Lina Attalah
Chief 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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Copenhagen--This city has been overtaken by some 34,000 delegates representing government and non-government actors as they come together to debate the future of global climate change during the two-week-long United Nations Climate Change Conference...
The first sign says it's a National Democratic Party (NDP) office. Another establishes it as a Ministry of Social Solidarity local unit. A third sign claims it belongs to "El Wayli Kindergarten." But really, the building is a synagogue, a...
While Egypt is playing a key role in negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis over a possible prisoner exchange, the country has little to say about its own share of Palestinian prisoners, the number of which is unknown.
Most Palestinian...
In a new release, Hagat wahshani (Things that I miss), musician Hazem Shaheen bounces between compositions and taqassim (Arabic melodic improvisations), bringing back distant memories related to musical form in particular and childhood in general....
Two ferries crossing the Nile River between the two coasts of Rashid and Kafr el-Sheikh collided, causing the death of at least five people, while about 80 went missing, sources on site said Friday.
According to witnesses, the two boats collided in...
Sharm el-Sheikh--Despite a relatively open internet environment in Egypt, censorship is enacted in a variety of forms, say advocates of freedom of expression. Such limitations in Egypt and elsewhere have prompted international initiatives to work...
While the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Egypt is low, its treatment, care and support are in need of a bolster. This is because a combination of factors - overpopulation, poverty and illiteracy - increase the risks of an epidemic, say human rights and...
The two recent World Cup qualifying matches between Egypt and Algeria, the source of so much local media hype, were largely attributed to political considerations in the foreign media.
The tension began with the first match on 14 November, when...
Sharm el-Sheikh -- There are a number of rules governing Internet access, not least of which is the need for licensed software. But how can such rules infringe upon one's ability to stay connected?
At the fourth annual Internet Governance Forum,...
Sharm el-Sheikh--At the opening session of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Minister of Communication and Information Technology Tarek Kamel announced that Egypt would apply the following day for a top-level domain name in Arabic (dot.masr). The...
Opinion articles
I don’t expect the state to be creative, because power is an end in many ways, and only a threat to power is conducive to the state going outside of its comfort zone.
I don’t expect the state to be creative, because creativity is put...
I spent days grappling with the difficulty of identifying ways of remembering 25 January — and we’re only down to the second anniversary. Every possible story seems to have been told and retold. Barracks have been cast on both...
During the painful Ettehadiya battle earlier this month between Brotherhood supporters and youthful opposition, the violence was not just physical. The scene was also a battlefield of chants. We chanted, “horriya” (freedom). They...
Bashing the Egyptian state for its utter failure in Sinai is no longer news. But some microcosmic incidents still illustrate the state’s impotence in dealing with the tumultuous border area.
Indeed, Sinai can serve as a laboratory in which one...
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...
