Tue 22 May 2012
Lina Attalah
Managing Editor
Lina studied journalism at the American University in Cairo. Before joining Al-Masry Al-Youm English Edition, she wrote for Reuters, Cairo Times, the Daily Star, and the Christian Science Monitor, among others. In 2005, she worked as radio producer and campaign coordinator with the BBC World Service Trust in Darfur, Sudan. She also worked as project manager for a number of research-based projects with multi-media outputs around the themes of space, mobility, and intellectual history. Lina is particularly drawn to border areas, where human geography issues of conflict and desire are rampant.
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News
Today’s papers are still taken by the presidential elections mayhem, focusing on the excluded candidates’ quest to re-enter the race.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s mouthpiece, Freedom and Justice, defiantly runs a home page of only...
The local press in Egypt are still fiery about 16 American NGO workers, banned from travel by an Egyptian court after being accused of working illegally in the country and receiving illicit funds, being allowed to leave. Many see the case as clear...
Privately-owned dailies are still running follow-ups on last week’s police raids of NGOs accused of illegally receiving foreign funds. The government has been investigating 17 Egyptian and international NGOs. Al-Shorouk, a privately-owned...
Amid the parliamentary elections hype, the ruling military council's statements about its role in the writing of the constitution continue to make headlines.
In the privately-owned Al-Shorouk, a front-page headline reads, “Opposition to...
Front-page headlines reflecting fears and confusions about the electoral process have become a common in recent papers, just two weeks ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled to start on 28 November.
“Chaos threatens a civil war before...
Israel is still holding activists and journalists on board the Freedom Waves boats to Gaza, which were intercepted and caught on Friday afternoon in international waters.
According to Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian lawyer providing the detainees with...
Lina Attalah, Al-Masry Al-Youm English's managing editor, recently took part in the "Freedom Waves" flotilla carrying aid to Gaza. She was captured at sea by Israeli security forces on Friday along with the rest of the passengers...
INTERNATIONAL WATERS, Eastern Mediterranean — At less than 150 nautical miles from the Gaza Strip's shores, activists on board the Tahrir solidarity boat are expecting potential Israeli intervention at any point, though there has been no...
INTERNATIONAL WATERS, Eastern Mediterranean - The 12 passengers aboard the Tahrir, a Canadian boat attempting to bring medical aid and a message of solidarity to the besieged Gaza Strip along with another ship, are frantically preparing for their...
FETHIYE, Turkey - "It doesn't matter what we do for Gaza this month or this year. What matters is how many years we stay with Gaza,” said David Heap, a member of the steering committee of “Tahrir,” a Canadian ship...
Opinion articles
Amid Egypt's troubled transition, news from Sinai is emerging again, albeit in its old familiar form. Lawlessness is the story of the arid peninsula, which is home to an intricate set of historic, political, social and economic conditions that...
I was recently sipping a cup of tea in Café Riche, Downtown Cairo’s 100-year-old café. I sat next to one of its windows, fenced with interlocking iron wires to close it off from the hurling sounds of the busy heart of town. As I was gazing at the...
