Main Headlines

 Monday

• Prosecutor-general will issue a decision on Mubarak’s release within 48 hours
• Rival groups ‪to protest Mubarak’s verdict this week
• Egypt’s Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis claims killing of US citizen in Western Desert
• Egyptian fighting for Islamic State dies in Kobane, leaves a message
• Egypt court says hunger striking ‪Soltan must remain in jail
• Report: Egypt ‘s private sector is the most corrupt in the world
• Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, raising year total to 6

Tuesday

• Egyptian court sentences 188 people to death over the killing of 11 policemen last year in Kerdasa
• Prosecution files an appeal against Mubarak’s verdict
• Cabinet amends criminal procedures law following Mubarak’s acquittal
• Egyptian cabinet to review new draft of electoral constituencies law
• Egypt thwarts Islamic State-linked bid to hit Israeli targets at sea: Israeli TV
• Turkey says Egypt’s remarks over Erdoğan are unacceptable
• Egypt closes Rafah crossing after stranded Gazans return home
• Six bodies of missingSheikh Zuweid residents found dead

 Wednesday

• Egypt to criminalize ‘insulting revolutions”
• Mubarak can be tried for political crimes, legal experts says
• Mass death sentence questions Egypt’s judicial independence, HRW says
• President intervenes to reinstate suspended radio presenter
• ‪Egypt’s Brotherhood calls for unity with revolution groups
• Political parties affairs committee rejects “Tamarod” political party
• ‪Egypt says firefight did not cross its northeastern border with Israel
• Deputy governor of Egypt’s central bank resigns

 Thursday

• El- Sisi discusses mutual ties, militancy with Saudi Arabia’s head of intelligence
• Two men kidnapped by Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis found dead in North Sinai
• 6 political parties launch petition to try Mubarak and aides
• Egypt revolutionary groups to protest Mubarak verdict on Friday
• Egypt to try 31 people over murders of Shiites in 2013
• Rights group: Draft law on ‘terrorist entities’ could silence civil society
• Schooling resumed in Rafah after 10-day suspension
• Egypt’s Al-Azhar sponsors conference to educate “brainwashed” Arab militants
• Prosecution reviews complaint against celebrities who criticized Sisi

 Friday

• Prosecutor accuses Brotherhood of faking leaked SCAF recording
• US State Department spokesperson caught admitting Egypt talking points are “ridiculous”
• The Salafist Front withdraws from the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy
• Interpol lists Brotherhood ideologue Qaradawi as wanted by Egypt
• New law forbids government employees to talk politics at work
• New law in Egypt forbids government employees to talk politics at work
• Iranian cleric: Increased Iranian-Egyptian anti-terror cooperation is needed

 Saturday

• Egypt court sentences sevens jihadists to death in Sinai’s attack case
• US Navy engineer held for trying to pass data to Egypt
• Mursi’s defence adds alleged SCAF “leaks” to evidence in espionage case ‪
• Police conscript was ‘seriously injured’ by explosion in Sinai’s Rafah
• Ousted president Morsi tells court of post-ouster whereabouts
• Khairat El-Shater’s son-in-law arrested in Cairo on arrival from Qatar
• State-owned banks are to begin distributing first quarterly yields

 Sunday

• UK embassy in Cairo suspends public services for security reasons ‪
• Court refers 4 Brotherhood leaders to grand mufti to consider death penalty
• Hamas leader calls for committee on Egypt’s relations
• Egypt ‪bans travel to Turkey without permit
• ‪Saudi‪ Crown Prince meets Egyptian intelligence chief
• Egypt’s net international reserves down to $15.9 billion

 Best Reports

• The Arab spring idealist who died for ISIS. Borzou Daragahi
• Did Egypt’s Sinai militants err in joining the Islamic State? Louisa Loveluck
• Why everyone walked free in the Mubarak’s trial Mada Masr
• Mixed reports emerge on corruption in Egypt Mada Masr
• Egypt launches campaign for UN Security Council Seat. Ayah Am
• Egyptian Jews: A community in danger of extinction. Dina Darwish

 Good Read

• The Egyptian revolution isn’t dead because it never happened in the first place. Eric Trager
• Imagining a new Arab order. Tarek Osman
• Unreadable Egypt Hussein Ibish
• Mubarak and impunity A. Hellyer
• Mubarak’s Trial: Coda to a revolution. Tamara Cofman Wittes
• Egypt and Gulf security equations. Khaled Okasha

Photo Essay

• Absence: Photo essay for the families of the revolution victims who lost their loved ones

Plus

• Spiderman is exhausted by Cairo

Finally, here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt