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In an attempt to confront the repeated attacks on the freedom of the media the “Higher Committee for Opposing the ‘Brotherhoodization’ of the press and media, is to meet [Reviewer: no date mentioned] to discuss attempts to close down satellite TV channels and newspapers because of their opposition...
  The “an appeal to all patriots, freedom of the press is in danger” conference held at the Syndicate of Journalists, has launched a fierce attack on the Shūrá Council’s committee for the selection of editors-in-chief of national newspapers.  
Jamāl Fahmī, a member of the National Council for Human Rights, said that the Egyptian constitution contains texts and articles recognizing freedom of belief, thought and expression. "But they remained merely texts."
Writer Jamal Fahmī, former Undersecretary of the Press Syndicate, said that the current syndicate law has to be developed. Fahmī advocates this development in syndicate law because it does not match the current circumstances, which call for amending the regulations of the membership of the...
Public and military figures, and Muslim clerics attended the Easter celebrations at Qasr Al-Dubārah Evangelical Church. The most prominent participants at the event included 'Amr Mūsá, leader of the Egyptian Conference Party, Col. Ahmad 'Ali, official spokesman of the Armed Forces and Shaykh Mazhar...
The editors-in-chief of various newspapers held a conference to “confront Al-fitnah al-tā’ifīyah” and oppose issues threatening national security on Sunday at the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate. They called for a unified law for the building of all places of worship and the removal of the “religion...
The article analyses the rocky relations between Egypt and Israel since the 1979 peace treaty. It reflects on the prospects for normalisation between the two states and states that as long as the Egyptian people are strongly sympathetic with the Palestinians then the likelihood of improved...
The Journalists’ Syndicate is working hard to try and stop the editor in chief of al-Dustūr newspaper from going to jail.
The grand Imām of the Azhar’s declarations about the Islamic punishment imposed on people who spread rumors that hurt others has increased tension in press milieus. Journalists reacted fiercely to the grand Iimām’s declarations and called for his resignation.
The Egyptian press is still focusing on the case of the four editors-in-chief who were sentenced to jail for spreading rumors and false information about President Mubārak’s health condition. While some observers denounce the jail penalty, others believe that journalists who do not adhere to the...

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