Al Ahram chairman quits to protest interference by new regulator: Al Ahram Chairman Ahmed El Naggar has resigned to protest what he claimed is interference by the National Press Council in the management of the country’s newspapers, he tells Al Shorouk. According to El Naggar, the council requested that the newspapers’ managers not take any financial or managerial decisions without prior review by the council. The council accepted El Naggar’s resignation, Al Mal says, and has appointed board member Hisham Lotfy as the interim head of Al Ahram’s board of directors, council chief Karam Gabr said in a press conference, according to Al Shorouk.

Wasting no time at all, El Naggar could face a corruption probe after six members of Al Ahram’s board of directors announced they plan to file a complaint with the Prosecutor General on alleged corruption during El Naggar’s time as chairman, Al Mal reports.

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