Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Mohamad Adam Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/the-struggle-in-egypts-press-syndicate/ Weeks of tension between Egypt’s journalists and the state have left the Egyptian Syndicate of Journalists divided, while the Egyptian Interior Ministry came out unscathed. This marks another success in the state’s longstanding strategy...
Learn MoreSource: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Mohamed ElMeshad Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/63493 On April 13, 2016, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi held a 93-minute “conversation with representatives of the general public” that was in essence a speech. After the one and only attempt by an attendee to contribute, Sisi thundered, “I did not give anyone permission to speak!”...
Learn MoreSource: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/tiran-and-sanafir-islands-heart-online-protest In April 2016, the Egyptian government announced the signing of an agreement which transferred control of Tiran and Sanafir Islands from Egyptian to Saudi Arabian sovereignty. Since then, there has been heated...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Ragab Saad Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/in-egypt-journalism-is-a-crime/ In his September 2015 interview with CNN, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi boasted that Egypt is seeing “unprecedented media freedom.” However, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports that Egypt had the worst deterioration of...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Basil El-Dabh Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/breaking-news-and-inconsistent-media-standards-in-egypt/ Late Sunday night, following accounts on social media and unconfirmed reports of a tragedy, the Ministry of Interior confirmed that a group of Mexican tourists and their Egyptian guides had been mistakenly targeted by...
Learn MoreSource: Madamasr Author(s): Hossam Bahgat, Mostafa Mohie Original Link: https://www.madamasr.com/en/2015/07/26/feature/politics/exclusive-wikileaks-cables-trace-ebb-and-flow-of-egypt-uae-relations/ Snapshot: A number of documents from the Saudi Foreign Ministry that were recently released by Wikileaks have cast light on Egypt’s capricious relationship with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which...
Learn MoreSource: Madamasr Author(s): Hossam Bahgat Original Link: https://www.madamasr.com/en/2015/07/05/feature/politics/wikileaks-egyptian-media-and-journalists-go-to-saudi-for-financing/ Since the Wikileaks website began posting leaked documents from the Saudi Arabian government, the issue of the Kingdom financing Egyptian media channels, journalists and researchers has garnered major attention...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Hassan Mneimneh Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/reforming-religious-discourse-egypt Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has earned numerous accolades, domestic and international, for his repeated calls for religious discourse away from extremism. Sisi has expressed the conviction that the proclivity to radicalism and conflict is not...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Kareem Farid Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/how-egyptian-mainstream-media-cover-the-war-on-terror/ Around seven o’clock p.m. on January 29, 2015, social media websites reported that a terrorist attack had hit three North Sinai cities of Rafah, al-Arish, and Sheikh Zuweid. Questions regarding the attacks—the apparent...
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