Top Headlines

• Egyptian parliament passes bill designating FGM a felony imposes stricter penalties ‪
• Egyptian parliament approves new church building law
• Administrative Court rejects banning social media
• Egyptian army to sell baby formula to fight monopoly practices
• Egypt announces postponement of signing of GERD impact studies contracts of Ethiopian dam due to” unresolved issues”

 Monday

• ‪Egypt’s tourist numbers drop 41.9 percent in July year-on-year
• ‪Egyptian‪ businessman is released on bail after returning stolen funds in wheat scandal
• Cairo prosecution detains policeman who killed microbus driver on murder charges
• Egypt’s 25-30 bloc of MPs says won’t apologize for anti-VAT press conference

Tuesday

• Egyptian parliament approves new church-building law
• Egyptian MP Sadat resigns as head of parliament’s human rights committee
• Egypt’s highest court to hear lawsuits against protest law on October 1
• Second defendant released on bail in wheat corruption case
• Sisi to discuss bilateral relations with Sudan’s Bashir in October
• Corpse of university student surfaces in Zeinhom morgue, amid family claim of death in police custody

Wednesday

• Egyptian parliament passes bill designating FGM a felony imposes stricter penalties
• Administrative Court reject banning Facebook and Twitter
• Top Egyptian and Italian prosecutors to discuss Regeni murder case in Rome
• Egypt’s trade deficit is down 15.7 percent year-on-year in June
• Cyprus and Egypt sign deal paving way for gas pipeline
• Political turmoil after 2011 uprising decreased Egyptians’ life expectancy

 Thursday

• Sisi and Kerry meet in New Delhi
• Health minister announces ‘new system’ of infant milk sales amid protests over shortage
• 2 dead, 5 injured in an attack in Al-Arish
• Egypt to open Rafah crossing with Gaza for two days
• Telecom Egypt will become the country’s fourth mobile carrier after acquiring a G4 license

Friday

• Press Syndicate Freedoms Committee demands medical release for detained journalists
• Egypt, India to discuss mega projects and medical city
• Egypt’s antiquities minister attends lifting of newfound beam of Khufu’s second boat
• Egypt‪ suspends hot air balloon flights over Luxor for three days

Saturday

• Egyptian army to sell baby formula to fight monopoly practices
• IMF supports Egypt’s economic reform program: Lagarde to Sisi at G20
• Muslim MP submits first request to build a church after passing of new law in Egypt
• Egyptian court orders the release of rights activist Ahmed Abdullah, prosecution appeals
• Egypt renewed detention of journalist Mahmoud al-Sakka again, despite release of colleagues in the same case
• Unarmed Passenger storming EgyptAir pilot’s cockpit i is detained

Sunday

• Three Egyptian policemen injured while attempting to diffuse a bomb in Damietta
• Turkey is willing to mend relations with Egypt, Syria: Turkish PM
• Egypt postponed contract signing with two foreign consultancy firms to study the impact of Ethiopia’s Dam due to “unresolved issues”
• Egypt’s Sisi meets with Chinese president at G20 summit
• Egypt’s defense minister heads to Russia for military cooperation talks

Good Reports

• Sinai attacks decline, as Egypt’s fight against IS yield results. Avi Issacharoff
• Egypt’s new law on Churches angers Christian critics. Maggie Michael
• Egypt’s Christians feel besieged. ‘Everything is good,’ Muslim cleric says. Rod Nordland
• Bread, bribes and fungus.The Economist
• Egypt documenting Jewish artifacts. Khalid Hassan
• A guide to Egypt’s new value-added tax. Bassem Abo Alabass and Mariam Mecky

Good Read

• An opportunity for Egypt and the IMF.Mohamed El-Erian
• Ready, aim, make kofta. Maged Atiya

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Plus

• Ten years after his death, young Egyptian writers reflect on Naguib Mahfouz’s legacy.
• Salmawy recounts the failed assassination attempt on Mahfouz’s life
• Egyptian soprano Fatma Said among BBC Radio 3’s 2016 ‘New Generation Artists
• Egypt nominates Mohamed Diab’s Clash for 2017 Academy Awards