(Funerals have been taking place for those killed in the Sinai attacks – Photo via BBC)

Main Headlines

 Monday

• Egyptian appeals court convicts and sentences doctor in female genital mutilation case
• Egyptian police arrested 516 in anniversary’s unrest
• IS affiliate in Egypt claimed the killing of a police officer
• Bomb was defused in Cairo’s City Stars
• Democratic Current demands sacking of Interior Minister
• Sons of deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak were released from prison

Tuesday

• Shaimaa El-Sabagh died from 3 birdshot wounds
• Egyptian prosecutors to examine social media videos of El-Sabagh killing
• Egyptian court upholds jail sentences against 3 prominent activists
• Egypt’s market hits new six-year record after pound devaluation
• Bombing in Upper Egypt and Nile Delta
• Militant killed by own bomb in Alexandria
• Turkey ‘strongly condemns’ Egypt over crackdown on Jan.25 protests

 Wednesday

• Egypt boycotts an AU meeting on Libya over the participation of Qatar and Turkey
• Nine were injured in an explosion at a check point in Qalioubiya
• Court rejects Tamarod’s appeal to form a political party
• Foreign Ministry: Global reports on January 25 anniversary “are inaccurate”
• Egypt’s FM: African Union endorses Egypt’s bid for Security Council
• Incitement flares between TV anchor and Islamist preacher
• Egypt’s Grand Mufti defends the arrest of Brotherhood supporters

 Thursday 

• President El-Sisi heads to Addis Ababa
• Women rally in Cairo to demand investigation into protestor deaths ‪
• Egypt’s central bank widens bands in which banks can trade dollars
• Egyptian pound falls most in two years to 7.56 a dollar in push to end black market
• Qatari Diar gets green light for $2.16 billion Egypt construction projects
• Writer Fatima Naoot’s trial for Islam defamation has started
• Smuggled ancient Egyptian artifacts were seized in Spain

 Friday

• At least 26 killed, more than 100 wounded in a series of militant attacks in North Sinai
• Sisi cuts short AU visit after Sinai’s attacks
• Islamic State’s ‪Egypt wing claims Sinai’s deadliest attacks in months
• Thousands mourn soldiers who were killed in Sinai’s attacks
• Egyptian military says it will intensify offensive against terrorism in Sinai
• Al-Arish museum is badly damaged by Sinai violence
• S. condemns North Sinai’s attacks
• PM: Right groups must recognize Egypt’s sacrifices in fight against terrorism

 Saturday

• Egypt’s Sisi says battle against jihadists will be a tough one
• Sisi forms a unified military command to combat terrorism in Egypt‘s Sinai
• Traffic employee was shot dead, policeman was injured in North Sinai
• Egyptian court rules Hamas’s armed wing is a “terrorist group”
• Source close to Hamas says the group is no longer accept Egypt as a mediator
• Egyptian court sets May 16 for verdict in Morsi’s espionage trial
• Al-Qaradawi and Qutb books were withdrawn from Cairo International Book Fair ‪Ministry denies interference
• New underground parking opens in Cairo’s Tahrir Square

 Sunday

• Egypt appoints new commander for Third Army
• Egypt releases imprisoned Al-Jazeera reporter Peter Greste
• Journalist Peter Greste left Egypt for his native Australia
• Mother of Jazeera journalist Fahmy asks Sisi to pardon him
• Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy is expected to be released soon
• Sisi pledges billions to develop Sinai in recent attack
• Egypt’s Sisi tells army, police “to be mindful of human rights”
• Parliamentary elections will go ahead despite terrorist attacks
• At least six conscripts injured in attack on security check points in North Sinai
• Egypt seeks end to pro-Brotherhood TV, groups abroad

 Good Reports

• Open Jihad is declared in Egypt following State Department meeting with Muslim Brotherhood-aligned leaders. Adam kredo
• Despite first conviction, female genital mutilation remains common in Egypt. Deena adel
• Egypt: Token reforms fails to end violence against women. Amnesty
• Egypt’s war on atheism. Mona El-Tahawy
• Egypt antiquities showman tells the world it’s safe to visit. Christopher Torchia

Good Read

• Egypt’s Revolution: Understanding what went wrong in four years Amr Hamzawy
• Brotherhood activism and regime consolidation in Egypt. Steven Brooke
• The ISIS-ification of Islamist politics. Khalil al-Anani

Plus:

• Infographic: Violence against women in Egypt
• Egypt: Video Shows police shot woman at protest
• Timeline of anti-government attacks in Egypt

 Poll

• Baseera poll: ‪ 79% to vote in parliamentary elections, 35% approve Islamists’ candidacy

Video

• TV anchor in a Brotherhood’s affiliated TV channel calls for murdering officers in Egypt ( English subtitles)

 Tweet of the Week

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt