CAIRO, Jan. 23 (Aswat Masriya) – An Egyptian lawyer filed a lawsuit before the administrative court on Saturday calling for the lifting of the media gag imposed on the case of Central Auditing Organisation (CAO) head Hesham Geneina. Last month, Geneina told Egyptian media services that the size of governmental …

Leah Caldwell looks at the symbolism of attacks on statues and posters of the Asad family during the recent protests in Syria – attacks which would have been unthinkable before the unrest began.

CAIRO, Jan 26 (Aswat Masriya) - A Cairo court sentenced writer and poet Fatma Naoot to three years in prison and fined her EGP 20,000 (around $2,550) for "contempt of Islam". Naoot responded to the court's decision with, "thanks to the judiciary of kind Egypt," also thanking those who "accuse us …

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)

  تأثير التحولات في ثقافة غرف الأخبار والبيئة التنظيمية الجديدة على أجندة البحث العلمي في حقل دراسات إدارة المؤسسات الصحفية واقتصادياتها: رؤية تحليلية نقدية د. محرز حسين غالي- أستاذ الصحافة المساعد بكلية الإعلام جامعة القاهرة. يدور موضوع هذه الدراسة حول تأثير التحولات في ثقافة غرف الأخبار والبيئة التنظيمية الجديدة على أجندة …

CAIRO, Nov. 1 (Aswat Masriya) - Journalist Ahmed Naje who is on trial for publishing an article containing "obscene sexual content" told Aswat Masriya on Sunday that the decision does not surprise him given the permanent "hostility" that prosecutors display towards the press.  Naje and the editor-in-chief of weekly literary magazine Akhbar …

CAIRO, Nov. 15 (Aswat Masriya) - Egypt's administrative court Sunday set a January 17 verdict date for a law suit demanding that activist Wael Ghonim be stripped of his Egyptian nationality on accusations of being an agent. Ghonim found himself in the limelight in February 2011 after it emerged that he was …

CAIRO, Nov. 2 (Aswat Masriya) – The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) affirmed Monday that reforming the legislative and regulatory structure of the press and the media in Egypt is the only way to avoid cases where breaches of privacy rights conflict with freedom of expression and …

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 …