updated Sat. March 30, 2024
-
Al-Monitor
April 24, 2018
Egyptian journalist Rania al-Adawi told Al-Monitor that tourism programs inspired by Nufal's and other backpackers' trips could be organized from Russia or Europe to Egypt with a fixed itinerary, as well as with appropriate insurance schemes and protective measures for such long trips. Adham HamshariÃâà...
Middle East Media Research Institute
April 20, 2018
Egyptian journalist and TV host Ibrahim Eissa said that "the notion of the Caliphate is a commodity, which is shaped and sold by the merchants of illusion," such as Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, and Turkish President Erdoğan. "Egypt and all the Arab countries and peoples were occupied,Ãâà...
defenceWeb
April 13, 2018
Egyptian journalists. Egypt's state security prosecutor has summoned the former editor of a local newspaper and eight of its reporters for questioning over their coverage of the presidential election, the general secretary of the journalists syndicate said Thursday. The summons follows a complaint by theÃâà...
JNS.org
April 12, 2018
(April 11, 2018 / MEMRI) Egyptian journalist Dr. Hoda Zakariya, a lecturer on political sociology, said that while “there was some persecution of the Jews by Hitler,” the scope of the Holocaust is a “well-known historical rumor.” Speaking on the Egyptian DMC TV channel on Feb. 7, she complained that if you “made theÃâà...
Cleveland Jewish News
April 12, 2018
Egyptian journalist Dr. Hoda Zakariya, a lecturer on political sociology, said that while “there was some persecution of the Jews by Hitler,” the scope of the Holocaust is a “well-known historical rumor.” Speaking on the Egyptian DMC TV channel on February 7, she complained that if you “made the mistake”Ãâà...
Daily News Egypt
April 12, 2018
Five members of the council of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate issued a statement Wednesday denouncing the “raid on press freedom” and the detention of the editor-in-chief of Masr Al-Arabiya, Adel Sabry, over “null accusations.” In their statement, Gamal Abdelrehim, Mohamed Kharaga, Amr Badr,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 4, 2018
"Masr al-Arabia's editor-in-chief was arrested because the website is one of few independent news outlets in Egypt," Kotb al-Arabi, an Egyptian journalist and media analyst, told Al Jazeera. "Sabry was detained because the website's coverage of the elections was critical and didn't toe the official narrative,"Ãâà...
TRT World
March 30, 2018
“These steps are unprecedented in the history of Egypt, making Sisi's oppression worse than that of [Hosni] Mubarak or even [Gamal Abdel] Nasser,” who were the former presidents of Egypt, according to Walid el-Sheikh, an Egyptian journalist based in Berlin. Zawba compares today's Egypt with countriesÃâà...
The Guardian
March 25, 2018
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 20 Egyptian journalists were behind bars as of December last year. Egypt is described as one of “the world's biggest prisons for journalists”, by the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders, ranking 161 out of a total of 180 countries on their annualÃâà...
KWBU
March 24, 2018
It's jailed dozens of Egyptian journalists. Even a state TV host was taken into custody because he mentioned the wife of an army officer who was having trouble making ends meet, and he was charged with insulting the police. So, Audie, most people are very careful about what they say. But I spoke with anÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 24, 2018
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 20 Egyptian journalists are behind bars as of December last year. Egypt is described as one of “the world's biggest prisons for journalists”, by the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders, ranking 161 out of a total of 180 countries on their annualÃâà...
Bleacher Report
March 13, 2018
An Egyptian writer has called on Liverpool sensation Mohamed Salah to shave his beard because it "puts him in one basket with extremists.... and terrorists." Salah Montaser made the recommendation in state-run Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram (h/t Associated Press) on Sunday, and his comments drew fierce criticism onÃâà...
Egyptian Streets
March 11, 2018
An Egyptian journalist launched a new campaign titled 'My Arm is A Red Line' in attempts to raises awareness about the risks of some medical consequences that might occur in breast cancer patients. Inspired by her personal experience, Journalist Maha Nour, who is a breast cancer patient, narrated herÃâà...
The Economist
March 9, 2018
In the first years after the revolution, Egyptian journalists enjoyed a moment of freedom. But they closed ranks in 2012 after the Muslim Brotherhood was voted into office. Like much of the elite, journalists largely opposed the Islamist group. So the press broadly supported the coup in 2013 that brought MrÃâà...
Middle East Eye
March 8, 2018
The ongoing crackdown has seen security forces arrest Egyptian reporter Mai El-Sabagh and cameraman Ahmed Mustafa, in Alexandria last month on charges of filming without an authorisation. Sabagh's fiance wrote in a Facebook post that the two journalists who work for Raseef22, a Lebanon-basedÃâà...
Peace FM Online
March 6, 2018
A prominent Egyptian journalist has been released on bail after he was arrested on allegations of insulting the police, news agency AFP reports. Khairy Ramadan was detained on Sunday after he allegedly discussed low salaries paid to policemen on his show called Egypt Today on the public broadcasterÃâà...
Peace FM Online
March 5, 2018
A prominent Egyptian journalist has been released on bail after he was arrested on allegations of insulting the police, news agency AFP reports. Khairy Ramadan was detained on Sunday after he allegedly discussed low salaries paid to policemen on his show called Egypt Today on the public broadcasterÃâà...
Caj News Africa
February 21, 2018
CAIRO, (CAJ News) – MEDIA rights groups are worried about the whereabouts of a journalist arrested after published allegations of the military's involvement in the Egyptian revolution in 2011. Journalist Moataz Wadnan and three of his relatives were arrested on Friday at a check point in the suburb ofÃâà...
eNCA
February 21, 2018
JOHANNESBURG - An Egyptian reporter Moataz Wadnan, who was detained after conducting an interview with a political figure, has gone missing while in custody, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Wadnan, who reports for the Huffington Post Arabi based in Instanbul, was arrestedÃâà...
CPJ Press Freedom Online
February 20, 2018
New York, February 20, 2017--The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the detention and subsequent disappearance of Egyptian journalist Moataz Wadnan, and today called on the country's authorities to make public what they know about his whereabouts. Police on February 16 arrestedÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
February 12, 2018
(MENAFN) After being arrested last year for posting an internet meme critical of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, an Egyptian female journalist has been sentenced to five years in jail over "cannabis possession." A Cairo criminal court handed down the lengthy sentence to Asmaa Zidan on Saturday forÃâà...
Middle East Media Research Institute
February 9, 2018
Egyptian journalist and TV host Ibrahim Eissa said recently that the Palestinians who carried out the 1972 Munich Olympics attack on Israeli athletes were terrorists. "When people storm the Olympic games and the Olympic village, and kidnap athletes – even if they are Israelis – they cannot be calledÃâà...
The New Arab
February 8, 2018
Families are piecing together clues on the whereabouts of two young Egyptian journalists who went missing on Sunday in the capital Cairo. ... Two young Egyptian journalists who disappeared on Sunday are feared detained at a notorious Cairo security headquarters where torture is reportedly rife. HassanÃâà...
The Guardian
December 18, 2017
Human rights activists have demanded that Abbas's Twitter account be restored. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images. Twitter has faced criticism after the account of a prominent Egyptian journalist and campaigner was suspended. Wael Abbas wrote on Facebook that Twitter had sent “an email sayingÃâà...
The Hindu
December 31, 1999
File photo: An Egyptian journalist works at the editorial room of Al-Masry Al-Youm daily newspaper next to copies of Egypt's most prominent newspapers running black background front pages with Arabic that reads, “no to dictatorship, tomorrow free newspapers will obscure to protest the freedom'sÃâà...
New Zealand Herald
December 31, 1999
CAIRO (AP) — The Dubai government media office says two Egyptian freelance journalists who were arrested while reporting on the historic Alexandria tramway "have no connection" with Emirati-owned Al-Bayan news outlet. The office made the statement in an email Sunday, two days after May al-Sabbagh and AhmedÃâà...
