Main Headlines

 Monday

• Egypt the condemns killing of Ethiopian Christians by IS
• Court sentences 22 to death over Kerdasa violence
• Defense team: Morsi could receive death sentence in Tuesday’s verdict
• IED kills three policemen in North Sinai
• Bomb injures 6 in Cairo’s Matariya
• Pope Tawadros says Armenia visit is not political
• A Cairo court says has ‘no jurisdiction’ to label April 6 group as terrorist
• No daylight saving in Egypt this summer
• Armenian belly dancer Sofinar is sentenced to 6 months in prison for insulting the Egyptian flag

Tuesday

• ‪Egyptian court sentences ousted President Morsi to 20 years in prison
• S. is concerned’ by sentencing of Egypt’s Morsi
• Egypt’s FM visits Saudi Arabia
• Egypt’s administrative prosecution to investigate book burning incident
• A barge capsized in Egypt dropping tons of phosphate into the Nile
• Renowned Egyptian poet Abdel-Rahman El-Abnoudi dies at 76

Wednesday

• Arab army commanders heads meet in Cairo to discuss forming a joint Arab force
• Egypt receives $6 billion from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait
• Egypt’s parliamentary election will not be held before Ramadan
• Egyptian tycoon Sawiris testifies in favor of Al-Jazeera journalist Fahmy ‪
• Two policemen were shot dead by gunmen in Cairo
• Egypt press syndicate for appeal to Morsi’s verdict
• Sudanese court preliminarily sentences Egyptian fishermen for breaching waters

Thursday

• Sisi: Egypt’s security is linked to the Gulf states and the wider region
• Sisi and his Greek counterpart discuss terrorism
• Sisi approves $500 million World Bank loan to expand natural gas grid
• Brotherhood official says group underwent broad restructuring ‪
• Shell falls on North Sinai house, killing one civilian
• The controversial talk show “With Islam” will be pulled off air at al-Azhar’s request
• Egyptian FM in New York to campaign for Security Council’s seat

Friday

• Intl Commission of Jurists calls on Egypt to investigate deaths of lawyers in custody
• Smuggled treasures repatriated to Egypt from the U.S.
• Call for Saturday vigil in solidarity with ‪al-Masry el-Youm journalists is referred to prosecution
• 3 IEDs in Matareya tramway injure 2 children
• Prosecution denies another lawyer died of torture in Matariya

 Saturday

• Egypt’s El-Sisi extends North Sinai curfew for another 3 months
• Latin and Caribbean supports Egypt’s membership in the U.N.’s Security Council
• Four Egyptian militants were killed while making bombs
• Hala Shukrallah’s term as Constitution Party leader is officially over
• Man dies in Sharqiya, Egypt from suspected water poisoning
• No connection between Egypt’s Nile phosphate accident and poisoning cases
• New genetic mutations in Egypt’s bird flu

 Sunday

• Mubarak: Egyptians should stand behind their president Sisi
• Resident calls North Sinai curfew extension pointless
• 8 still being treated, 752 discharged from hospital in Egypt’s mass poisoning
• Lawsuit to rescind Wael Ghoneim’s citizenship accusing is referred to State Commissioners.
• Official Egyptian delegation leaves for Qatar to attend aviation conference
• Egypt leads immigration, trafficking agreement between Europe and Africa
• ‘Human life has become cheap’: Al-Ahram
• Sexual harassment in university campuses is endemic

Good Reports

• Sisi’s crackdown on Islamists yet to win over an Egyptian village. Michael Georgy
• Egypt strikes Islamic texts from schools, angering Salafi. Ayah Aman
• Egypt’s religious book burning backfires. Rami Galal
• Cycles of violence in Matareya in Matariya. Mai shams El-Din
• More media coverage to police’s misconduct in Egypt. Zeinobia
• Egypt’s ‘hanging judge’ accused of politicized verdicts. Borzou Daragahi
• In Egypt, reforms seek to revive the natural gas sector. Stratfor
• Ending Egypt’s currency black market brings new challenges. Reuters

Good Read

• Egypt’s foreign policy worries mount after the crisis in Yemen. Dina Ezzat
• In Sisi’s Egypt, Blasphemy is still a crime. Hazel Haddon
• Egypt’s silent revolution. Koert Debeuf
• Wilayat Sinai is likely preparing for a car bomb campaign. Jantzen Garnett and Aaron Reese

 On Morsi’s verdict 

• Itihadiya: A deserved sentence for a huge crime. Khalid Okasha
• Morsi’s trial is badly flawed. HRW

 From Twitter

https://twitter.com/hahellyer/status/592018884808601600

Video

• CNN’s Amanpour interview with Egyptian writer Mona Eltahawy
• AlJazeera interviews new head of the Muslim Brotherhood outside Egypt. Arabic
• Armenians gather at church in Cairo to commemorate victims of the Armenian Genocide

 Photo Gallery

• A small group of artists is racing to sketch every historic building in Alexandria. Max Siegelbaum
• Street vendors removed from Ramsis square

Obituary

• Abdel-Rahman El-Abnoudi, the last side of the Egyptian poetry triangle.

Plus

• Omar Samra becomes 1st Egyptian to climb the 7 summits, visit both North and South Pole
• 14,403 road accident in Egypt in 2014

Finally, here are Jayson’s Casper’s prayers for Egypt.