Top Headlines

• Italy vows to help Egypt fight terrorism (Monday)
• El-Sisi says Al-Azhar has failed to renew Islamic discourse (Tuesday)
• Egypt’s Islamic State affiliate claims rocket attack on naval boat (Thursday)
• Islamic State claims attack on military checkpoint in North Sinai

ISIS ‘s missile attack against an Egyptian navy – Photo via Reuters

Main Headlines

 Monday

• Italy vows to help Egypt fight terrorism
• Residents near Italian Consulate fear evacuation
• Editor-in-chief of alleged pro-Brotherhood website is referred to criminal trial
• US navy chief visits Alexandria for security cooperation
• Egypt launches monitor to scrutinize foreign media reports
• Egypt keeps pound steady on official market
• 1,552 violations recorded against students in Egypt in the last academic year
• El-Sisi issues new law liberalizing the electricity market

Tuesday

• El-Sisi says Al-Azhar has failed to renew Islamic discourse
• Three Christians detained in Egypt for distributing dates saying the “Lord love you”
• 2 Egyptians handed 3 years in prison in “Shura Council trial”
• Hotels and resorts in the Red Sea have witnessed a significant rise in occupancy ‪

Wednesday

• Egypt’s military court acquits 23 Morsi’s supporters
• Suicide bomber was killed near military base
• German embassy is closed over car bomb threats
• Amnesty says Egypt’s draft anti-terrorism law “must be scrapped immediately or fundamentally revised,”
• Egypt’s cabinet approved measure to name the site of the Rabaa massacre after slain top prosecutor
• Moody’s upgrades Egypt’s banking system’s outlook to stable

Thursday

• Egypt’s Islamic State affiliate claims rocket attack on naval boat
• Egypt’s Interior Minister sacks Cairo police chief after bombing
• Egypt removes jail time for journalists in anti-terrorism bill
• Former ‪ Egyptian President Morsi calls supporters “to continue the revolution”
• Egypt lifts decision to halt cotton imports
• Egypt completes dredging for new waterway in the new Suez Canal
• Egypt pardons 42 indebted women

Friday

• 6 pro-Brotherhood protesters killed in clashes in Giza
• Egypt’s PM visits residents whose houses harmed by Italian consulate bombing
• Mounting indignance at auditing agency over recent presidential degree
• Egypt freed 525 prisoners following a presidential pardon issued in honor of Eid El-Fitr
• Egypt has invited Qatar, Turkey to attend the inauguration of the New Suez Canal

Saturday

• Islamic state claims attack on military checkpoint in North Sinai
• 39 militants killed in north, central Sinai
• “Egyptian soldiers live up to responsibility every day.” Defense minister3
• Egyptian police arrest 29 men for sexual harassment during Eid
• Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam talks to resume in Khartoum

 Sunday

• Death toll on the Egyptian army’s side rose to seven by the end of fighting on Saturday in North Sinai
• Egyptian army condemns ‘lies’ promoting “false terrorist victories”
• IS claims abduction of 3 Christians in Libya, including an Egyptian
• Pope Tawadros prays for Armenian genocide victims in Lebanon
• Over 41,000 Egyptians, foreigners visited Giza’s Pyramids during holidays
• Egypt to restore up to 54 houses in Boulaq damaged in Italian consulate blast
• Italy to sign memorandum of understanding (MOUs) on prospective electricity, power, and oil deal

Good Reports

• Bedouins drawn into Egypt’s Islamist fight. Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Yara Bayoumy
• Sisi supporters criticize presidency a year after inauguration. Al-Masry Al-Youm
• Egyptian Sheikh banned after controversial preaching against “tyrants” Egyptian Streets
• Why things could get even worse for reporters in Egypt for reporters in Egypt. Ruth Michaelson
• Egyptian soap that’s flattering to Jews is a surprise hit among Palestinians. William Booth and Sufian Taha
• Who thinks less of women who smoke? BBC Trending
• Egypt’s new drug addiction. Peter Schwartzstein

Good Read

• Recent Congressional Development on Egypt aid. Amy Hawthorne and Elissa Miller
• Who is destroying the state? Ahmed Ragab
• The struggle for the leadership of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. Georges Fahmi
• Italian Consulate bombing hits home for Cairo, Rome. H A Hellyer
• Omar Al Sharif (and Egypt’s progressive vision)…dead, long before he was dead Magdi Abdelhadi

Video

• Aftermath of ‪ISIS attack on Egyptian navy vessel

 Plus:

• Egypt’s minorities gather for Iftar at the Sha’ar Hashamyim Synagogue

From Twitter

Photo Gallery

• Thousands of Egyptians perform Eid Al-Fitr prayer
• Anti-harassment policewoman in Cairo
• Cookie time: Eid’s old time treat

Anti-harassmant policewoman in Cairo- via Ahram

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt

Happy Eid