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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News
ARISH - Moussa al-Delh, a member of Sinai’s influential Tarabeen tribe, was a fugitive before Egypt’s uprising began in January, accused of inciting violence against Egyptian security forces in the peninsula. Now he sits at a café...
Today’s papers are still running follow-ups to last week’s major stories, such as the prosecutions of former regime figures and the appointment of new governors.
Privately owned daily Youm7 runs what it calls exclusive transcripts of...
Deposed President Hosni Mubarak made his first public appearance since 10 February on Wednesday morning, this time in a court cage, as a defendant in a much-anticipated trial on charges of corruption and killing protesters during the...
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf spoke for a few minutes on Saturday, vowing to accelerate prosecutions of those who killed the revolution’s martyrs and ensure, through a committee of experts, that social justice is achieved. But that didn’t...
An Al-Masry Al-Youm-sponsored initiative inviting the Freedom Flotilla 2 to sail from Egypt after the Gaza-bound convoy was prevented from leaving Greece has been well-received in Egypt and abroad.
Al-Masry Al-Youm published an editorial on the...
Laila Shereen Sakr, digitally known as VJ Um Amel, speaks fondly about the real-time mixing between theory and practice. Her project, R-Shief, launched in early June, illustrates this new methodological approach to questioning and learning.
R-Shief...
For the first time in its modern legal history and after various failed attempts, Egypt might see its first freedom of information draft law in the next few weeks.
The proposed law would establish a process by which Egyptian citizens can access...
In May, Al-Masry Al-Youm met with Tom Malinowski, Human Rights Watch Washington director, who visited Egypt last month briefly after spending some days in Libya. Drawing on his foreign affairs expertise and his organization’s...
A new law for parliament drafted by a coalition of political forces figured consistently in today’s front pages. State-run Al-Ahram gave the general features of the law, which will be circulated tomorrow, reporting that the parliamentary...
Rafah – A few months ago, it was a construction site busy with cranes and drills, 80 meters from the Gaza-Egypt border. Now the site of the underground wall originally built in the border town of Rafah to obstruct smuggling activities is no...
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...
