Latest in Tag: al masry al youm Highlight
Latest in Tag: al masry al youm

On foreign journalists and criticism – a response to Ahmed Derini in Al-Masry Al-Youm
Derini thinks that critical and foreign journalists want to see Egypt fail before it has had chance to succeed; that they are trying to criticise it into collapse. He does not consider that there could be other motivations behind the work we do

Campaign for hundreds of suspended journalists starts with Press Syndicate protest
Around 800 staff have been dismissed from media outlets in the last year, according to campaign’s spokesperson

Revolutionary figures angered by media claims of opposition government in Germany
Activists and prominent figures deny unsubstantiated report in Al-Masry Al-Youm

Continued attacks on journalists
Two photographers assaulted at Rabaa Al-Adaweya sit-in

It’s the people, not the paper
In another country, at another time, writing about the Egypt Independent might be considered writing about the competition. After all, there are only a few English-language dailies in Egypt – and fewer that are not reliant on state funding. But writing about the Egypt Independent is not writing about a competitor – it’s writing about …