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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 623

Egyptian media

Illustrative: Egyptian policemen stand guard at Borg el-Arab prison near the Egyptian city of Alexandria. (Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP)
August 20, 2023, 6:08 pm
Egypt detains local journalist after his coverage of mysterious plane interception
Fact-checking platform Matsda2sh says employee Karim Asaad was arrested after he wrote extensively about a plane seized in Zambia earlier this month following a stop in Cairo
By AP
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi speaks at the "G20 Investment Summit - German Business and the CwA Countries 2019" on the sidelines of a Compact with Africa (CwA) in Berlin, Germany on Nov. 19, 2019. (John MacDougall/Pool via AP)
December 27, 2019, 8:04 pm
Egyptian YouTube star held for videos criticizing president
Online comedian Shady Sorour, 24, arrested after returning from US; he is to be tried for allegedly inciting protests to overthrow the government
By AP
Illustrative: Egyptian riot police stand guard in Egypt's capital Cairo, on September 27, 2019. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)
November 29, 2019, 8:17 am
Egyptian journalists, lawyer charged with ‘joining terror group’
All three will remain in detention for 15 days, which can be renewed indefinitely; defense team says they are held in relation to recent arrests of professors, lawyers, journalists
By AFP
People walk past a banner supporting proposed amendments to the Egyptian constitution with a poster of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo, Egypt, April 16, 2019. (AP/Amr Nabil)
November 25, 2019, 8:09 am
Egypt police free journalists held in raid on news outlet
Security forces had arrested 3 Mada Masr editors following article alleging that President Sissi’s son was being transferred to diplomatic posting following internal criticism
By Farid Farid
Egyptian comedian Shaimaa Seif wears blackface in a TV comedy skit widely condemned as racist against Sudanese. (YouTube screenshot)
May 19, 2019, 6:55 am
Egypt blackface sketch spotlights racism in region
Longstanding racist trope in Middle East entertainment is rooted in history of slavery, expert says
By Farid Farid
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
Egypt’s most popular daily sacks chief editor after story critical of elections
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
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