Top Headlines

• ‪Egypt’s Sisi sacks top auditor. Monday
• Egypt Air flight is hijacked for few hours and redirected to Cyprus. Tuesday
• Hijacker of Egypt Air plane never entered cockpit according to pilot of hijacked Egypt Air flight. Sunday
• Mother of Egypt’s Khaled Said sent solidarity message to Italy’s Regeni’s mother. Saturday
• US‪ Congress delegation arrives in Cairo to talk security with Sisi. Sunday

Main headlines

 Monday

• Egypt’s Sisi sacks top auditor who alleged mass state corruption
• Interrogation of the executive director of the Nazra center is postponed
• Egypt denies yielding to Italian pressure over the murder of Regeni
• Court significantly reduced the sentence of officer convicted of torture, murder sees sentence reduced to 3 years
• Egypt minister to travel to Sudan over arrest of Egyptian students
• 33 Egyptian judges forced into retirement “for engaging in politics”
• Egypt court bans demolition of churches
• Messi shoe donation stirs controversy in Egypt

 Tuesday

• Egypt Air plane is hijacked and forced to divert to Cyprus
• Cyprus police: No explosives found on Egypt Air hijacker or on plane
• ‘Always there is a woman involved’: Cyprus president laughs off Egypt Air hijacking
• Egypt Air hijack in Larnaca is ‘over’, hijacker is arrested
• Egypt Air hijacker was ‘man of few words, troublemaker,’ say neighbors
• Passenger who took selfie with hijacker identified as 26-year-old British man Parents of slain student Giulio Regeni question question Egypt’s Interior Ministry claims
• Hisham Badawy appointed as acting head of Egypt’s Central Auditing Agency
• As dollar crosses LE10 on black market, official rate remains steady

A British man Ben Innes who posed for a photo with the EgyptAir hijacker

Via UK’s Daily Mail

Wednesday

• Cyprus court ordered the detention of Egyptian hijacker for eight days
• Egypt has asked Cyprus to extradite the man accused of hijacking Egypt Air plane
• Egyptian army: Scores of Islamist militants killed in clashes south of Rafah in Sinai
• Turkey over identified with Muslim Brotherhood, says opposition CHP after a trip to Egypt
• Egypt’s Social Democratic Party says Geneina’s dismissal entrenches “fascism”
• Egypt cabinet approves 2016-17 draft budget
• Swedish archaeologists unearth 3,400-year-old necropolis in Aswan

Thursday

• Cypriot ex-wife recounts ‘black years’ with Egypt Air hijacker
• Egyptian court upholds three year jail sentence for writer Fatma Naoot
• FM meets Hillary Clinton’s adviser during his visit to Washington
• Defense Ministry to train Parliament on combatting “fourth generation warfare”
• 4 companies to start execution of first phase of Egypt’s new administrative capital
• Sisi approves 2016-17 draft budget
• Egyptian writer Alaa El-Aswany denies giving permission to Israeli publisher to publish his novel

 Friday

• Cypriot authorities asked me to take selfie with hijacker: Egypt Air flight attendant
• Egyptian business tycoon Naguib Sawiris says parliament was born dead
• Egyptian army raids kill 65 militants in North Sinai
• Cairo says Washington keen to boost Egypt’s ailing economy
• Egypt minister says more scans needed for King Tut’s “hidden chamber”
• Farid Zahran elected new Social Democratic Party chairperson

 Saturday

• Auditors urge Sisi to respect Constitution after sacking of top auditor Geneina
• Italian tourism association suspends Egypt activities until ‘truth’ on Regeni’s murder is revealed
• Mother of Egypt’s Khaled Said sent solidarity message to Italy’s Regeni’s mother
• Egyptian policemen is sentenced to life jail for killing a driver
• Egypt kicks off 1st stage of its new administrative capital project east of Cairo
• Two political blocs compete for power in the Egyptian parliament ‪

 Sunday

• Egypt’s stability more important than ever: US Senator Lindsey Graham
• Military court postpones verdict for 28 accused Morsi supporters for the second time
• TV host, ex-justice minister referred to court for defaming former top auditor
• Hijacker of Egypt Air plane never entered cockpit: Pilot
• Mauritanian president arrives in Egypt for talks with Sisi

 Good Reports

• 7-hour hijacking of Egypt Air flight 181: What went down? ‪ Ahram
• Egypt Air passenger on chicken, secret accounts and sleeping through the crisis. Felicity Morse
• Egypt blocked Facebook Internet service over surveillance. Yasmeen Abutaleb and Joseph Menn
• Egypt’s editor calls on authorities to seriously deal with case of an Italian student tortured and killed in Cairo. Hamza Hendawi
• Egyptian feminist leader Mozn Hassan remained defiant in face of official investigation. Liz Ford
• Egypt’s youth and the pull to migrate. Eduard Cousin
• Former Egyptian special forces officer calls on scholars to support Al Qaeda’s Jihad. Thomas Joscelyn
• Sprawling mural pays homage to Cairo’s garbage collectors. Kareem Fahim
• The Mother, the General, and the power of the Internet. Lucia Annunziata

Good Read

• The revolution’s ghetto http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2016/03/21/the-revolutions-ghetto/ (Link cannot be shorten). Ziad Akl
• The many “challenges and opportunities” of development in Sisi’s Egypt. Gabriel Young

From Twitter

Video

• Footage shows Egypt Air hijacker going through airport security
• Mother of Egypt’s Khaled Said sent solidarity message to Regeni’s mother

Interview

• Flight attendant who ushered passengers to safety during hijacking speaks out
• Amr Moussa: Implementing the constitution is necessary before talk of amendments

 Photo Gallery:

• The hijacking of Egypt Air flight 181
• ‪Egypt Air hijacker Seif El-Din Mostafa goes to court in Larnaca

 Plus

• Egypt’s Ahmed Naji, jailed for ‘indecent’ novel, honored with PEN’s Freedom to Write Award
• Hilarious Reactions to the Egypt Air hijacking
• U2 star Bono confirms Cairo visit in a selfie

And finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt