Top headlines

• Sisi will run for re-election ‘if it is the will of the Egyptian people’
• Egypt’s cabinet approves amendments to law against FGM
• Coptic Church declares compromise with state over contentious church building law
• Egypt TV host shuns Twitter after pro-president poll fiasco
• Egyptian court upholds release of lawyer Makek Adly, turns down prosecution appeal
• Egypt’s high administrative court accepts recusal request in Red Sea islands case

 Main headlines

 Monday

• UAE offers $1 billion deposit to Egypt’s central bank
• President Sisi gave interview to state-owned newspaper
• Israeli delegation arrives in Cairo to discuss Egyptian initiative to revive peace talks
• Egypt, Italy at odds over child seeking medical care for brother
• Russia, Egypt agree on roadmap for return of tourism
• Supply minister rules out resigning over allegations of luxury residency

 Tuesday

• Sisi will run for re-election “if it is the well of the Egyptian people”
• Russian flights to Egypt likely to resume in October
• Sisi and PM seek agreement over amended church building bill
• Sisi: Official military expenditure lowest in region is the lowest in the region
• August salaries for Egyptian embassies abroad is delayed due to dollar crisis
• European lawyers launch petition to demand Malek Adly’s release
• Egypt plans to end fuel subsidies within three years
• Egypt investigates claims of hepatitis-A virus in strawberry exports
• Ethiopian dam study contracts to be signed in September

Wednesday

• Two police officers were killed in North Sinai
• Egyptian Christians may have to wait longer for church building reform as bill stalls
• Security kills Muslim Brotherhood member after an attempted attack on a Cairo’s church
• Egypt’s Sisi to issue presidential pardon within days, according to interview
• Egypt’s Sisi meets king Abdullah II of Jordan in Cairo
• Ten ‪Egyptians are severely wounded in a Libya’s blast
• Egypt accuses Islamist youth group of destroying the economy
• 220 hotels shut down as occupancy collapses in tourist areas

Thursday

• Coptic Church declares compromise with state over contentious church building law
• Prominent human rights lawyer Malek Adly is granted release from detention
• Six terrorists were killed in an attack on Rafah’s check point
• Supply minister resigns amid criticism over wheat procurement, five-star hotel stay
• Sisi to visit India next week to discuss bilateral cooperation
• Military court jails 7 Brotherhood members for 15 years for 2013’s police attack

 Friday

• Egypt TV host shuns Twitter after pro president poll fiasco
• Egypt’s army says it foiled militant attack on Sinai’s military outpost
• Sinai’s militants kill kidnapped police officer
• No Egyptian cabinet reshuffle is planned
• Cairo repeats offer to treat boy whose brother migrated to Italy seeking treatment
• Egypt’s traffic cops to wear body cameras soon

Saturday

• Egyptian court rejects suspension of prison term for novelist Ahmed Naji pending appeal
• Egyptian court upholds release of lawyer Makek Adly, turns down prosecution appeal
• Egypt’s high administrative court accepts recusal request in Red Sea islands case
• Security forces attempt to ban monthly seminar held by novelist Alaa al-Aswany

Sunday

• Egypt’s cabinet approves amendments to law against FGM
• Egypt’s parliament approves VAT at 13pct rate in 2016/17
• http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/241872.aspx …
• ‪#Egyptian journalist Amr Badr to be released on bail in Red Sea island case ‪http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/241821.aspx …
• Administrative Prosecution referred TV anchor El-Hennawy to disciplinary court on charges of insulting Al-Sisi
• Egypt will no longer accept wheat shipments containing traces of the ergot fungus
• Egyptian MPs who held press conference condemning VAT bill referred to disciplinary committee ‪http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/241881.aspx …
• Head of UN Libya mission: Egypt has the right to defend its borders

 Good Reports

• Egypt’s government complicit in wheat corruption – parliamentary report. Eric Knecht and Maha El-Dahan
• Sharm El Sheikh edges back into the tourism picture. Robert Wall
• Untold stories of sexual harassment in Egypt’s newsrooms. Mai Shams El-Din
• Meet Egypt’s first female bodyguard. BBC news
• Egyptians take to the streets again, now in workout gear. Rod Nordland

Good Read

• Exactly 500 Years ago, this battle changed the Middle East forever. Akhilesh Pillalamarri
• Countering the Pontiff of terror. Yasser Reda

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