Top Headlines

• IMF approves 3-year, $12 billion loan for Egypt
• Administrative court rejects government appeal over Red Sea islands deal, confirm Egyptian sovereignty
• Saudi oil shipments to Egypt have been halted indefinitely
• Egypt’s Sisi invites Trump to Cairo

 Main Headlines

 Monday

• Saudi oil shipments to Egypt have been halted indefinitely
• Lawyer files lawsuit to cancel floating of the Egyptian pound
• AUC students storm out of meeting with new president over tuition fee hikes

Tuesday

• Administrative court rejects government appeal over Red Sea islands deal, confirms Egyptian sovereignty
• Egypt’s stocks hit 8-year high after the floatation of the pound
• Moody’s: Egyptian banks to profit from Thursday’s economic measures
• Egypt’s foreign reserves fall to $19 billion in October: Central bank

 Wednesday

• Egypt’s Sisi invites Trump to Cairo
• Interior Ministry prohibits trucks from using Suez, Ismailia highways in certain times
• Currency floatation drives up budget deficit
• Majority parliamentary bloc submits draft legislation for a new NGO law

Thursday

• Trump’s victory a setback for Muslim ‎Brotherhood, say Egyptian MPs
• Thomas Cook to operate 36 flights weekly to Egypt
• Central Bank freezes Al-Nadeem’s bank account
• Detained Muslim Brotherhood members are not included in the presidential pardon

Friday

• IMF approves 3-year, $12 billion loan for Egypt
• ‪ Egypt says it foils alleged Muslim Brotherhood plot on eve of planned protests
• 11/11 protests fail to take off in Cairo, scores were arrested nationwide

Saturday

• Police refer 64 suspects to prosecution over Friday protests
• Activist Islam Khalil detained for the third time
• A judge is interrogated for second time for working on anti-torture draft law
• A committee formed to prepare names of political detainees for potential release has drawn up an initial list of 83 suggestions including Islam El-Beheiry
• Irish Egyptian Ibrahim Halawa’s trial is adjourned for the 16th time in Egypt

Sunday

• Egypt defeated Ghana 2-0 in Alexandria in Alexandria
• Egypt nears $800 million European aid deal to expand social safety net
• Army kills 14 militants during a North Sinai operation
• Egypt, Turkey accuse each other of crackdown on dissent
• The price of the US dollar against the Egyptian pound registered a lower rate at the Central Bank of Egypt
• Egyptian parliament delays seating of MP-elect Amr El-Shobaky yet again
• Egypt to open ‪Rafah border with Gaza for four days

Good Reports

• Mapping IMF intervention in the Arab world. Beesan Kassab
• Copts debate abolishing marriage preparation sessions in churches. Mai Shams El-Din
• To curb hiking prices, pharmacists call for drugs with generic names. Al-Masry Al-Youm
• Egypt mourns ‘The Magician’ star Mahmoud Abdel Aziz. AFP

From Twitter

Photo Gallery

• Scenes of jubilant fans as ‪Egypt defeat Ghana in World Cup qualifiers

Plus

• Sunken Cities: The lure of underwater worlds and a critique of a blockbuster exhibition
• From Cairo to Paris with the Egyptian surrealists. Fatenn Mostafa Kanafani
• 3,900-year-old funerary causeway unearthed in an Aswan necropolis

Finally, here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt