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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President Mohamed Morsy can’t seem to shake Muslim Brotherhood Shura Council deputy Khairat el-Shater out of his beard, as the Guidance Bureau and the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party leaders reportedly met and internally proposed...
Many Egyptians have not yet sobered from the ecstasy of finally getting a civilian president, for the first time in the history of the 60-year-old republic.
But only a few days after the announcement of Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate...
Sunday was a day of tears, jubilation, and reverie at the Mohamed Morsy campaign headquarters in Downtown Cairo. After the head of the Presidential Election Committee, Farouk Sultan, gave an agonizingly long speech before finally announcing...
The 2012/13 budget was expected to be the first in Egypt’s history that would be approved and implemented by a democratically elected Parliament. On Thursday, the Cabinet sent the budget to the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) for...
“I can’t vote for the Brotherhood. They will slit my child’s throat in front of me,” said Kamel, a 53-year-old taxi driver. Kamel has seen videos of so-called extremist Islamists beheading infidels in the middle of the street...
When Hosni Mubarak was president, Kamel Ahmed would sit in a furnished garage next to a busy intersection in Cairo’s Manial neighborhood, discussing campaign strategies with others working for Fathy Gleed, a former candidate for Mubarak’...
This week, Parliament released a report on Wednesday outlining their achievements after 120 days in office, just around a month after it released a 100-day report.
The oddly-timed report was released in the week following the official announcement...
Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh said on Monday that the results of the first round of the presidential election should not be trusted, and accused the government of manipulating the process and other candidates of buying votes.
“I cannot call these...
Outside Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh’s campaign headquarters, a fast food delivery man is getting ready to deliver around 50 lunch boxes to a bunch of tired young campaigners. After working hard promoting their candidate for well over a...
During the Mubarak years, Egypt lost a great deal of its international clout as the main regional power broker and — during the Nasser years — the reference point for Arab politics. Most presidential candidates see that Egypt has reached...
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