Top Headlines

• Word “fire” is heard on voice recorder of doomed Egypt Air
• Egypt orders Muslim preachers to deliver identical weekly sermons
• Sisi will participate in Beijing G20 summit in September
• Egypt’s Sisi extends state of emergency in parts of North Sinai
• Foreign Ministry denies Egypt blocked UN Security Council statement on Turkey

 Main Headlines

 Monday

• Egypt orders Muslim preachers to deliver identical weekly sermons
• Turkish deputy PM: Turkey has not taken any steps yet on normalizing ties with Egypt
• Egyptian workers abducted in Libya returned back to Egypt
• Egyptian FM briefed the Palestinian president Abbas over his visit to Israel

Tuesday

• Egypt’s central bank keeps EGP stable against US dollar stable against US dollar in FX auction
• Sisi will participate in Beijing G20 summit in September
• Two Egyptian policemen were killed by roadside bomb in North Sinai
• Arab nations seek to block Middle East quartet report at the UN
• Adly, Badr, and Al-Saqa finally were giving their legal rights to exercise outside their cells
• Court sentences police officer, conscripts to prison for death of a Luxor man
• Egypt’s record scorer Hossam Hassan ordered detained after assaulting a policeman
• Number of tourists who visited Egypt in May dropped by 51.7 percent

 Wednesday

• Solar Impulse 2 lands in Egypt in penultimate stop of world tour
• Egypt’s Sisi extends state of emergency in parts of North Sinai
• Boeing and Egypt Air announce $864 million deal for nine next- generation 737-800s
• High-level Egyptian officials to formulate response to Italy halting military spare parts to Italy halting military spare parts
• Foreign ministry urges Egyptian citizens in Juba to stay in their homes
• Amnesty International: Forced disappearances integral to Egyptian state policy
• 18 post-graduate degree holders released following brief detention over protest

Thursday

• Egypt Air, GE sign TrueChoice agreement for maintenance consulting
• Turkish Deputy PM: Egypt can heal Turkey ties by sparing Morsi from death sentence
• Egypt is making new concessions in ongoing negotiations with Ethiopia over the Renaissance Dam
• All defendants implicated in assault of Coptic woman in Minya were released on bail
• Egyptian Museum displays country’s oldest papyruses, accounts on pyramids builders

Friday

• Sisi expresses Egypt’s solidarity with France following Nice attack
• Interior ministry investigating alleged assault on MP in Cairo police station
• Egypt prosecution orders detention of suspects involved in local wheat procurement corruption
• Egypt’s top Muslim authorities urge unity after ‘vile’ Nice attack

 Saturday

• Word “fire” is heard on voice recorder of doomed Egypt Air
• Egyptian media prematurely declares overthrow of Erdogan
• Egypt blocks U.N. Security Council condemnation of Turkey’s failed coup over wording
• 15 are arrested after arson attack on Christian homes in Upper Egypt
• Egyptian court rejects motion to overturn novelist Ahmed Naji’s 2 year sentence
• Egyptian student gets year in prison for leaking high school exam papers
• Egyptian court sentences four to death in ‘Tanta terrorist cell’ case
• Judge Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen is elected as the new head of Judges’ Club

 Sunday

• Foreign Ministry denies Egypt blocked UN Security Council statement on Turkey
• As relations warm, a new Israeli ambassador arrives in Cairo
• Doctors Syndicate refers 4 doctors to disciplinary committee for propagating device to cure AIDS, Hep C
• Senior policeman shot dead in Fayoum
• A Cairo criminal court extends journalist and researcher Ismail Alexandrani’s pretrial detention for another 45 days

Good Reports

• Objective notes on Hesham Geneina’s corruption report. Amr Adly
• A movable beast: Egypt’s bureaucrats can act fast when they want to. The Economist
• Liberal hopes dashed as post -Islamist Egypt turn conservative. AFP
• Egypt: Hundreds disappeared, tortured amid wave of repression. Amnesty
• Egyptian MP’s endorsement of FGM stirs controversy, but unlikely to have an effect. Sherif Tarek
• Will Israeli natural gas flow in Egypt’s pipelines? Mohamed Samir
• TV series “the Caesar”: Where NGOs burn the world and terrorists speak through CNN. Heba Afify

Good Read

• The ballot box to the Caliphate. Eric Trager
• Turkey, Egypt, Africa: How ‘hard-liner’ Netanyahu pulled off a diplomacy trifecta. Ron Kampeas

From Twitter

Book Review

• A Testimony of Hope on Egypt’s Revolution by Yosri Fouda. Ahram

Picture of the week

• Egyptian couple poses for wedding photo Alexandria’s sunset

 Plus

• Egypt’s population jumps 17 million over the last decade
• Pharaoh Island to be listed as World Heritage site
• Egypt is listed Among ” 10 emerging markets of the future”
• New lighting system to offer expanded Egyptian Museum’s operating hours

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt