Top Headlines

• Egypt hires consultancy to check airport security after Russia crash. Tuesday
• Israel approves natural gas exports to Egypt. Friday
• Nine police, army generals among 11 newly appointed governors. Saturday
• Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia say committed to reaching understandings on Nile Dam. Sunday

Main Headlines

 Monday

• Libya’s eastern oil company says signs shipment deal with Egypt
• Egypt puts gag order on media about nuclear power station
• Egypt’s Wafd party says will not join ‘Support Egypt’ pro-Sisi parliamentary bloc
• Following months of denied visitations, families allowed to visit detainees in Aqrab prison
• Egypt introduces women-only buses

Tuesday

• El-Sisi says he would not stay in office against the will of Egyptians
• Egypt has hired global consultancy Control Risks to review securities at its airports
• Military court sentenced Brotherhood head Badie to 10 years in prison
• Over 70 international scholars demand release of Egyptian journalist and researcher Ismail Alexandrani
• Egypt’s Central Bank backs local products, tighten importing measures
• Interior Ministry organizes human rights competition for Egypt’s police forces

Wednesday

• ‪Egypt‪ struggles to pay for oil, LNG supplies amid foreign currency crisis
• Iraqi FM arrives in Cairo for emergency Arab League meeting on Turkish intervention
• Egyptian authorities are working on release of 16 fishermen in Tunisia
• Tunisian PM: Ennahda has no reservations about improving relations with Cairo
• British ambassador welcomes Egypt’s deal with international company to secure airports
• Small women protest against Egypt’s justice minister decree on summer marriage”

 Thursday

• ‪Russian Security Services identify groups potentially responsible for the Russian plane crash in Sinai
• El-Sisi meets with ministers ahead of Ethiopian Dam’s talks
• British airlines delay resumption of regular flights to Sharm el-Sheikh
• Egypt demands immediate Turkish withdrawal from Iraqi territories
• Salafist Nour Party denies boycotting 1st parliament session over woman speaker
• Germany to build two additional submarines for Egypt

 Friday

• A police conscript wounded in North Sinai
• Sharqiya governor was sacked by the cabinet
• Egyptian prosecutors in Ismailia 3order re-arrest of police officer accused of torturing detainee to death
• Israel approves natural gas exports to Egypt
• Al-Azhar warns Muslims against new year fortune tellers

 Saturday

• Egyptian policemen are sentenced to life in prison for torturing man to death
• Trains resume following a bomb on Cairo-Zagazig railway track
• Nine police, army generals among 11 newly appointed governors
• Sisi meets with the Iraqi rape victim of ISIS
• Interior ministry sends more medical missions to governorate prisons
• Egypt MP Okasha is barred from holding conference on independent MP bloc
• Egypt’s Student Union calls the dismal of the high education minister
• Sharqeya and Gharbeya courts sentence over 30 Brotherhood members and supporters to prison

 Sunday

• Three killed and 11 injured in an explosion in Giza
• Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia say committed to reaching understandings on Nile Dam
• Two militants were killed in Northern Sinai
• Egyptian Foreign Minister asks to take asks to take Al-Jazeera’s mike away, again
• Egypt’s Sisi appoints committee to investigate corruption claims
• Journalist is stabbed 4 times in Giza metro station
• Egypt offers tourism and housing projects to Saudi investment
• Hamas condemns apparent Egyptian killing of mentally-ill Palestinian
• Egypt ‘will not allow Tutankhamun tomb to be damaged’ in hunt for a secret chamber

 Good Reports

• Egypt’s new provincial governors: Who’s who? Ahram Online
• Inside Egypt’s blacked out war with ISIS- affiliated militants
• CPJ 2015 prison census finds that China & Egypt imprison record number of Journalists
• Beans and Koshary save Egyptians from rising food prices in 2015. Mohamed Gad and Yasmine Selim

Good Read

• Egypt: The Renaissance Dam and the need to confront facts on the ground. Ahmed El-Sayed Al-Naggar
• The Return of Egypt’s military interest groups. Yezid Sayigh
• The struggle for Egypt’s tourism sector. Mustansir Barma
• Egypt: Geography as destiny. Galal Nassar
• Emerging Egypt-Russia alliance could disrupt Saudi Arabia’s plans. Zvi Bar’el

Interview

• 26-year-old female MP has big plans for South Sinai and Egypt’s new parliament. George Mikhail for Al-Monitor
• Actor Khalid Abdalla on filmmaking as activism, image of Arabs in cinema. Nourhan Tewfik for Ahram Online

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