Egypt and Animal Welfare
Alice Bennett, Grunge, The Real Reason there are so many Stray Dogs in Egypt, 6 Aug 2023 There is a positive social media edge to this story. “Egypt’s highest...
Online campaign for Gamal Mubarak
Al Jazeera, Egyptians launch online campaign for Gamal Mubarak as president, 11 July 2023 “Campaigners launch Twitter hashtag and Facebook page calling for Gamal, son of former President Hosni...
Hip-hop Egypt
Internet subtext to this interesting long read by Yasmine El Rashidi, The Guardian, How hip-hop fuelled Egypt’s rebellion. “The events of 2011 had been the impetus for millions of...
Egypt: Social Media on Cleopatra programme
Middle East Eye, Netflix: Egyptians launch social media campaign over Cleoatra depiction. “Egyptians are sharing pictures of themselves next to ancient busts amid continuing backlash over a docu-drama that...
Egypt TV Confusion
The New Arab, Easter Mass, Ramadan Taraweeh prayer mix up costs Egypt TV director his job “A local TV channel in Egypt accidentally wrote Easter Mass on the screen...
Yasmin El-Rifae
Ariana Bennett, CSM, Protecting female protesters during Egypt’s Arab Spring revolution, 29 March 2023 “Activist Yasmin El-Rifae helped rescue women from sexual assault during Arab Spring protests in Egypt....
Book: New Media Discourses,
New Media Discourses, Culture and Politics after the Arab Spring Case Studies from Egypt and Beyond Eid Mohamed (Anthology Editor), Aziz Douai (Anthology Editor) Hopefully a cheaper version will...
Egypt meta-kid
Aisling Ní Chúláin & Reuters/Euronews, This 13-year old Egyptian wunderkind is building his own metaverse out of his mother’s old clothes, 28 June 2022 “Using some of his mother’s...