Top Headlines
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Egypt at the start of a Middle East trip
- CIA director visited Egypt, met with President Sisi
- Egypt expresses its strong rejection and condemnation of East Jerusalem attack, warns of risks of escalation
- Egypt’s Sisi, India’s Modi oversee Indian Republic Day parade featuring Egypt’s Armed Forces
- Egypt’s oldest mummy found ‘covered in layers of gold’ following year-long excavation

Sec Blinken in Cairo– photo vis US State Dept
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egypt’s Sisi defends mega-projects with economy under strain
- Italian FM meets with Egyptian officials on migration, Libya
- Egyptian lawyers end strike after colleagues are released
- Egypt extends route of Giza-Aswan high-speed electric train to Abu-Simbel
Tuesday
- CIA director visited Egypt after Libya and Ukraine, meets Sisi
- Egyptian zoo overhaul renovation plan raises animal welfare fears
Wednesday
- Former referee Mark Clattenburg FLEES Egypt over safety concerns
- Egyptians are offered loans to buy books as inflation soars
Thursday
- Egypt’s Sisi and India’s Modi oversee Indian Republic Day parade featuring Egypt’s Armed Forces
- Cairo and New Delhi to elevate bilateral relations to strategic relationship
- Egypt’s religious body calls for boycott over Quran burnings
Friday
- Complete Roman city is uncovered in Egypt’s Luxor
- Egypt receives 63,000 tons of Russian wheat at Safaga port
- Indian firms express ‘huge interest’ in investing in Egypt clean energy & infrastructure projects
- Egypt expresses ‘full solidarity’ with Azerbaijan after attack on its embassy in Tehran
Saturday
- Egypt expresses its strong rejection and condemnation of East Jerusalem attack, warns of risks of escalation, but called for maximum restraint
- Egypt’s oldest mummy found ‘covered in layers of gold’ following year-long excavation
- Egypt Inaugurates Bio-Generic Pharma factory to produce mRNA vaccines, biologics
Sunday
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Egypt at the start of a Middle East trip
- US stands with Egypt, its people in their pursuit of prosperous future: State department
- President Sisi underscores special Egypt-Armenia ties in historic first visit to the country
- Egypt, Azerbaijan leaders discuss boosting bilateral relations in Baku
Report/ Read
- A crisis of confidence in Egypt: : After a decade of deficits, the government is running out of options. The Economist
- To save Egypt’s economy, get the army out of it. The Economist.
- In Egypt, economic heat of Russia’s war in Ukraine is only getting worse. Amr Emam
- Laughing the pain away: How Egyptians talk about the economic crisis in memes. Zeinab El-Gundy
- US State Department statement on US-Egypt relationship
- Faiyum Oasis: The heart-shaped hidden garden of Egypt. Robbie Mitchell
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