CAIRO, Jan 22 (Aswat Masriya) – A photo of activist Shaimaa al-Sabbagh held by her colleague on a sidewalk near Talaat Harb Square after being shot by security forces on Jan. 24, 2015 won the first place in the Shawkan Photo Awards ceremony. The ceremony, held at the Press Syndicate …

BBC Monitoring The European Parliament (EP) convened as scheduled on 17 January and passed a resolution criticizing the human rights situation in Egypt. From the start, Cairo's reaction was sharp, including the cancellation of political talks with senior EU officials and criticism of "the situation of minorities in Europe". Egyptian …

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 …