Top Headlines

• Egypt court overturns death sentence against ousted ex-President Mohammed Morsi
• ISIS’ Egypt branch executes 100-year-old cleric
• Egypt clears way for former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq to return home
• Egypt lifts assets freeze of anti-torture NGO

   Main Headlines

 Monday

• Egyptian pound strengthens as dollar liquidity increases
• 14 persons are remanded into custody over protesting on November 11
• Egypt’s first gold mining tender since 2009 is set for early December
• MP Sadat to be investigated for ‘leaking draft NGO law to foreign embassies’ –

Tuesday

• Egypt court overturns death sentence against ousted ex-President Mohammed Morsi
• Court rejects appeal against the release of Mubarak sons
• Challenging government, Egypt’s parliament approves repressive NGO bill
• AUC students continue protests against hike of tuition fee

 Wednesday

• Militant group Lewaa al-Thawra publishes footage of the assassination of army general’s Adel Ragaei
• Egypt says happy with impact of currency float
• Egypt clears way for former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq to return home
• Egyptian policeman gets life sentence for killing a man over the price of a cup of tea
• Health Ministry to sue Doctors Syndicate’s official over claims on syringe use
• Unemployment rate stands at 12.6 percent
• World Bank says Egypt to get next US$1 billion loan tranche by early January

 Thursday

• ‪Sisi pardons 82 prisoners, including TV host Islam Al-Beheiry
• Egypt to cut energy subsidies further after securing IMF loan
• Sisi orders imports of 146 unavailable medications to be subsidized by a national company
• Health ministry attempts to terrorize Doctors Syndicate over syringe use statement: Syndicate official

Friday

• Six months after Egypt Air crash, Egypt announces all Paris flight passengers dead
• Russia offers Egypt modern equipment for Mistral ships
• Pardoned young detainees are allowed to walk free
• Cairo University grants Doctors Syndicate 48 hours for disciplinary enquiry against official over syringes statement
• Egypt Air liberalizes the price of airline tickets
• Minofiya governor announces alert against winter floods
• Nubians are protesting inclusion of Nubian village in state-backed land development project

Saturday

• ISIS’ Egypt branch executes a 100-year old cleric
• Egypt’s journalist unionists get 2 years’ jail for harboring colleagues
• Press Syndicate members intended to hide 2 suspects from justice: Court’s verdict reasoning
• El-Sisi says don’t ‘jump to conclusions’ on Trump
• Egypt lifts assets freeze of of anti-torture NGO
• Egyptian ambassador to UK: UK flight ban to Sharm El-Sheikh is “mind-boggling”

Sunday

• Plot to assassinate Egyptian President Sisi is uncovered
• Press syndicate appeals prison verdict against president, board members
• Journalist Ismail Alexandarani is granted release
• Researcher El-Behairy to resume work after presidential pardon
• Apache to invest $960m in western desert concessions
• No increase in ticket prices for domestic flights: ‪Egyptian cabinet
• Egyptian authorities besiege Nubian protest camp

Good Reports 

• Those luxury Egyptian cotton sheets you own may not be luxurious- or Egyptian. Alison Moodie
• A sugar shortage is bad news for Egyptians but may be worse news for the president. Adel Abdel Ghafar
• What about new design of the Egyptian currency? Hend El-Behary

Good Read

• Egypt’s economic reform: The good and the bad. Steven Cook
• Egypt’s economy: Not out of the woods yet. Eric Trager
• Egypt and the IMF: a good start, but only a start. George Abed
• Why Egypt’s Sisi welcomes Trump’s win. Shahira Amin

 From Twitter

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Interview

• Q&A with Environment Minister Khaled Fahmy. Louise Sarant

 Video

• American University in Cairo students protest increase in tuition fees

Plus

• Ancient Egypt crocodile surprise at Dutch museum

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt