint mechanisms to run water resources

Thursday

• Former Egypt intelligence officer gets 1 year in prison for revealing ‘secrets’
• Three jihadists were killed in Sinai, six tunnels were destroyed
• ‪Egypt bans pro-Morsi pressure group
• Interior Ministry denies raiding home of human rights worker
• Salafi leader Borhamy attacks Pope Frances for recognizing Darwin’s theory
• Egypt, Sudan argue over Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam

 Friday

• 7 military personnel have been injured in an attack in North Sinai
• US: Egypt has right to build a Gaza buffer zone
• Egyptian presidency has formed four specialized advisory committees
• Egyptian activist Mahienour El-Massry receives international rights award
• Egyptian security forces arrested eight Brotherhoods’ protestors in Alexandria
• Molotov cocktails‪ thrown at police station in Giza; no damage
• Pharoah Thutmosis-era temple found by accident in Egypt

 Saturday

• Egypt jails eight men over “gay marriage’
• Three injured when bomb explodes under a bridge near downtown Cairo
• “Terrorist cell” affiliated to ‪Islamic State fighters is arrested
• Morsi’s presidential spokesman sentenced to 6 month in prison
• Former Gaddafi spokesman expelled from Egypt
• IMF to hold consultations with Egypt

Sunday 

• Egypt’s government pledges to fire Imams promoting radical thought in North Sinai
• El-Sisi praises Egyptian media’s ‘understanding’, defends protest law
• Interim Justice Minister in UN to hear questions over human rights in Egypt
• Egyptian journalists defy editors on freedoms
• Cairo University professor briefly detained over Rabaa T-shirt claim
• Egypt’s FM arrives in Ethiopia for diplomatic session

 Best Reports

• Egypt’s security: Threat and response. The Tahrir Institute
• Unfriendly regimes, but stable. Egypt’s regional choice. Dina Ezzat
• Egypt’s war on terror takes over security, law, foreign policy and media. Mada Masr
• Protest is muted as Egypt levels border area in Sinai. Kareem Fahim
• Living under curfew: Arish transforms into a ghost town. Omar Ryad
• Why are migrants choosing Alexandria? Orla Guerin
• Why does Egypt keep burning its farm waste? Mariam Rizk

Good Read

• An urbanist’s guide to Cairo. Mohamed Elshahed
• Why democracy took root in Tunisia and not Egypt. Freed Zakaria
• Egypt’s economy: Bringing the state back in. Steven Cook
• Searing saw: Amr Khalifa
• Sinai’s problems must be handled with great care. H. A Hellyer
• An excluded population. Hilary Gilbert
• Egypt’s long history of activist artists. Sultan Al-Qassemi
• Europe, and the Islamic State within. Alfred Raouf

Plus

• Google celebrates Lotfia El-Nadi, Egypt’s female aviator

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt