Pakinam Amer
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en

Former senior reporter and travel editor.

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"The President is with you" read Rose al-Youssef's front-page headline today in its coverage of the aftermath of the flash floods and torrential rains that have hit Sinai and Upper Egypt, swamping several villages and port cities, causing...
Qena--In Naga Hammadi, the sadness over the death of six young church deacons on the eve of Coptic Christmas has not faded away. Eight days later, the house of Farid Labib, father of the late 16-year-old Bishoy, the youngest victim of the act of of...
Around 30 bloggers and activists were released Saturday after being briefly detained in Qena's Security Directorate. The young men and women were apprehended in Naga Hammadi's train station, southern Qena, after traveling from Cairo to offer...
Around 30 Cairo-based bloggers and activists were arrested Friday morning on their way to Naga Hammadi, a town in the southern province of Qena, and the site of recent sectarian clashes between Muslims and Christians and a fatal shooting that killed...
Was the recent shooting of six Copts and a Muslim security guard in the Upper Egyptian town of Nagga Hamadi an isolated incident? Or was the attack indicative of a deep-rooted and escalating problem? To help make sense of these events, Al-Masry Al-...
Egyptian Press on Sunday followed on the aftermath of the death of six Coptic Christians and a Muslim security guard in the town of Naga Hammadi in southern Qena Governorate. State-owned papers described the incident as "an act of terrorism...
Qena – Except for scattered scuffles with Muslims reported by Coptic Christians, Naga Hammadi experienced a relative quiet on Friday, amid heavy security presence, two days after six Church deacons and a Muslim security guard were shot dead,...
Qena -- Less than 24 hours earlier the Church of Mar Yohanna was full of prayers and singing, much color and signs of festivities, despite an air of caution, on Coptic Christmas Eve, but the next morning, on Thursday, the scene was different, as...
Qena--Seven people have been killed in a drive-by shooting outside a church in Egypt as Christians left a late night mass on the eve of Coptic Christmas. Officials said three men in a car drove by a group of worshippers as they were walking out of...
Qena-–In the biggest church in Farshout, a town harboring a little less than 60,000 inhabitants in Upper Egypt’s Naga Hamady, a lone worshiper stood among the benches as Father Elisha’ Hilal sang his prayers and two children...