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Editors of blocked websites hold press conference: Editors-in-chief from some of the 21 websites blocked by the Ismail government for allegedly spreading fake news or being pro-terror condemned the ban at a press conference held at the Press Syndicate yesterday, Daily News Egypt reports. In a statement yesterday neither supporting nor condemning the ban, the […]
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Goldman Sachs sees millennials coming of age and say they are reshaping retail
You know millennials are coming of age when Goldman Sachs has its eye on them. The generation, one of the largest in history “is about to move into its prime spending years. Millennials are poised to reshape the economy; their unique experiences will change the ways we buy and sell, forcing companies to examine how […]
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A view from a Nile Cruise
A snapshot of Egypt: A river taxi is crossing the Nile is how French Instagram user Olivier Romano describes the image. Romano who has had three pictures featured by The Guardian. He took a cruise in the Nile from Aswan to Luxor on a ship built in 1885 for King Fouad.
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NGO Act dominates conversation on Egypt this morning
Leading the conversation on Egypt in the foreign media this morning is morenegative ink on the signing of the controversial NGO Act this week. First up has to be the Washington Post, whose partisan editorial board cannot go on a rest in blaming US President Donald Trump for “not lecturing” President Abdel Fattah El Sisi […]
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Libya targets being questioned
A number of outlets have taken to questioning who exactly Egypt is bombing inLibya. Sputnik Radio interviewed managing director of the Libya-Analysis consultancy and deputy director at Eye on ISIS in Libya, Rhiannon Smith, who questions the strategy of blanket bombing of terrorists, saying that the situation will only destabilize Libya further. Smith seems particular […]
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Sputnik says Egypt ready to counter US-Saudi policies regionally
No, don’t drag us into this: A defense analyst told semiofficial Russian media outlet Sputnik that the “closer relations” between Russia and Egypt show that both nations are “‘committed to counter’ the policies which Washington and Riyadh pursue in the Middle East.” The story also quotes a separate unnamed, Egypt-based expert as saying Egypt and […]
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Calls to reform Al Azhar aimed to change how it functioned
The proposed efforts to reorganize how Al Azhar is governed were designed not just to change things at senior levels, but were more audacious and aimed “to reach deep into its functioning,” Nathan Brown and Mariam Ghanem write in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The proposed amendments would have restricted the tenure of Al […]
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French solidarity group calls for support to Egypt against terrorism
French solidarity group l’Oeuvre d’Orient has called on the international community to “extend its action to Egypt and to support the struggle of the Egyptian State against terrorist groups,” following the terrorist attacks targeting Copts, Anne-Bénédicte Hoffner writes for La Croix. Hoffner writes that the motivation behind the attacks is “to condemn the government as […]
Posted inOn Deadline
The Ismail government’s ban on 21 websites is illegal in more ways than one
A state ban on some 21 news website accused of spreading fake news and / or of being pro-terror is being widely pilloried by the nation’s columnists. Ashraf El Barbary called the move illegal and unconstitutional in more ways than one. In a piece penned for Al Shorouk, El Barbary claims the fact that no […]