(Sunday’s football match riots. Photo via AP)
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egypt court sentences 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death
- Al-Jazeera journalist Fahmy’s release from Egypt jail is imminent
- Greste speaks of ‘angst’ over colleagues in Egyptian jail
- British foreign secretary calls for release of journalists, political detainees in Egypt
- Egypt offers year long free public transportation to bomb informers
- Egypt prosecutor detains officer who killed injured terror suspects
- Russian delegation arrives in Egypt
- Noble Energy team in Egypt for talks on importing Israeli gas
- Ancient artifacts found floating in an irrigation canal in Minya
- New alliance combines Egypt’s Wafd, Conference, Ghad and Tagamoa parties
Tuesday
- El-Sisi calls the killing of the Jordanian pilot a savage act
- Cairo airport is on alert after bombs were found
- Australian PM thanks El-Sisi for deporting jailed journalist Greste
- Homemade bomb explodes in Cairo, airport has been put on high alert
- Doctors Syndicate to investigate doctors who endorsed army’s hepatitis C device
- Egypt asks European governments to stop broadcasting Brotherhood-linked TV channels
Wednesday
- Egypt court: Activist Ahmed Douma among 230 sentenced to life in prison
- Ex-presidential candidate’s opposition party to boycott parliamentary election
- Russian president Putin to visit Egypt
- Egypt condemn Turkey’s comments on the ‘Kerdasa Trial’ verdict
- Egypt summons Turkish diplomat over statement against judiciary
- Egypt, US discuss regional security
Thursday
- Egypt will interfere militarily if Yemen’s Bab Al-Mandab strait is blocked
- Sisi founds new councils for national security
, education, scientific research and foreign policy
- Gulf states to deposit
$10 billion in Egypt before the investment conference
- One killed in an attack on a restaurant attack north of Cairo
- Presidency: Seventeen new governors to be sworn on Saturday
- Egypt, Norway urge donors to pay $5.4 billion aid that was pledged for Gaza
- 301 were detained on protest charges
- Gaza militants condemn Egypt’s branding of Hamas’s military wing as a terror group
- Egypt imposes new limits on US dollar cash deposits
in fight against Black market
Friday
- Egyptian military air strikes kill 27 Islamic militants in Northern Sinai
- Egypt’s Foreign Ministry slam reactions against recent life sentences
- Civilian shot dead at a security check point in Northern Sinai
- France and Egypt are negotiating Rafale fighter jet deal
- Three small bombs explode in Egypt’s 6 October city
- Police disperse pro-Morsi protests in Matareya and Alexandria
- Egyptian jailed in US over embassy bombing in Africa
- Egypt slams unacceptable foreign criticism of mass jailing
- ‘Imperialist powers’ behind chaos in region: Egypt’s minister of religious endowment
Saturday
- Egyptian military kills 47 militants in Northern Sinai
- Dostour party to abstain from participating
in upcoming elections
- Amal Clooney wants to meet El-Sisi over jailed journalist
- Egyptian court to consider lawsuit against Turkey
- K. rebuffs Egypt’s calls to close London -based pro Brotherhood media
- Egypt’s energy reforms spark rush of oil and gas deals
- Improvised bomb kills one, injures four east of Alexandria
Sunday
- 25 people killed in Egyptian soccer match riot
- The first retrial session for Al-Jazeera journalists will be held on February 12
- Detained Al-Jazeera journalist refuses to give up Egyptian nationality
- Saudi King receives phone call from the Egyptian President El-Sisi
- Egyptian court sentences on charges for spying for Al-Qaeda
- Egypt’s Mubarak-era steel-tycoon Ahmed Ezz to run for parliament
- 4 new cases found to be positive with bird flu in Egypt
- French defence minister confirms confirm Rafale talks with Egypt
Good Reports
- Peter Greste returns to Australia with pledge to fight on for fellow captives. Patrick Kingsley
- Sinai: The challenges ahead Dina Ezzat
- How Cairo is taking the fight to Sinai’s militants. Reuters
- Sinai attacks underscore uphill battle against Egypt’s Jihadists. AFP via the Middle East Institute
- Violence-struck Matariya’s residents want peace. Osman El-Sharnoubi
- Latest Sinai attack whips up nationalist fervor in Egypt. Youssef Hamza
- TIMEP’s Legislation Tracker. The Tahrir Institute
- Egypt: trial Searching for justice. Claire Read
Good Read
- Life sentence for Douma: The Latest story of justice denied Mai El-sadany
- Egypt and the falling standards of accountability. H.A. Hellyer (from Feb 9)
- Jihadist escalation leaves civilians more threatened in Egypt. Sherif Tarek
- The Decline of Coptic activism in Egypt. Jayson Casper
Plus
- Who are Egypt’s new governors. Egypt Source
- Umm Kalthoum 40 years later
Video
- Riot broke out at major soccer game near Cairo
Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers in Egypt
Reblogged this on Mark Geoffrey Kirshner.
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