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TV host accused of libeling judges released on bail
Egypt Independent 22 Oct 2012
Well-known journalist and TV host Wael al-Ibrashy was released on LE100,000 bail after being interrogated for eight...
Security measures in front of main headquarter of Muslim Brotherhood in Moqattam, Cairo, 23 August 2012, as political powers called for million-man rally on 24 August against President Mohamed Morsy.
Brotherhood accuses reporters of harassment
Al-Masry Al-Youm 11 Oct 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood has accused reporters of harassment in a report filed with the Interior Ministry, a security...
Egyptian newspapers
State-owned papers' management up for grabs
Omar Halawa 03 Jul 2012
In the run-up to the presidential election, the Shura Council began setting criteria for appointing the leaders of...
وجدي غنيم ، داعية إسلامي
Preacher calls for media purge
Al-Masry Al-Youm 03 Jul 2012
Wagdy Ghoneim, a Muslim preacher, called upon President Mohamed Morsy to “purge the media immediately, including...
Daily News Egypt leaves a legacy of independent journalism
Rana Khazbak 23 Apr 2012
The website of Egypt’s only independent English-language daily newspaper, Daily News Egypt, was taken off the web...
A journalist casts her vote in Journalists syndicate elections, Cairo, October 26,2011. nearly 6000 journalists will vote for a new board after the Supreme Administrative Court revoked a prior lower court ruling canceling the elections.
Journalists accuse SCAF of inciting against media
Al-Masry Al-Youm Staff 20 Dec 2011
Journalists on Tuesday accused the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) of inciting Egyptians against...
Anti-military rule protestors demonstrate at Tahrir square in Cairo, December 2, 2011. Egypt awaited the delayed publication of results for the opening phase of its first elections since the overthrow of veteran president Hosni Mubarak which are expected to confirm an Islamist sweep.
Mainstream press rallies against Tahrir demand for national salvation government
Rime Naguib 03 Dec 2011
When debate around a national salvation government (NSG) raged in the press two weeks ago, many opponents advanced...
Egypt Independent
Time for something new
EE staff 24 Nov 2011
Like everything in Egypt, Al-Masry Al-Youm English Edition is changing. After more than two years on the web, we are...
A group of journalists in protest against state-owned papers, Press Syndicate, Cairo, February 20, 2011. Demonstrators demanded Armed Forces Supreme Council take action against alleged wasting of public money and to hold state-owned paper boards' accountable.
Reporters Without Borders condemns security attacks on journalists
Staff 24 Nov 2011
  Reporters Without Borders, an international organization that monitors press freedom, has condemned assaults on...
File photo of Ali al-Selmy, Deputy Prime Minister for Political Development and Democratic Transformation, during an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm, 26 July, 2011.
Deputy PM excludes chief editors from Supreme Press Council
Dalia Othman 03 Nov 2011
In a move reminiscent of the Mubarak regime, Deputy Prime Minister Ali al-Selmy, who recently proposed a controversial...