The Egyptian TV Anchor Malak Ismail died on Friday evening from the repercussions of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The Supreme Council for Media Regulation mourned Ismail and affirmed that ‘Egypt has lost a great icon and a symbol of Egyptian and Arab media’. Ismail is one of the first generation in Egyptian television, and she left […].
Digital Suez : How the internet flows through Egypt - and why Google could change the Middle East
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There are only a few historically strategic transit points around the Mediterranean Sea: the Strait of Gibraltar, the Bosphorus, and the Suez Canal.
While the Suez Canal has been a jewel in Egypt’s crown since 1869, netting the country some $5.6bn in revenues in 2020, it accounts for just eight percent of world cargo shipments.
Amin s remarks came shortly after President Abdel Fattah El Sisi warned against overpopulation.
The Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR) in Egypt has fined Al-Nahar satellite channel LE 250,000 ($24.48) and threatened to revoke its license for repeated violations by TV host Tamer Amin.
SCMR has also decided to suspend all episodes of the show
Akher al-Nahar presented by Tamer Amin thereby banning him from being published in the media for two months.
In the Feb 18 incident, Amin said: “Egyptians in the countryside and in Upper Egypt give birth to many children and do not educate them, but employ them in workshops; girls are shipped off afterwards to Cairo to work as servants and sometimes in more despicable work. “
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Protesters, including relatives of journalists killed during the revoluton, stage a demonstration in front of the journalists’ syndicate on the 4th anniversary of the revolution, in Cairo, Egypt, 25 January 2015, Ahmed Ismail/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images As Egypt marks the tenth year anniversary of the 25 January revolution, its media landscape continues to be targeted by an aggressive crackdown that has rendered the country one of the world s biggest jailers of journalists.
This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 22 January 2021.
On 25 January, Egypt will mark the 10th anniversary of the revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and led to Mohamed Morsi’s election as president the following year, while Reporters Without Borders (RSF) continues to deplore the crackdown on the media and arrest of more than 100 journalists since Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ousted Morsi in a coup in July 2013.