The nation is in a three day period of mourning after 47 people were killed and 126 injured in two terrorist bombings yesterday that targeted Egypt’s Christian community. President Abdel Fattah El Sisi imposed last night a three-month state of emergency. The state of emergency would give authorities the power to make arrests and to enter and search homes, all without warrants. The measure will need to be rubber-stamped by the House of Representatives.

We have extensive coverage of yesterday’s events and international media coverage of it in Speed Round, below.

What to watch for today:

• What is entailed by a three-month state of emergency? What new powers will be granted the security service and / or the courts, which already enjoyed broad powers before the attacks? Mada Masr has some insights into what this could mean and how it might play out.
• Will yesterday’s tragedy curb the slow recovery in tourism we’ve seen over the past two months?
• How will the stock market react today, after closing yesterday down just 1.6%?
• Expect more clumsy editorials and columns from Western pundits about life and security for the nation’s Christians. Western pundits will also be critical of moves amend criminal procedure rules and take other measures to fast-track terror cases through the justice system.

One person to follow today if you want to understand the current Islamist terrorist landscape in Egypt and why “sectarian attacks by IS can do significant harm, but not [deliver] Levant[-scale] results”: Mokhtar Awad, from George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. Start with his Twitter feed, then read his “Why ISIS declared war on Egypt’s Christians,” written yesterday for the Atlantic. It is thanks to Awad, for example, that Western audiences are being reminded that the Ikhwan has tried to pass off yesterday’s terrorist massacre as a false flag operation (Arabic).

The Egyptian Exchange will open one minute late today to mourn the victims of the attack, Ahram Gate reports.