Top News

• Egypt appoints Brotherhood critics as Justice minister (Wednesday)
• Egypt’s militants’ vows to attack judges (Thursday)
• Egypt to host 2016’s World Economic Forum (Friday)
• IMF criticizes Egypt’s decision to delay capital gain tax (Sunday)

 Main Headlines

 Monday

• Conscript is injured in attack on checkpoint near Ismailia
• Bombing of electricity pylon cuts power to 14 villages in Upper Egypt
• Egypt’s market achieved its biggest gain as government has suspended capital gain tax
• Egypt’s death sentences US, UN, and Turkey
• ONtv’s Sawiris rebuts TV presenter Reem Maged’s claims on the ban of her show

Tuesday

• Egypt ‘s justice ministry rejects foreign comments on Morsi’s death sentence
• Egypt plays down cancelation of meeting with president of German parliament
• Egypt’s opposition urges Sisi to prioritize their proposed election reforms
• Civilian shot dead, another wounded in Sinai
• An Egyptian civilian court resumed the trial of 213 alleged members of Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis

Wednesday

• Egypt appoints Brotherhood critic as Justice Minister
• Egypt’s Defense Minister receives Head of US Central Command
• Egyptian editor arrested over ‘false reporting’ is released on bail
• Egypt’s Suez Canal revenues rise to $422 million in April
• Administrative Court rules to ban access to porn websites
• Belly dancer is acquitted of offending Mortada Mansour

Thursday

• Egypt’s militants vow to attack judges
• 8 suspected militants were killed in clashes with security forces in Sinai’s Al-Arish
• Sisi to attend World Economic Forum’s MENA summit in Jordan
• Wafd Party: Morsi is a traitor who deserves to be executed
• Egypt’s journalists syndicate files complaint over editor’s detention
• Sisi discusses jihadi terrorism with Austrian FM
• Police conscript was killed in fire exchange in Sharqiya
• Egypt‪ permits private sector to import natural gas

 Friday

• Egypt to host 2016 World Economic Forum on MENA
• Egypt describes IS assault on Saudi Arabian mosque as “brutal terrorism”
• Conscript abducted and killed by militants in Sinai
• Egypt criticizes anti-Sisi comments from the president of the German parliament
• ‘Revolutionary Punishment’ group claims responsibility for the murder of police officers in Fayoum.
• Egypt makes record annual purchase of domestic wheat
• Interior Ministry halts plans to re-open Sadat metro station

 Saturday

• A court in Cairo acquitted 17 members of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party of charges of breaking the protest law.
• An Egyptian court postpones verdict in appeal to Hamas “terrorist” designation
• Egyptian FM meets his Algerian counterpart over the Libyan crisis
• Egypt to host a second Syrian opposition conference in June
• Opposition to issue unified reports on Sisi’s one year in power
• 61 alleged members of the Muslim Brotherhood were referred to military court
• Omar Sharif is suffering from Alzheimer’s

Sunday

• IMF Criticizes Egypt’s decision to delay capital gain tax
• Arab military chiefs struggle over details of anti-terrorism coalition
• Six suspected militants killed in clashes with security forces in North Sinai
• Egypt‪ court sentences Brotherhood member to death in absentia
• Egypt FM: Foreign countries won’t participate in Libyan tribal leaders forum
• Egypt to open Rafah crossing into Gaza for two days ‪
• Arabtec’s share price is down 3.32% on uncertainty relating to developer’s planned Egypt exposure.
• Egyptian policeman is sentenced to life for raping a mentally ill minor
• A court case to drop Egyptian citizenship of Erdogan’s son Bilal is postponed to October 11 (Arabic)

Good reports

• Stifling Egyptian civil society: Sexual violence by security forces surges under El-Sisi. The International Federation for Human Rights
• New military company is established with wide mandate. Mada Masr
• Egyptian judges are the new frontline in the battle against militancy. Yara Bayoumy and Haitham Ahmed
• Mixed reactions on Egypt’s new justice minister Mariam Rizk
• Lessons in morality from Egyptian media personalities and TV hosts. Heba Afify
• Egypt’s Copts praise Sisi but await more tangible support. Stephen Kalin
• Q&A: Capital punishment in Egypt. Zeinab el-Gundy

Good read

• Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood gets a facelift. Eric Trager and Marina Shalabi
• Egypt’s president has secured investment but not yet fixed the economy. The Economist
• Egypt’s Sisi is getting pretty good … at being a dictator. Thanassis Cambanis
• Sinai Tribes: Between the Egyptian State and the Islamic State. Zack Gold
• Egypt’s capital mirage. Lorena Rios

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• The legacy of Cairo’s famous Café Riche is on the line.

Photo Gallery

• Egyptian street dog whose puppies were murdered finds home abroad‪
• Cairo’s Manial house and musuem