media crackdown

An Egyptian criminal court began on Saturday the trial of opposition journalist Hamdy Qandil accused of libeling Foreign Minister Ahmed…

Al-Hayat Television has issued a statement on Thursday in response to a letter received two days ago from the Central…

In reply to an editorial published earlier this week in the Washington Post about the Egyptian government's crackdown on independent…

Egyptian Minister of Information has canceled all licenses of firms providing television satellite uplinks, a further step in a crackdown…

Within the last decade, bearded preachers have appeared on satellite channels in increasing numbers to stress the need to revive…

Egypt, thanks to the global deterioration in media freedoms, moved upward to be ranked 127th among the 178 countries included…

Egypt on Tuesday suspended the broadcast licenses of 12 satellite channels--mostly devoted to religious themes--and issued warnings to 20 others…

 

State-owned flagship newpaper Al-Ahram takes an unsurprising route on such a patriotic national holiday. Its front-page lead article centers on…