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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As the Muslim Brotherhood strives to convince different political forces to rally behind its candidate in the upcoming presidential runoff, the debate intensifies over what the Brothers could give in return. Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsy is...
In Egypt’s unpredictable presidential poll, the two most controversial contenders emerged triumphant to qualify for next month’s run-off amid fears that either candidate's victory may deal a blow to the 25 January revolution. On 16...
Amid a fluctuating turnout and a number of legal violations, polling stations opened their doors on Wednesday to more than 50 million eligible voters in Egypt’s much-anticipated post-revolution presidential elections. Egyptians are expected to...
As preliminary results of overseas voting put the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate at the front of the presidential race, the organization concluded its campaign last night from the heart of Cairo with confidence that its nominee would achieve...
Eager to prove their candidate’s commitment to women’s rights and empowerment, the campaign for Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh’s presidential bid organized a rally of hundreds of women on Tuesday in a Cairo conference hall. The crowd...
  On Friday morning, Nader Bakkar, wearing a white robe, ascends to a mosque pulpit and delivers a sermon to worshippers performing weekly congregational prayers. During the rest of the week, Bakkar dons a business suit and a necktie and...
In light of the imminent failure of political groups to draft a permanent constitution before a new president is elected, the debate resumes on the best temporary constitutional framework that can regulate power sharing between different branches of...
On the eve of Egypt’s anticipated presidential poll, tension is mounting between the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis, after the latter have declined to back the Brotherhood’s presidential nominee and opposed its calls to bring down the...
Today’s issue of the Muslim Brotherhood’s mouthpiece newspaper, Freedom and Justice, attests to the mounting tension between the Brotherhood and Salafis. The feud is the outcome of the Salafi Dawah’s decision last week not to back...
As the race heats up between the nation’s two leading Islamist presidential candidates, the Muslim Brotherhood is mixing its new-found political rhetoric with the more comfortable — and potentially popular — religious discourse...