Mohamed Elmeshad
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Mohamed Elmeshad graduated in 2006 with a B.S. in Economics and a Minor in Journalism from the George Washington University. He worked in Benin as a Peace Corps Volunteer between 2006-2008 where he focused on Small Enterprise Development and other educational projects. This was followed by two years as a Corporate Analyst at a Private Equity firm in Bahrain. He joined Al-Masry Al-Youm in November 2010. Mohamed enjoys long walks on the beach and star-shaped pickles.
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Two days are left until what many expect to be Egypt’s first democratic presidential election, and so the imposed “campaign silence” — when candidates are supposed to refrain from any kind of campaigning — begins Monday...
Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister under deposed President Hosni Mubarak, and Hamdeen Sabbahi, a lifelong dissident, would appear to have little in common as presidential candidates.
Nonetheless, Hossam, a 35-year-old engineer, has recently found...
The scene has become familiar: streets splashed with rubble and broken glass; torn down sign posts leading to barricades of scrap metal manned by weary volunteers; exhausted doctors outside a makeshift field hospital; tents filled with young men and...
Rock throwing and birdshot fire broke out in Abbasseya Square on Wednesday evening, injuring two protesters. At least 11 are dead after a new wave of clashes between protesters and unidentified attackers using Molotov cocktails and other weapons...
Presidential candidates are out and about on Labor Day trying to gather support from laborers, a key constituency. While laborers are not a homogeneous group ideologically, they do represent around 5 million Egyptians of voting age and representing...
The media and economists frequently ring alarm bells about Egypt’s bleeding treasury and looming cash crisis. It is not uncommon to see doomsday analysis in newspapers about the country going completely bankrupt.
There is less than a month...
Cairo University, Egypt’s largest public university, voted for its student union this year weeks after the vote was initially scheduled, due to strikes over electoral regulations holding up the process. Al-Azhar University has yet to have...
Under different circumstances, Nesreen Magdy would be finishing her third year at university studying hospitality. While the rest of her friends spend their days in classes and their nights studying or socializing, the 20-year-old has dedicated her...
A slow day of political news, but the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi have been very busy, according to the state papers. Speaking at a “Third army” military show, Tantawi said that the only reason...
Since 10 potential candidates were disqualified from the presidential election on Saturday, including three anticipated frontrunners, Egypt’s electoral landscape has been dramatically altered.
One thing that hasn’t changed with Saturday...
