Top Headlines

• Egypt author jailed for violating ‘public modesty.’ Saturday
• Egyptian-Arab military exercises commence in Saudi Arabia. Sunday
• Hundreds protest in Cairo over police shooting. Friday
• Egypt’s El Nadeem Centre for rehabilitation of torture victims challenges possible shutdown. Thursday

 Main Headlines

 Monday

• Egypt says Italian student was not arrested before his death
• Egypt is fully cooperating with the Italian team involved in investigating the killing of Italian student
• Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood cuts ties to Egypt’s parent group
• Cairo University bans face veil for all women involved in treating patients
• Salafi preacher calls on Cairo University students to disobey veil ban
• Egypt’s jobless rate eases to 12.7percent in Q4/2015

Tuesday

• Egyptian diplomat and former UN Secretary General Boutrous-Ghali passes away at 93
• Egyptian court clears policeman over the 2011’s torture, killing case
• Egypt orders arrest of Facebook administrator after unfaithful wives comments
• Egypt’s central bank currently has no intention to devalue the pound
• Townhouse, one of downtown Cairo’s oldest nonprofit art spaces reopens after being raided 2 months

Wednesday

• Leading Egyptian journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal dies at 92
• Egypt acquits fourth police officer in torture death case
• Gunmen kill Egyptian policeman in an attack on a checkpoint
• An ISIS-affiliated group in Egypt claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack in Giza that left one police officer dead
• Egypt to shut prominent center that documents torture

Thursday

• Egypt’s Sisi forces 4 judges into retirement for alleged Brotherhood ties
• Egypt’s El Nadeem Centre for rehabilitation of torture victims challenges possible shutdown
• Egyptian detainee faces new branch of prosecution after spending over 2 years in custody
• Four April 6 members were released on bail in a case of unlicensed protest
• Cairo’s taxi drivers organize new protest against Uber and Careem
• Egypt bids former U.N. secretary-general Boutros Ghali farewell in a military funeral

 Friday

• Egyptian IS group affiliate publishes photos of beheading ‘of army spies”
• Egypt’s president has vowed to present new legislation to tackle ongoing “individual” cases of police abuse
• Hundreds protest in Cairo over police shooting
• Officer remanded into custody over the murder of a driver
• Italian newspapers condemn Giulio Regeni’s espionage accusation
• Al-Azhar’s top cleric to visit Indonesia for the first time

Saturday

• Egypt author is jailed for violating “public modesty”
• Egypt MPs ask parliament to discuss recent police abuse incidents
• Doctors hold silent nationwide protests in Egypt’s hospitals against police violence
• Sisi tells interior minister to crack down on police abuses  http://amay.link/Yy2rY
• Egypt signs $500 mln financing deal with African Development Bank
• Watchman killed in attempted heist at archeological site
• Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan agree on measures to strengthen trilateral ties
• Egypt’s Sisi opens African business forum, calls for joint actions

Sunday 

• Journalists Syndicate requests suspension of verdict against writer Naji
• Intellectuals to ‘burn’ literary works in protest at writer’s jail sentence
• Egyptian-Arab military exercises commence in Saudi Arabia
• Father of 4-year old sentenced to life in prison speaks out
• Egypt won’t float currency until FX reserves reach at least $25 billion: CBE governor

 Good Reports

• Egyptian columnist delivers stinging attack against Al-Sisi. AP
• How Egypt’s changing culture led one emigrant to support Trump. Emily Flitter
• Egypt parliament is divided over police reforms. Gamal Essam El-Din
• With little room for outcry, Egyptian detainees turn to hunger strikes. Aswat Masriya

Good Read

• Cairo white cabs reap the harvest of bad service. Hend El-Behary
• Heikal: The supreme spiritual guide of the state. Belal Alaa
• Insecurity under Egypt’s “security” forces. Aya Nader
• English translation of writer Ahmed Naji’s published novel excerpt
• Foreign Affairs republish an old essay of Boutros Ghali

Also you may find y essay on Egypt and ISIS worth reading

From Twitter

https://twitter.com/eldahshan/status/701066626259615744

Obituary:

• Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, prominent Egyptian journalist, dies at 92. David Kirkpatrick
• Mohamed Hassanein Heikal:The Arab world’s longest serving journalist (1923-2016)
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali.. Remarkable diplomat, and the first African to head the U.N.

Plus

• Prominent writer Alaa El-Deeb passes away at 77
• Egypt’s internet speed among the slowest in the world
• Egypt celebrates golden jubilee of Abu Simbel temple’s salvage operation
• Pop star Sherine’s dream about Sisi sparks social media storm

Photo Gallery

• Egypt bids farewell to former UN secretary-general Boutros Ghali
• Egypt bids farewell to iconic journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal
• African business forum in Sharm El-Sheikh

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt