Main Headlines

 Monday

• Another Egyptian soldier is killed a day after deadly Sinai’s blast
• Mourners flock in Menoufia to funeral for soldier killed in North Sinai ‪
• Egypt condemns Turkey’s comments on latest death sentences to Brotherhood leaders
• Egypt to punish tunnel diggers with life in prison
• Al-Azhar deputy rejects call for women to remove their headscarves
• Two judges were referred to investigation for proposing an anti-torture draft law 
• Saudi Journalist: Time to reconcile with the Brotherhood
• Court to issue verdict on banning on banning Charlie Hebdo in Egypt
• Egyptian universities were excluded from BRICS ranking

Tuesday

• Egypt ‘s Sisi meets Saudi defense minister
• Egypt has not deployed ground troops to Yemen: Military spokesman
• Court ruling allows Interior Ministry to deport homosexual foreigners
• Washington says release of military aid is not an endorsement of Cairo’s human rights record
• Egypt’s education minister to investigate book burning at a Cairo’s schoolyard
• Egypt upholds Islamist ex-presidential candidate’s jail term
• Proposed amendments to Egypt electoral law suggests number allocated to independent candidates to increase
• Power is restored to Egypt media city after nearby bomb attacks

Wednesday

• Egypt, Saudi mull joint exercise amid Yemen air war
• Explosion in Kafr al-Sheikh kills 2 military cadets
• Kuwait deposits $2 billion in Egypt’s Central Bank
• Cabinet revokes Egyptian citizenship of Hamas’s affiliated Palestinian
• New UN site for flights in conflict zones issues warnings on Libya and Egypt
• IMF predicts 4% growth in Egypt’s GDP in 2015
• Islamic State hacks popular Egyptian radio station’s Twitter account
• Egypt’s Bassem Youssef wins new award at New York Festival

Thursday

• Bomb attacks kill soldier, wounds five in Egypt’s Sinai
• Three suspected militants were killed in chase following Sinai’s blast ‪
• Egypt completes dry digging in the new Suez Canal
• Egypt to demolish building of the defunct National Democratic Party
• Morsi’s aide sent to sent to prison for appointing a convicted man at presidency
• Cabinet approves amendments of two parliamentary election laws

 Friday

• Egypt’s top auditor says state institutions are hindering information law
• Preacher Wagdy Ghoneim calls those involved in calls for women to remove their veils “infidels”
• Egyptian police should use ‘non-traditional’ security techniques: Interior minister
• President El-Sisi cheers on Cairo Marathon runners
• Qatar will never relinquish support for Egypt: Qatari FM
• Egypt joins China-based infrastructure bank
• Egypt to prioritize Toshka, Minya, and Western Desert in land reclamation project
• Egypt starts constructing new phase on metro-line

 Saturday

• Egyptian court lists Ansar Beit al-Magdis as a terrorist group
• El-Sisi addresses military cadets days after two were killed by an IED
• Egypt’s FM to meet U.S.’s anti-ISIS envoy
• Third military cadet dies after last week’s Kafr El-Sheikh attack
• Political parties complain of parliament’s record number of 592 seats
• 1460 Egyptians exit from Yemen since airstrikes
• Private TV channel hosts debate with controversial Islamic researcher‪
• Ship collision delays traffic in Suez Canal ‪
• ‪Cairo‪ governorate puts in effect parking ban on 26th of July street

 Sunday

• El-Sisi meets CIA chief Brennan in Cairo
• Egypt’s Morsi faces possible death penalty in first verdict
• Court preliminarily sentences 11 defendants to death for 2012’s Port Said stadium violence
• Archbishop of Canterbury hands letters of condolence to the Coptic Pope
• Egypt’s new administrative capital utilities to cost LE 2 billion
• ‪Arab‪ army chiefs to meet on joint military force
• El-Sisi to visit Cyprus and Spain later in April
• Interior ministry lashes at a critical report
• Egyptian court says ‘lacks jurisdiction’ on Qatar’s terror case
• Egypt sends delegation for the Armenian genocide centennial
• Nour Party to include Christian women on its electoral list

 Good Reports

• Egypt official says she burned books that “corrupt” children. Sarah El-Deeb
• Police in Egypt: Torture, repression and bribes within departments and prisons. Al Masry al-Youm
• Egypt: Scant evidences for mass convictions. HRW
• Bassem Youssef: Comic, Dissident, and Harvard Professor. Nancy Youssef
• Video report: Civilian workers at Egypt’s military production factories demonstrate over pay Arabawy (Arabic)
• 5 controversies around the draft electoral laws. Mada Masr
• Tramadol: Where did the opiate of the masses go? Pesha Magid
• Every year, Egyptians risk their lives by eating this dangerous delicacy. Laura Dean

Good Read

• Muslim Brotherhood: From rapid rise to sharp decline. BBC News
• The War on Egypt’s human rights defenders. Ragab Saad
• Military and police clashes: More than personal conflicts. Mada Masr
• Burning Books in the schoolyards. Zeinobia

Timeline

• Egypt faces near daily attacks. Egypt Source

Interview:

• Egypt’s rights movement: A series of conversations. Mai Shams el -Din

 From Twitter

https://twitter.com/elijahzarwan/status/589076430643929089

Plus

• Meet the feminists changing the world for girls from Kenya to Egypt. The Guardian
• Sexual harassment rates in downtown Cairo declined on Easter
• Two-millenia-old ‪chapel discovered in Cairo’s Matariya

Poll

• Baseera: 90% Egyptians send Christians holiday wishes

 Photo Gallery

• Egyptian pour into parks to celebrate Sham El-Nesim
• Thousands join Cairo runners Heliopolis’s half marathon

Video

• President El-Sisi cautions against individual efforts to ‘renew religious discourse’ says process should b thru state institutions (Arabic)
• Kite surfing in Egypt

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt.