Ekram Ibrahim
Reporter
Ekram is a graduate in journalism and mass communication from the American University in Cairo. She is currently finishing her master's in the same field. Since graduating in 2006 she has worked as a full-time assistant to the chairman of Nahdet Misr Publishing group. She also freelances for Community Times and several other youth magazines.
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Al-Ahram state-run newspaper leads with the approval of a new law on workers' rights by the People's Assembly.
“Ensuring the rights of employees in companies on sale is a priority,” reads the headline. The law was drafted to tackle problems arising...
Coptic divorcee Hani Wasfi has raised a lawsuit against the Coptic Church’s refusal to allow him to remarry. Wasfi won a court ruling earlier from a lower court, which the church appealed but lost last week.
Wasfi’s case isn't the first of its kind...
Coptic Pope Shenouda III held a press conference today in which he announced a decision by the Coptic Holy Synod vis-a-vis an administrative court ruling issued last month obliging the church to allow divorced Copts to remarry.
“The Coptic Church is...
Both state-run and independent newspapers lead with the story of President Mubarak’s meeting with US Vice President Joe Biden in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, to discuss regional tension over a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid convoy...
Last month American University in Cairo professors heard the defense of a thesis on the representation of Christians in Egyptian cinema, from the early forties until present day.
Dina Samir is the first master's student at AUC to tackle such an...
Every newspaper leads with news about the Israeli attack on a flotilla organized by Free Gaza Movement in which up to 19 international activists were killed and around 50 injured. Al-Ahram and Al-Akhbar report that President Hosni Mubarak voiced his...
Al-Dostour and Al-Shorouq focus today on the streets in front of the People's Assembly, which are calm for the first time in months after protesting workers were cleared out yesterday.
Egyptian newspapers also report on a meeting between Prime...
Fossil fuel reserves are rapidly decreasing consequently environment specialists and governments worldwide are fetching for alternative sources of energy to comply with the demand.
One of the directions Egypt is looking into is solar energy just...
The Egyptian government has passed a so-called “limited version” of the unpopular Emergency Law. But critics see the move as little more than a cosmetic change.
Government spokespeople insist the law will only apply to cases of terrorism and drug...
Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has formally asked parliament to extend the Emergency Law for another two years, adding new legal restrictions on both its scope and application.
The prime minister spoke today before the People's Assembly, and...
