Top Headlines

• Egypt’s Sisi: No one can touch Egypt’s share of Nile waters
• Lebanon’s Hariri to visit on Tuesday
• Arab League: Iran’s regional threats have crossed all limits
• Egypt-Gaza border opens under PA control for first time in a decade
• Head of Sinai’s Arish city security forces survives assassination attempt
• Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood leader loses appeal against life sentence

 Main Headlines

 Monday 

• A high military court in Ismailia has rejected appeals by fifteen terrorists convicted of killing soldiers in North Sinai
• Egyptian FM discusses latest regional developments with Abu Dhabi’s crown prince
• Egyptian policeman rescued from Western Desert kidnap may continue treatment abroad

Tuesday

• “Egypt fully rejects Iranian interference in Arab affairs,” FM Shoukry tells Saudi Crown Prince
• Egypt signs financing agreement worth $3.1 billion with international lenders
• Egypt, Jordan armed forces start joint military exercise
• Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier said Tuesday it had agreed to sell up to 24 C Series aircraft to Egypt Air
• Egypt says no gas deals with Israel until arbitration cases is resolved

Wednesday

• Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood leader loses appeal against life sentence
• Egyptian criminal court issued a preliminary death sentence against a man convicted of killing Coptic priest in Cairo
• An Egyptian court reinstated a ban on wheat imports containing the common ergot fungus, renewing uncertainty over a policy that has disrupted trade
• Egypt will stop importing liquefied natural gas in 2018 and may eventually export gas
• An Egyptian court releases 24 Nubian activists pending trial

Thursday

• Sisi to discuss Renaissance Dam crisis with Ethiopian PM in December
• Sole surviving Wahat militant is Libyan national from Derna
• Egyptian singer Sherine Abdel Wahab to face trial over remarks on Nile river
• Al-Azhar accredits 50 clerics to give official fatwas on TV
• Internet freedom continues to decline in Egypt: Freedom House

Friday

• Egyptian security forces killed three suspected militants and arrested 74 others in raids targeting militant groups in North Sinai
• Egypt orders detention of Libyan suspected of involvement in Western desert attack
• Hilton Worldwide plans an expansion in Egypt, sees pick-up in tourism

Saturday

• Egypt’s Sisi: No one can touch Egypt’s share of Nile waters
• Foreign ministers to meet Arab League chief ahead of urgent session
• Egypt to sign new Rafale warplanes deal with France
• Egypt-Gaza border opens under PA control for first time in a decade
• Egypt orders detention of prominent activist Mahinour el-Masry over illegal protest
• Egypt parliament to vote on three controversial laws this week

Sunday

• Lebanon’s Hariri to visit Egypt on Tuesday
• Head of Arish Security Forces survives assassination attempt
• Arab League foreign ministers meet in Cairo to discuss Iran violations
• Arab League: Iran’s regional threats have crossed all limits
• Lebanon FM to skip Arab League foreign ministers summit on Iran
• France’s Macron discusses Middle East developments with Egypt’s Sisi in a phone call
• Egypt prosecution refers officials to trial over wheat corruption

Good Reports

• Wahat attackers inspired by al-Qaida: Sole survivor Taha Sakr
• Omar Refae: An indomitable Mujahideen militant and Faqeeh. Egypt Today
• From cafe worker to fierce lawyer, who is the Egyptian presidential runner Khalid Ali? Al-Arabiya
• Egypt’s Coptic heritage jeopardized due to lack of funds. George Mikhail

Good Read

• Forty years after historic visit to Israel by Egypt’s Sadat, both countries are further apart. Akiva Eldar
• Meet Egypt’s Ansar Al-Islam, the not so new Al-Qaeda group. Zeinobia

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Plus

• Tutankhamun’s unseen golden treasures go public at the Egyptian museum
• Goddess Isis temple unearthed by builders in Banha
• National Geographic features Cairo’s ‘ashwayats’ on Instagram, provokes mixed reactions
• How Egyptian men swapped one type of bladder cancer for another
• Egyptian police arrest singer Shyma over racy video
• Remembering Leila Mourad: Egyptian cinema’s first female superstar

Finally, here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt