German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi shake hands following a news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany June 3, 2015. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Top Headlines 

• Egypt court postpones Morsi death sentence ruling (Tuesday)
• Senior Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested by security forces (Tuesday)
• Egypt’s former president to be retried over killing of protesters (Thursday)
• Egyptian court annuls previous court decision deeming Hamas a terrorist organization (Saturday) 

 Main Headlines

 Monday

• Sisi’s call for a ‘joint electoral list’ receives chilly response
• TV presenter and Islamic researcher was given 5 years imprisonment for blasphemy
• France’s Le Pen hails Egypt’s battle against “extremism”
• Egyptian top Islamic body says that the Islamic State IS maliciously fans sectarianism
• Egyptian political parties to announce results of petition against protest law
• 22 anti-Morsi protesters sentenced to 10-year prison terms in 2013 clashes
• Le Pen’s ‘feelings not changed re immigration’ after meeting with top Sunni cleric in Egypt
• Egypt seizes over 64 million smuggled cigarette packs
• Coptic families are forcibly displaced after attacks in Bani Suef

Tuesday

• Egyptian court postponed issuing a final ruling over a death sentence for Morsi
• Senior Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested early Monday
• Egypt bars rights activist from travelling to Germany
• April 6 group condemns recent statement by Islamic clerical groups urging revenge on ‪Egyptian authorities
• 141 suspected militants killed in North Sinai
• BP to pay some exploration costs for UAE’s Dana Gas in Egypt
• Factory worker killed, 3 more injured in Sinai ‪

 Wednesday

• Sisi defends Egypt’s human rights record during his visit to Germany
• Siemens signs 8 billion euro power deal with Egypt
• Merkel spars with Egyptian leader in a tumultuous press conference
• Two Egypt policemen shot dead near Giza Pyramids
• Egypt should open its border crossing into Gaza: British government
• Two Egypt museum staff was arrested after artifact thefts
• Egyptian lawyers plan strike to protest police assaults

 Thursday

• Egypt’s former president Mubarak to be retried over killing of protestors
• Egypt’s chief of staff meets Greek chief of Hellenic National Defence General Staff
• Egyptian court adjourns Al Jazeera journalists’ retrial to June 11
• Sisi meets a leading German parliamentarian
• Egypt plans to set up two new ministries
• Greste’s charges do not warrant punishment in the Australian law
• After lengthy closure, Cairo’s Tahrir metro station to re-open in days
• Egypt’s Pope cancels weekly sermon after protest in church
• Egypt refused to bribe FIFA to secure 2010 Cup: Former sports minister

 Friday 

• Opening of new Suez Canal waterway to be funded by donations
• Egyptian Al-Qaeda militant once jailed for Sadat assassination has died in hospital
• Sisi meets Hungarian PM or talks on economic cooperation, counter-terrorism
• Sisi says a journalist who shouted abuse at him during a press conference in Berlin is still an Egyptian girl
• Sisi receives honorary PhD from a Hungarian university
• Egypt raises $1.5 billion in its first international bond sale for five years

 Saturday

• Cairo court cancels the verdict designating Hamas a terrorist organization
• Hamas welcomes court ruling to remove it from terrorist list
• Lawyers strike Saturday, syndicate head seeks escalation against police assaults
• Egypt arrests three 6 April members for incitement of civil disobedience
• Russia and Egypt hold joint naval exercise

Sunday

• President el-Sisi issued a rare apology Sunday over a police officer beating a lawyer with a shoe last week
• Egypt, Italy and Algeria call for political solution in Libya
• Cyprus gas field to produce 8 bcm a year with pipeline to Egypt
• Central bank: Egypt’s foreign reserves lose $1 billion at end of May
• Egyptian pound steady at official auction, and on black market

Good Reports

• A year in office, el-Sissi tries to rule Egypt as a one-man show. Hamza Hendawi
• Congress seeks to lift last restrictions on aid to Egypt. Julian Pecquet
• Egyptian football’s ‘magician’ denies funding the Muslim Brotherhood. Jared Malsin
• A balancing act. Miro Guzzini
• Sisi calls for unifying electoral lists. Rami Galal
• Faith security: The new moral anxiety. Heba Afifi
• Egypt’s demography: The too fertile crescent. The Economist

Good Read

• Is Egypt stable? Steven Cook
• Syria’s battle between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Abdul-Rahman Al Rashed
• Mohamed Morsi is no Nelson Mandela. Belal Fadl
• The administration should not meet with the Muslim Brotherhood in Washington. Eric Trager
• Matariyya, Egypt’s new theatre of dissent. Amira Howeidy
• Egypt: The expulsion of Coptic families and the role of state and society. Ziad Bahaa El-din
• Why demolishing the NDP building is a mistake. Mahmoud Riad
• Brotherhood’s call for retribution a religious violence‪. Jayson Casper

Plus:

• Corruption Perception Index 2014: Egypt is ranked 94 ( ranked 114 in 2013)

Photo Gallery

• Street Carnival project brings minority cultures to cities across Egypt

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt