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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Poverty is on the rise in Egypt, particularly in rural areas, according to a study released earlier this month by the government statistics agency. Analysts blame the worsening situation in rural governorates on the government’s bias towards...
Thousands of teachers demonstrated in front of the cabinet on Saturday against the slow pace of reforms in the Ministry of Education, in continuation of a widespread strike begun when the academic year started last Saturday, 17 September.
Saturday...
DADAAB, KENYA - When volunteers arrive at the Dabaab refugee camp on the Kenya-Somalia border, many believe they are coming to help Somalis suffering from the severe food shortage currently ravaging the horn of Africa. They are half right.
In fact,...
Teachers in government schools across Egypt have started their planned boycott of the new school year, demanding, among other things, better pay, a plan for improving school environments, an increase in funding for education, and the purging of...
Hundreds of students and faculty at Egypt’s two largest public universities held demonstrations on Tuesday calling for immediate university reform, and announcing a boycott of the new school year.
Student groups and university professors from...
In the wake of the recent attack on the Israeli Embassy, the Egyptian government has decided to reinstate the Emergency Law, with amendments that will expand its reach to political demonstrations and media reporting. Independent paper Al-Shorouk...
When he scaled the diminutive building adjacent to the one hosting the Israeli Embassy, Mostafa al-Sayed did not think that his actions - along with around 25 others - would have as wide-ranging implications as they did.
Since protesters broke into...
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) sent out a petition on Sunday, demanding that the government form an independent fact-finding commission into what it calls “the violations” against inmates in Egyptian prisons since 25...
The North Cairo Criminal Court has postponed the testimonies of Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces Sami Anan to 24 and 25 September, judicial sources have said.
On Wednesday the court summoned Tantawi to...
Around 30,000 protesters gathered in Tahrir Square Friday to protest the ruling military council's performance and their numbers continued to rise into the late afternoon for the demonstration dubbed “Correcting the Path of the Revolution...
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