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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Khairat al-Shater, the Muslim Brotherhood's primary presidential candidate, held the very first rally of his campaign in front of a packed auditorium at Al-Azhar University on Tuesday. It didn’t go exactly as planned.
Despite the large...
As Mubarak’s only vice president ever and former head of the General Intelligence Services, Omar Suleiman’s candidacy seems to be scaring the living daylights out of political forces in Egypt.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s daily Freedom...
Kamal al-Helbawy is taking a break from a busy day of media interviews and meetings with revolutionaries to eat grilled fish at a simple seafood restaurant in Nasr City. The 73-year-old has just taken his first bite when a man wearing a pullover and...
There are a few places one can see pictures of George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tamer Hosny and Cristiano Ronaldo all grouped together in one frame: gossip magazines, pamphlets for celebrity fundraisers, the video of an ill-conceived goodwill song...
It is hard to go anywhere in Cairo these days without the watchful eyes of Hazem Salah Abu Ismail following you. Posters for the Salafi presidential candidate are plastered to car windshields, alleyway walls, lamp posts and highway dividers. This...
Former Housing Minister Ibrahim Suleiman was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined LE2.8 billion on Thursday for his role in facilitating corrupt land deals while he served in Hosni Mubarak’s cabinet, joining several other former regime...
Fire leaps out of the vat of fry oil Hatem uses to make falafel at his small restaurant. Usually, this is an accident and an occupational hazard that occurs when water makes contact with the hot oil. But this time, it’s intentional. Hatem is...
A coalition of economists, activists and academics are condemning the government’s economic reform plan put forward by the Ministry of International Cooperation to help ensure a US$3.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund.
In a...
Less than a day after Abul Ezz al-Hariry announced his candidacy for president of Egypt he filed a lawsuit calling for the High Elections Commission to halt the elections.
Throughout his political career, Hariry, who is running on behalf of the...
The death of Pope Shenouda III dominates the front pages of all the newspapers today, a day after the first day of his body’s viewing at the Abbasseya Cathedral. The pope died on Saturday night, after press time for most newspapers, and so...
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