Nora Younis
Multimedia Editor
Before joining AlMasry AlYoum, Nora covered the Middle East for The Washington Post as well as other international print media. Her expertise in main stream journalism interweaves with her experience as a prominent blogger using new media tools; for which she was awarded Human Rights First Award in New York 2008. Nora joined AlMasry AlYoum August 2008 and heads a qualified multimedia desk team while working closely with reporters, photographers and caricaturists to bring you news in the most informative and amusing format. She also oversees citizen journalism pages.
Contributions
News
Thousands of protesters have been flocking to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to join pro-democracy protesters who are continuing their calls for President Hosni Mubarak's resignation.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Mubarak supporters have gathered at the...
If you went to Tunis, where the so-called Jasmine Revolution succeeded in ousting President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, you would not find a single jasmine tree in the street. Nor would you see protesters holding jasmine in their hands.
They...
Thousands of Tunisians, especially from poor rural areas, staged an open sit-in before government headquarters in the capital, demanding the dismissal of ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali’s loyalists from the transitional government....
Tunisia's Journalist Syndicate formed a crisis committee last Thursday to consider the urgent situation of the salaries of 200 journalists, executives, and technicians who worked for newspapers and radio stations that belonged to followers of...
An Egyptian citizen set himself on fire Monday at 9 AM in front of the People’s Assembly while shouting chants against the Egyptian security service, an eyewitness told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
While standing on the pavement opposite to parliament...
The head of the Egyptian Psychiatric Association, Ahmed Okasha, has joined the debate over the legitimacy of sex reassignment operations currently being performed on the 22-yr-old Islam Salah in Assiut.
Salah, who identifies as a woman and now goes...
Opinion articles
This piece was written for Egypt Independent's final weekly print edition, which was banned from going to press. We offer you our 50th and final edition here.
After a year of covering the Middle East for the Washington Post, I joined Al-Masry Al...
