Egyptian media

Illustrative: Logos of US online social media and social networking service Facebook. (AFP Photo/Loic Venance)

June 29, 2018, 8:31 am

With cries of ‘false news,’ Egypt looks to monitor popular social media users

Under new bill, users with 5,000 followers would be supervised by Supreme Council for Media Regulation, which would be able to suspend accounts

By Bassem Aboualabass and Aziz El Massassi

David Govrin, Israel's ambassador in Egypt, speaking at a celebration marking the 70th anniversary of Israel at Nile Ritz Carlton hotel in Cairo, May 8, 2018. (Foreign Ministry)

May 9, 2018, 11:01 am

Israel celebrates its Independence Day in Cairo for first time since Arab Spring

Embassy party at Cairo hotel draws ire of local media; Ambassador David Govrin hails improving ties with Arab world

By AP and TOI staff

An Egyptian man reads a newspaper in the Zamalek district in Cairo, on October 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

April 6, 2018, 5:49 pm

Dismissal follows article about state officials promising cash for votes in March election which Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi won almost unopposed

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

UK journalist Bel Trew who was expelled from Egypt in February 2018 (Screencapture/ YouTube)

March 24, 2018, 1:22 pm

Egypt deports British reporter in media crackdown ahead of elections

Bel Trew, who works for The Times of London, says she was arrested, expelled and warned not to come back

By AP

Egyptian atheist Mohammad Hashem at the 'Alhadath Alyoum' TV studio (screen capture)

March 2, 2018, 7:31 pm

Atheist kicked off Egyptian TV, advised to see psychiatrist

Host, cleric attack non-believer for rejecting god, with the former apologizing to viewers for bringing in ‘confused, destructive’ guest

By TOI staff

This photo from February 16, 2016, provided by OSN, shows actors taking a 'selfie' at the end of OSN's "Saturday Night Live Arabia," show in Cairo, Egypt. (OSN via AP)

February 13, 2018, 10:06 am

Egypt bars Arabic version of SNL over ‘ethical violations’

Regulator censors local adaptation of US satire show for ‘sexual expressions, phrases, and gestures which are not suitable for viewers’

By AFP

A picture taken on November 25, 2017, shows the Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometres west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, after a gun and bombing attack. (AFP Photo/Stringer)

December 2, 2017, 6:15 pm

Egyptian TV panelists pin Sinai mosque massacre on Israel and ‘the Jews’

Participants in debate say attack in which over 300 were killed is part of Mossad plot to empty peninsula of its inhabitants, replace them with Palestinians

By TOI staff

Illustrative image of two Egyptian daily newspaper from Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, the state-owned Al-Gomhuria newspaper, (bottom), and the independent daily, El-Watan. (AP Photo)

September 6, 2017, 5:30 pm

Rights group: Egypt exerts growing control over local media

Reporters Without Borders says journalists are being monitored and at least 424 anti-government websites blocked

By AP

The head of the Egyptian journalists' union, Yahiya Kallash, center, speaks next to members of the association during an emergency general assembly on May 4, 2016, at their headquarters in Cairo. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

November 19, 2016, 3:12 pm

Egypt sentences journalist union head to two years in jail

Court says three men harbored ‘fugitives,’ sheltering two journalists wanted over anti-regime protests

By AFP

Egyptian TV host Khadija Khatab (YouTube screenshot)

August 18, 2016, 10:36 am

Egypt TV suspends ‘overweight’ female hosts

Eight presenters told they must diet and restore ‘appropriate appearance,’ causing local outcry

By TOI staff

Egyptian journalist Liliane Daoud. (YouTube screen capture)

June 28, 2016, 2:22 am

Egypt deports prominent female TV host

Liliane Daoud, who is critical of el-Sissi government, is fired, arrested and put on a plane to Lebanon

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

Egyptian judge Mohammed Shirin Fahmy, second right, reads the verdict against former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, in a makeshift courtroom at the national police academy, in an eastern suburb of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

June 19, 2016, 4:25 am

Egypt sentences two Al-Jazeera employees to death

Rights groups decry inclusion of journalists in espionage case linked to banned Muslim Brotherhood

By Hamza Hendawi

Heba Magdi, an Egyptian actress, cowers in fear as TV pranksters dressed up as Islamic State terrorists stage a mock kidnap, June 2016 Screenshot)

June 10, 2016, 5:02 am

Cruel Islamic State kidnap prank pulled on Egyptian actress

Heba Magdi trembles and breaks down crying as actors try to strap on a fake suicide belt

By Sue Surkes

Yahia Kalash, the head of Egypt's journalists' union, is surrounded by cameramen as he arrives at Cairo south court in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 4, 2016 (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

June 4, 2016, 4:53 pm

Egypt begins trial for head of journalists union amid public outcry

Authorities charge Yahya Qalash, 2 others with spreading false news as rights group condemns ‘draconian’ crackdown on freedom of expression

By AP

In this Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 file photo prominent Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah, left, with his sister Sanaa Abdel-Fattah, speaks to the crowd after attending their father's funeral in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

May 15, 2016, 1:13 am

Egypt sentences 51 to prison over islands protests

April rallies against transfer of Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia were the largest since el-Sissi’s 2014 election

By Hamza Hendawi