Main Headlines 

 Monday 

• Canadian Embassy in Cairo follows British Embassy in security shutdown
• Al- Qaradawi denies charges in Interpol’s arrest warrant
• Turkish president Erdogan criticizes Egypt for Interpol bid on Muslim scholar
• 33 men arrested in night-time police raid on a Cairo bathhouse for alleged debauchery
• TV host collaborates with police in Cairo’s bathhouse raid
• Political movements and parties reject Aymen Nour’s call for reconciliation
• Award-winning Palestinian cinematographer is denied entry to Egypt

Tuesday

• Military prosecution to investigate alleged SCAF ‘leaks’
• Qatar joins Gulf monarchies in supporting Egypt’s Sisi
• Egypt’s cabinet to discuss a new draft law on parliamentary constituencies
• Egypt’s Sisi reduces curfew hours in North Sinai
• BP to invest $12 billion in Egypt over 5 years

Wednesday

• Embassies remain tight-lipped amid heightened security
• Egypt imposes travel restrictions for Turkey and Libya
• Egyptian rights group partially relocates abroad amid constant threats against civil society
• Egypt’s Gamaa Islamiya considers exiting pro-Morsi bloc
• Egypt’s inflation slows to 9.1% in November
• Egypt’s government to spend LE1.8 billion on pension raises
• Leading British Muslim group urges Qatar not to transfer Al-Qaradawi to Egypt

 Thursday

• Egypt’s Sisi marks first visit to Amman
• Egyptian cabinet approves the electoral constituency law ‪
• Egypt’s army kills a dozen ‘militants’ amid ongoing raids in Sinai
• Former Morsi minister of information sentenced to 10 years in prison
• Ministry of Endowments warns against Baha’i threat
• Hamza Namira releases his complete album on you-tube
• denies politics behind decision to pull out of swimming championship in Qatar

 Friday

• Egypt court to hear appeal against acquittal verdict in FGM death case
• Senior British MP defends Cairo embassy closure as “sensible precaution”
• Abbas backs Egypt’s crackdown on Gaza tunnels
• Friday protests against Mubarak acquittal turn violent in Helwan
• Pro-Morsi protestor hospitalised following clashes in Kafr el-Sheikh
• Egypt’s wheat to suffice until April
• Egyptian woman dies of H5N1 bird flu, total now is eight

 Saturday

• Local authorities denies a US academic and former diplomat entry to Egypt
• 439 referred to ‪ military judiciary over post-Rabaa dispersal violence
• Army kills more ‘terrorists’ in Sinai
• Islamist Nour Party to include women and Copts in electoral list
• CSF soldier commits suicide under the metro wheels
• Salaries of heads of tribes in South Sinai to be raised

 Sunday

• Extremist group Agnad Masr says is not affiliated to ISIS
• 2 policemen killed in shooting on Arish police station
• Report: Egypt’s president thwarted deal to return IDF soldiers killed in Gaza war 
• Pro-Brotherhood protest dispersed at Bani Suef University
• Human rights will be the cornerstone of Egyptian police
• Lawyer calls for Catherine Ashton’s testimony in Morsi espionage trial
• Bahraini FM: Efforts to restore Cairo-Doha ties have made great strides
• France to fund new trains for Egypt’s metro

Good reports

• Egypt’s new terrorism law. Ryan J. Suto
• Egypt’s atheists number 866 – precisely. Patrick Kingsley
• A lonely fight defending Egypt’s jailed dissidents. Hamza Hendawy
• Egypt’s rights groups view report on CIA torture with weary familiarity Jared Malsin
• Congress will allow Obama to resume military aid to Egypt. Julian Pecquet
• 95% of Cairo women have been sexually harassed, says survey. Mada Masr

 Good Read

• Egypt is sad, but is sad, still hard to read. Rami Khouri
• Egypt mediocrity and suspension of disbelief. Weal Eskandar
• Sinai Bedouin: A causality of circumstances. Rami Aziz. With a reply by Marion Meulenbroek
• Is the US- Egypt special relationship over? Interview with Steven Cook

 Video

• Inside Cairo’s Hanging Church after 16-years renovation

Photo Gallery

• The Venice of Egypt Photos by Amr Dalsh for Reuters

 Plus:

• Press release: Carnegie Scholar Denied Entry into Egypt
• Egypt is among 11 countries most likely most likely to see political violence in 2015
• The 15 most powerful militaries in the Middle East Business Insider
• Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour dies at 68

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt