CAIRO, Nov. 8 (Aswat Masriya) - Security forces arrested Salah Diab, founder of one of Egypt's biggest private newspapers Al-Masry Al-Youm, and his son in the early hours of Sunday morning, a security source told state run news agency MENA.  Mubarak-era businessmen Diab is currently implicated in an investigation where he …

CAIRO, Nov.19 (Aswat Masriya) – The South Giza prosecution referred the founder of Al-Masry al-Youm newspaper and Chairman of PICO Salah Diab to criminal court Thursday on charges of illegal possession of weapons. The Mubarak-era businessman and his son Tawfik were arrested in a dawn raid on their home Sunday and were …

Novelist and writer Hassan Daoud was awarded Saturday the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel “La Tariq ila al-janna,” (No Road to Paradise). The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature was established by the American University in Cairo Press in 1996. It was created to support contemporary Arabic literature. (Aswat Masriya)

CAIRO, Nov. 9 (Aswat Masriya) – On Monday military prosecution detained investigative journalist Hossam Bahgat for four days pending investigation on charges of “publishing false news that harms national interests and disseminating information that disturbs public peace,” according to the Association for Freedom of Thoughts and Expression (AFTE). Bahgat was …