Top Headlines 

• Washington delivers F-16s to Egypt. (Thursday)
• Saudi Arabia and Egypt sign “Cairo declaration.” (Friday)
• Egypt extends military mandate in the Gulf and Red Sea for 6 months. (Saturday)
• Schedule for Egypt’s parliamentary elections is expected to be announced next week. (Saturday)
• Egypt-US Strategic Dialogue kicks off in Cairo. (Sunday)

Egyptian air force celebrates the delivery of  new F-16 aircrafts from the United States ( Ahram 0n-line)

Main Headlines

 Monday

• Kerry heads for Egypt and the Gulf
• Capsized ferryboat driver is detained
• Egypt police kills two suspected militants in a raid in Cairo
• Citizen kidnapped in North Sinai for reportedly cooperating with security services
• Muslim Brotherhood figures lashes out at Nour Party co-founder for winning a Harvard scholarship
• Trial of Morsi over insulting judiciary is deferred to next October
• Egypt’s health minister shuts down pharmaceutical factory after death of children

Tuesday

• High Elections Commission will begin the preparations for parliamentary elections after the inauguration of the New Suez Canal
• Egypt factory fire kills at least 25
• Egypt armed forces to establish a national company for the development of North Sinai
• Judge Ramy Abd al-Hady resigns amid accusations of sexual bribery
• Prosecution services have ordered a publishing ban in judge’s sexual bribe case
• UAE State Minister: Egypt is navigating towards success
• Egypt’s foreign ministry condemns bomb attack in Bahrain
• Esraa Al-Tawil faces charges of spreading false news

 Wednesday

• Gunmen in Egypt kill guard outside the embassy of Niger
• Egypt to build Port Said’s side channel
• US media criticism will not affect Egypt: Egypt’s foreign ministry
• Turkey is waiting for an invitation from Egypt to New Suez opening
• A Justice Ministry panel has frozen the assets and properties of 78 new group members of the Muslim Brotherhood
• Egypt’s tourism revenue rose 3.1 percent in the first half of 2015

Thursday

• Washington delivers F-16s to Egypt after military package is unfrozen
• Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince and defense minister to visit Egypt Thursday
• Cairo Criminal Court has postponed issuing a verdict in the retrail of Al-Jazeera journalists to August 2
• Egypt, Saudi Arabia issue “Cairo Declaration” to strengthen cooperation
• UN envoy arrives in Egypt to discuss Yemen crisis
• Egypt’s oil minister: No objections to Iranian oil
• Israel army says could attack militants affiliated to ISIS in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula

 Friday

• Saudi Arabia and Egypt sign “Cairo declaration”
• Egypt’s navy receives FREMM frigate from France
• Egypt government calls for justice for Palestinian baby killed by Israeli extremists
• Egypt’s Sisi expresses support for Bahrain’s counter-terrorism efforts
• Egyptian electoral committee to receive requests from media for permits to cover polls
• Egypt raises electricity prices for mid-to-high household usage

 Saturday

• Kerry arrives in Egypt for “strategic dialogue” meetings
• Egypt extends military mandate in Gulf and Read Sea for 6 months
• Schedule for Egypt’s parliamentary elections is expected to be announced next week
• Army statement: Egypt says militant leader was killed in a shootout
• HRW: Police may have killed 9 people in extrajudicial execution
• Egypt MOI says can’t secure trial of policemen charged with torturing detainee to death
• A gold Egyptian pound to celebrate the New Suez Canal

Sunday

• Egypt-US Strategic Dialogue kicks off in Cairo
• Kerry says United States and Egypt were moving back to a “strong base” in their relationship
• Egypt FM says no journalists in jail for their work
• IED explodes under judge’s car in Sharqiya, none injured
• Egypt postpones verdict in retrial of Al Jazeera journalists to August 29
• Egyptian army says 88 terrorists killed in North Sinai in 12 days
• Egypt’s electoral commission to monitor media coverage of parliamentary election
• Revenues from Suez Canal are expected to increase by 9 percent during the current 2015/2016 fiscal year
• German University of Cairo expels one student, suspends others for “riots” for “riots”

 Good Reports

• Britain quietly resumes multi-million-pound arms deals with Egypt. Jack Moore
• Egypt to open Suez canal expansion finished in a third of a projected time. Jared Malsin
• New pact brings Saudi Arabia and Egypt closer. Taimur Khan
• Five legal controversies in the Al-Jazeera case. Mostafa Mohie
• Hisham Mubarak Law Center threatened with with judicial investigation. Mada Masr
• Pink taxis seek to put brakes on harassment of women Riham Mokbel

Good Read

• Countering the Islamist violence rising in Egypt. Mokhtar Awad and Brian Katulis.
• The U.S.-Egypt Strategic Dialogue: Drift along the Nile. Amy Hawthorne
• Resumption of U.S.-Egypt Strategic Dialogue. Eric trager and Eitan Sayag
• Wait and see: Egypt’s line on Iran. Dina Ezzat
• Now we got ‪ Al-Morabtoon. Zenobia

Timeline

• Al-Jazeera trial

Plus:

• Press availability with the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry.
• Remarks of Secretary of State John Kerry at the US- Egypt Strategic Dialogue
• Senators urge Secretary Kerry to focus on political reform, human rights during the US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue
• It is time for Sisi to set the Al-Jazeera journalist free. Amal Clooney

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