( Amal Clooney, photo via Thanassis Stavrakis/Pool/Getty)

Main Headlines

Monday 

• Sisi: Wide-scale governors’ reshuffle in January
• Al Jazeera journalists mark 1 year anniversary of imprisonment in Egypt
• Australian FM: Hopes dim Egypt to release Australian Al Jazeera journalist soon
• North Sinai governor says Gaza buffer zone to increase to 5km ‪
• Egypt and Algeria to sign gas import agreement
• Court bans Jewish festival in Egypt

Tuesday

• Seven Egyptian Christians reported kidnapped in Libya
• Egypt to begin expanding Gaza buffer zone next week
• Kafr El-Sheikh court acquits 70 pro-Morsi supporters ‪
• Egypt to reduce foreign diplomatic spending
• Egypt’s current account recorded a $1.4 billion deficit in July-Sept quarter
• 2 transgender women arrested on prostitution charges

Wednesday

• An Egyptian court to consider Al-Jazeera journalists’ appeal on Thursday ‪
• Libya commissions ‘independent figures’ to communicate with the kidnappers of Egyptians
• Army kills 13 “terrorists” during raids in Sinai
• Foreign ministry is working hard to reach abductors of Egyptians in Libya
• Sisi to visit Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, and Ethiopia in January
• Court clears 4 arrested for protesting Mubarak’s acquittal
• Egypt pays $2.1bln to foreign energy firms
• 2 transgender women arrested in Cairo on prostitution charges

 Thursday

• Egypt’s highest court orders retrial of Al-Jazeera journalists
• Peter Greste’s family says Al-Jazeera retrial is a positive step
• El-Sisi visits General Intelligence Service Headquarter
• Nour Party cannot fund candidates in parliamentary poll
• 4 charged with illegal protesting against Mubarak verdict were acquitted
• RPG attack on security checkpoint in North Sinai
• Egypt: two new bird flu cases brings brings total to 29 in 2014

 Friday

• Egyptian troops kill Palestinian youth ‪as he tries to cross illegally from the Gaza strip
• Moroccan diplomats playdown TV report about Egypt’s coup
• Egyptian police arrest student for allegedly contacting IS
• Two jailed Jazeera journalists seek deportation from Egypt
• Police disperse pro-Brotherhood protests in Cairo
• BG Group receives $350 million payment from Egypt 
• Abuse, neglect killed more than 100 detainees in 2014

 Saturday

• Thirteen Egyptian Christians were kidnapped in Libya
• Egypt considers providing transport home for Libyan-based Copts after kidnappings
• Presidential pardon for Protest Law detainees expected is expected
• Egypt’s budget deficit hits LE 107,9 billion in 5 months
• Hamas condemns alleged shooting of Gazan by Egyptians
• Israeli jailed in Egypt freed after two years

 Sunday

• Egypt says lawyer Amal Clooney is not banned from entering the country
• Gulf aid to Egypt has declined by 98% in 5 months of 2014/15
• Brotherhood assets’ committee confiscates assets of 112 persons including 4 not affiliated with the Brotherhood
• Activists to challenge freeze on the assets
• 16 Brotherhood members were arrested in Giza
• Egyptian attorney convicted in bombing of US embassies wants to return to his family
• Egyptian conscript dies in a fire in a central security camp
• Osiris tomb discovered in Luxor

 Good Reports

• Egypt warned Amal Clooney that she risked arrest. Patrick Kingsley
• Egypt keeps Salafist imams out of pulpits ahead of elections. Walaa Hussein
• Reporters’ families face long wait for justice. Sherine Tadros
• Turmoil in Egypt takes its toll on mental illness. Laura Dean
• 2014: A year of memorable statements. Pesha Magid

 Good Read

• Egypt cautiously steps into Syria and Libya morass. Dina Ezzat
• Amal Clooney Egypt’s court. Christopher Dickey
• Banning Exodus: The Skulls of Flinders Petrie. Magid Atiya]
• Erdogan’s Egyptian nightmare. Burak Bekdil
• Egyptian Chronicles: Sisi leaks – Episode 2. Zeinobia

Interview

• Egyptian state at risk without reform in 2015, warns Amr El-Shobaki

Video

• Sisi calls for a revolution in religion . Arabic

 Plus

• Infograph: Egypt 2014 in numbers
• A timeline of the Al-Jazeera trial
• Q&A: Egypt’s upcoming parliamentary poll
• Egypt was the best destination for stock market investors

Finally, here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt

Happy New Year 2015