Top Headlines
- UK lifts laptop cabin ban on flights from Cairo
- Israel’s ambassador returns to Egypt after 8 months away
- Israel may reduce Egypt’s fine for halting gas supplies in 2012
- Egypt blocks more websites raising the total number of blocked sites to 405
- Human rights group calls on Egyptian government to review website block
- Sudanese FM: Arbitration or negotiation is best choice to solve Halayeb case
- Electrical lines that supply power to Gaza from Egypt is partially restored.
Main Headlines
Monday
- Seven defendants, affiliated with Muslim Brotherhood and accused of creating militant group ‘Kata’ab Helwan’, escaped from a police vehicle
- Egyptian military kills 7 terrorists in North Sinai
- Russia to train Egyptian pilots for Mistral amphibious assault ship helicopters
- Germany, Egypt agree on plan to slow flow of immigrants
- Parliament will not discuss constitutional amendments during the current year
- Egypt reminds citizens to enter Schengen area via country that issued them visa
Tuesday
- Israeli ambassador returns to Egypt after 8 months away
- Russian- Egyptian exercise in Krasnodar by September
- Foreign Affairs Ministry denies signing agreement with Germany to establish refugee camps in Egypt
- Egypt’s FM signs agreements with Romania on visas, tourism and political consultation
- Egypt signs oil and gas exploration deals with Shell
Wednesday
- Human rights group calls on Egyptian government to review website block
- Two leading Brotherhood figures among 296 names added to Egypt’s terror list
- US dollar exchange rate continues to decline Wednesday continues to decline
- Egypt receives 7th Boeing 737-800 NG
- Coptic Pope Tawadros arrives in Australia for his first-ever pastoral visit
- Panasonic opens first TV manufacturing unit in Egypt
Thursday
- Sudanese FM: Arbitration or negotiation is best choice to solve Halayeb case
- Top Egyptian Muslim entity: animal slaughter in streets for Eid is a “sin”
- Egypt promotes birth control to fight rapid population growth
- Cairo Airport obtains ACI safety award
- Below-par Egypt lose top spot after stunning defeat by Uganda
Friday
- UK lifts laptop cabin ban on flights from Cairo
- Egypt blocks more websites raising the total number of blocked sites to 405
- Death toll among Egyptian pilgrims on hajj reaches 17
- Israel may reduce Egypt’s fine for halting gas supply in 2012
Saturday
- No sexual harassment reports on first day of Eid al-Adha
- Deaths among Egyptian pilgrims on hajj reaches 29
- Egypt’s Pope Tawadros II leads divine liturgy in Sydney
Sunday
- Electrical lines that supply power to Gaza from Egypt is partially restored.
- Qatar induces Egyptian publishers to join 28th Doha Book Fair
- Egypt authorities ban Sunday edition of pro-government daily
- Egypt delivers supplies to hospital in southern Burundi
- China invests $11.2B in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital
Good Reports
- TIMEP’s briefing on U.S. aid to Egypt.
- Border dispute with Sudan could isolate Egypt in Nile talks. Menna Zaki
- 14 days of a storm in July: Recounting what happened in Arish. Mada Masr
- How Egyptian vegetarians avoid meat during ‘Eid Al-Adha’. Taha Sakr
- Cairo seeks to boost trade with Ankara, overlooking political deadlock. Albaraa Abdullah
- Feminism is ‘booming’ in Egypt despite controversial ‘man up” campaign. Al-Bawaba
- The battle for the Nile riverbanks. Hadeer El Mahdaway
Good Read
(views expressed do not reflect my own)
- Sisi and Trump’s good relations don’t define US policy. Hatem Maher
- Egypt: Caught betw between Washington and Moscow. Zvi Mazel
- Egypt’s ‘Newspeak’ masks public’s perception of Israel. Zvi Bar’el
- John Milton, liberty, and Arab academics: The case of Mona Prince Sharihan Al-Akhras
- It is not all religion. Maged Atiya
From Twitter
https://twitter.com/FCOJohnCasson/status/9035903040869294
Plus
- Egypt’s hijabi Radio report BBC World Service
- Egypt to turn administrative building of Suez Canal to a museum by 2019
- An iconic sculpture by the legendary Mahmoud Mokhtar was discovered accidentally in Port Said
Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt
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