President Abdel Fattah El Sisi arrived in New York yesterday for the UN General Assembly’s 72nd regular Session, which began last week and runs until 25 September. El Sisi is scheduled to join a UN Security Council summit on peacekeeping and is making the crisis in Libya a signature issue. The president will address the General Assembly tomorrow, where his speech is expected to focus regional politics and the war on terror, according to Al Ahram. The Egyptian delegation accompanying El Sisi is scheduled to meet with the president of the World Bank, in addition to several US investors, Investment Minister Sahar Nasr told reporters in New York yesterday, according to Al Shorouk.

Also on El Sisi’s agenda is a meeting with US President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

All eyes on The Donald: Trump will address the UN for the first time since his election and “since his credo of ‘America First’ began to alarm allies that he would permanently upset the liberal international order that the US did so much to help create at the UN’s 1945 foundation,” writes the Financial Times. TheNew York Times shares the outlook, noting that the world leaders gathering in the Big Apple are still trying “to figure out this most unusual of American leaders.”

Shaker to discuss Dabaa in Vienna nuke speech: Electricity Minister Mohamed Shaker is expected to give a speech today at a general meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about Egypt’s plans to build the Dabaa nuclear power plant, according to Ahram Online.

And speaking of Dabaa, we’re hearing that the Council of State (Maglis El Dawla) is expected to complete its review of the contracts today. Sources close to the mattertell Youm7 that the Council will meet with officials from the Electricity Ministry today to discuss the final points of the contracts. This contradicts reports over the weekend that the contracts would not be approved until next month.

The Euromoney Egypt Conference kicks off today and ends tomorrow, with ministers Amr El Garhy, Sahar Nasr, and Tarek Kabil having been announced as scheduled to attend.

PSA- Traffic is about to get much, much worse: The new academic year officially began on Saturday for some 2.5 mn public university students around the country, Ahram Online reports. State-run K-12 schools will open their doors this coming Saturday, so expect your morning commute to be a bit tougher this weekend.

Some hibhob for the minister: To celebrate their first day back in school, some students at Cairo University put together a little dance routine for Higher Education Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar (who looked rather bemused throughout the whole show). We leave you the video with no further comment (runtime 1:03) because, really, there are no words.

The Emmys have been quite a distraction for us this morning. The big winner was The Handmaid’s Tale, which won best drama series, capping a night in which it also took home nods for best lead actress (the amazing Elisabeth Moss) and best supporting actress (Ann Dowd). The show boxed out Enterprise favourites Stranger Things and Westworld. The other big winner of the night: The HBO miniseries Big Little Lies. On the comedy side of things, SNL, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver received some well-deserved the golden statues. The New York Times has the list of winners, as the Emmy website hadn’t been updated at dispatch time.

Want to know what’s going to be on stage at next year’s Emmys? Esquire has the full rundown on what seems to be an excellent fall calendar of television. While some shows caught our eye, the one we feel strongly about has to be HBO’s The Deuce, created by the brilliant mind behind The Wire, David Simon. That and the fact that Stranger Things is back on 27 October for its sophomore season.

Then again, you may not want to make plans, because the world is scheduled to end this weekend. That’s according to a Christian numerologist who claims D-Day is next Saturday, when a planet is set to collide with Earth, Fox News says. The nutjob says he pinpointed the 23 September end-of-the-world date using codes from the Bible, as well as a “date marker” in the Pyramids of Giza here in Egypt.

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