Noha El-Hennawy
Senior Reporter
Before joining Al-Masry Al-Youm, Noha had worked for the Los Angeles Times, Egypt Today Magazine, the Associated Press and the Cairo Times. She produced content for the Los Angeles Times from around the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Lebanon and Qatar. She also freelanced for several publications and wire services including the New York Times, Dow Jones and Daily News Egypt, a local division of the International Herald Tribune. Noha has just completed a master of science in digital journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She also holds a master of arts in comparative Middle East Politics from the American Unviersity in Cairo, where she did her undergraduate studies.
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In the midst of sectarian turmoil and a turbulent run-up to Sunday’s parliamentary polls, Facebook activists added fuel to the fire with calls for a nationwide protest this weekend.
The anonymous administrator of the Facebook page “We...
At least one person was killed and dozens injured on Wednesday when police and Coptic demonstrators clashed over the construction of a church in a poor neighborhood south of Cairo densely populated by Christians.
Nearly one thousand Coptic...
With polling stations are set to receive millions of voters on Sunday, Egyptian politicians and observers expect the new parliament to witness a remarkable retreat of Islamists, who, they say, will have to surrender their seats to the liberal Wafd...
Major state-owned newspapers on Sunday stress the regime’s unease with the US State Department annual report released last week on international religious freedom. The report voiced harsh criticism against the atmosphere of religious...
An Associated Press report on an international investigation into Egypt’s nuclear ambitions makes headlines in Egyptian newspapers on Sunday. Highlighted on Al-Shorouk’s front page, the report says the International Atomic Energy Agency...
Time Magazine dropped a bombshell on Wednesday with the claim that Egypt provided Israel intelligence tips to assist in the early November assassination of a Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip.
The Egyptian intelligence apparatus, according to...
In an unprecedented move in the history of party systems, Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) is fielding multiple candidates for the same seat in more than a hundred districts in the parliamentary poll set for 28 November.
On...
Front-page state-run and privately owned coverage in Tuesday's newspapers highlight the debate surrounding the National Democratic Party (NDP) decision to permit 800 party members to vie for the 508 contested seats in the impending parliamentary...
In an apartment in downtown Cairo, Khaled al-Balshy, editor of the “New Badeel”, has to multi-task in order to keep his new online venture afloat. From 8:30AM to midnight, he assigns stories to 40 reporters, receives feeds, edits copy...
In the early 1970s, Abdel Moneim Abou el-Fotouh was enrolled at Cairo University’s medical school. Back then, he did not approve of coeducation, music or watching football. The bearded young man dismissed all forms of entertainment as evil...
