Top Headlines
- Several armed attacks in Egypt’s Sinai
- Egypt extends state of emergency for three months
- Coptic priest stabbed to death in Egypt
- Egypt loses in UNESCO runoff vote to French candidate
Main Headlines
Monday
- Sisi rewards each player of football team LE1.5 million for qualifying for World Cup
- Fatah and Hamas delegations meet in Cairo in order to push towards reconciliation
- Egypt to construct two ports in disputed Halayeb Triangle with Sudan
Tuesday
- Egypt’s Khattab finishes 3rd in second round of UNESCO vote
- Russian company buys 30% of Egyptian Zuhr gas field in Mediterranean
- Parliamentarians call on President Sisi to release Ultras football fans
Wednesday
- Egypt’s Sisi launches new administrative capital project
- Egypt’s Sisi issues decree forming national electoral commission
- Egypt releases Israeli tourist arrested with bullets in his bag
- Information ministers of Qatar-boycotting countries to hold meeting in Bahrain
- Egyptian lawyer banned from travel wins prestigious rights defenders award
Thursday
- Egypt extends state of emergency for three months
- A Coptic priest is killed in stabbing incident in Cairo outskirts
- Egypt accepts leading activist’s appeal of life sentence
- IMF expects Egypt’s growth to reach 5.3% in 2019
- Health Minister announces drafting bill to criminalize child marriage
Friday
- Armed militants kills six soldiers in Sinai
- Egypt loses in UNESCO runoff vote to French candidate
- Egypt prosecution detains suspect the murder of Coptic priest
- UN condemns anti gay crackdowns in Egypt, Azerbaijan, Indonesia
- Egyptian tourism authority signs deal with Italian tourism federation for promotional campaign
Saturday
- Second Field Army foils IS militant attack, targeted Al-Arish checkpoint
- Egyptian court sentences 4 gay men to 3 years in prison each
- Egypt plans to renew a $2 billion financing deal with international banks
- Egypt responds to Qatari claims in UNESCO row
Sunday
- Militants rob bank, attack church in Egypt’s Sinai; 7 dead
- 24 militants and six soldiers are killed in attacks in Egypt’s Sinai
- Military courts will no longer be handling protest cases, according to a verdict by the Egypt constitutional court
- Parliament’s majority bloc campaigns for Al-Sisi re-election
- Egyptian public figures sign “Alashan Tabneeha” petition, call for second Sisi term
Good reports
- Arab rivalries exposed as Egypt targets Qatar in UNESCO vote. John Irish
- Are Egypt and Italy over the Giulio Regeni ordeal? Sonia Farid
- What’s behind Cairo’s call to unify expatriate groups? Amr Mostafa
Good Read
- The public spectacle of a slain Coptic priest. Jayson Casper
From Twitter
Podcast
- Intercepted podcast with lead singer of Mashrou3leila band after attacking gays in Egypt
Archive
- Sadat’s ghost haunts Mubarak’s dreams for Egypt –archive 1984
- A glimpse of Egypt under the rule of its last monarch
Plus
- The tribulations of Sheikh Jackson film
- Uber to invest $20 million in Egypt’s newly inaugurated Centre of Excellence
- Czech excavation uncovers temple of King Ramses II in Abusir
- A granite pyramid peak was unearthed in Saqqara
Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt
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