Latest in Tag: TV Highlight
Latest in Tag: TV

Reality TV contestant hopes to save Egyptâs dying handicrafts
Al Naharâs El Mashrou3 grants Asmaa Hassan EGP 15,000 to support hand decoration

âBeyond Moreâ minimises the gap between Egyptian and foreign students: Mostafa Metwalli
Mostafa Metwalli, one of the participants in El Mashrou3, seeks funding for his project

El Mashrou3 is the first-ever reality TV Show about entrepreneurship in Egypt
El Mahrou3 show is about 14 young Egyptians that have dreams to change Egypt.

El-Beblawi explains cabinet’s decision to label Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation
Government will only change our strategy when it is convinced it is wrong, says the Prime Minister

Panasonic to exit plasma TV display business
The move would fall in line with a broader industry shift away from plasma units, with Hitachi and Pioneer also exiting the market in recent years.

Polarised, politicised and biased: Covering Egypt
In Egyptâs dire political situation, one of the most important ways to understand the complexities of the situation is the media; supposedly the institution that seeks to find the truth and present it to its audience. However, in Egyptâs case, much of the local media is polarised, politicised and biased, and international media as well does not serve as an alternative for objective reporting due to the many challenges it faces. The Daily News Egypt reviews the positions of local and international media coverage of Egyptâs latest events, and the different narratives that are presented.

We’re close to the point I did not want to reach: Prime Minister
Prime Minister Hazem El Beblawi says the government wants to give Pro-Morsi protesters a chance
Al Faraeen Channel shut down mid-broadcast
Al Faraeen Channel was shut down Thursday night, Ministry of interior denied rumours about arrest of owner Tawfiq Okasha

Maspero in crisis: report
The AFTE also claimed former head of the state-run TV sector Essam El-Amir resigned last December because of intervention in the coverage of the presidential palace clashes.

YouTube launches paid channels, in TV challenge
The move puts Google into direct competition with services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon

Abdallah Badr arrested
Controversial TV anchor given one-year prison sentence for defaming actress Elham Shahin

Investment department at Administrative Court dismisses charges against Bassem Youssef’s Al Bernameg
Court said the plaintiff does not have the right to ask for the programme to be suspended
Review: Op-Eds fueled against Morsiâs late interview
Sunday night turned into Monday morning with Egyptians still waiting for an anticipated television interview with President Mohamed Morsi. The president offered no explanation for the delay, and several newspaper columnists criticized Morsi for leaving millions of citizens waiting late at night for the long-awaited interview. The broadcast was supposed to begin at 8 pm …

Shake it, shake it baby!
On the long wait for Morsi’s interview, and the Harlem Shake!

Until TV do us part
Adel Heine’s weekly column
Media plan blackout against Morsy
Newspapers to shut down on Tuesday, TV on Wednesday

Editor’s letter: Beneath the Belgian chocolate crust
Beneath the Belgian chocolate crust

Okasha calls for sit-in in front of Nile Sat premises
Nile Sat refuses to re-broadcast El-Fara’een channel

Tawfik Okasha found not guilty of insulting the president
Thirty cases have been filed against the controversial television host.

Media freedom tested as morning show investigated
Guestâs comments misunderstood by investigators says director of Neharak Saâid

Editorâs letter: Fight or work for Egyptian TV
Why do they hate the media? And who are they?

Bible burner Abu Islam set for trial
Abu Youssef denies reports that investigations have begun into Bible burning

Morsy addresses Egyptian and foreign audiences
Egyptian president interviewed by NYT and State TV on Saturday

Veiled newscasters on state TV
is the appearance of a veiled newscaster a step towards deepening democracy and ending the discriminations or is it a step towards discrimination against non-veiled women and perhaps even against those women who do not wear the niqab as well?
Clinical death
As the world’s media have rushed to compete on the wave of rapid developments sweeping across the globe, Egyptâs state media focuses on a different story. The Maspero building – with its entire internal and external staff – keep drowning in deep and unchartered waters of corruption, misconduct and a performance far away from the …
A pointless piece of cloth debate
Few hours after Fatma Nabil has read the 12 oâclock news bulletin in her full cream-colored veil, the Egyptian media sphere has quivered with endless controversial discussions on the extent to which the entire country is deliberately being âIkhwanisedâ. Being the first Egyptian female newsreader ever to appear on Egyptâs state television, the move assuredly …
Okasha: a mere political amusement
The news that the trial of Tawfik Okasha, the controversial media figure and owner of Al Faraâeen TV station, has been adjourned to 3 October tempts one to conjecture the initial reasons behind having a satellite channel as such. Particularly flourishing after the revolution, Okasha, who no one had ever heard about before, has suddenly …

Ramadan TV series trumps politics
While political debate in Egypt had at one point taken on a sense of political tele-drama it has still somehow been eclipsed by television’s entertainment dramas

Government to raise TV fees
With the current economic circumstances facing the governmentâs various sectors, the issue of revenue once again rises to the fore.