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

Former senior reporter and travel editor.

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News coverage for Monday, 4 October includes features marking the 6th of October 1973 victory over Israel and front-page content focusing on the much-anticipated and rapidly approaching November parliamentary elections. Thus far, the lead-up to the...
A new Muslim Brotherhood (MB) student campaign has been launched under the name “The Reformers” to ostensibly show the “true face” of the younger ranks of the banned Islamic group--and the one-day-old campaign is already...
With state-owned Al-Ahram and Al-Akhbar newspapers focusing on President Hosni Mubarak’s Berlin summit, independent papers run headlines on the controversy over the Madinaty land sale and pro-democracy protests against the president’s...
An international report focusing on the plight of pro-democracy and human rights activists and associations that are working under tough political circumstances or are being persecuted by their host countries--especially in the Middle East--was...
Camillia Shehata is a Coptic Christian woman who “saw the light of truth” and wanted to convert to Islam, but was forcibly prevented from doing so by Egyptian authorities. She was arrested and locked away in a monastery, forever the...
Front page headlines in state-owned newspapers Al-Ahram and Al-Akhbar, in addition to other national newspapers, report that 14 parliamentarians from both the Shura Council and People's Assembly were stripped of their legal immunity over...
A group of Islamist lawyers have filed a lawsuit in an Egyptian administrative court against Coptic Pope Shenouda to compel him to release alleged Muslim convert Camillia Shehata. “Resorting to court is the most civilized and legal way to deal...
A meeting called by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement with leaders of Egypt’s top political factions appears to have yielded more differences than unity among opposition forces.  MB General Guide Mohamed Badie held the...
London--Is it acceptable to intervene in students’ practices? Is the perceived threat of extremism or radical thought good enough reason to step in? Is it wrong for university authorities on British campuses to ban the presence of inflammatory...
As contractors and parliamentarians, and even ruling party officials, blow the whistle on various state-owned land sale violations--with the government appearing to be guilty as charged--two questions rear their heads: Why has the sale of state land...