Yolande Knell, BBC, Sacked belly-dancing teacher sparks Egypt debate over women's rights
"In Egypt, a viral video of a teacher belly-dancing has sparked a national debate about women's rights and the country's socially conservative values."
Category: Egypt internet,
Arab News, Egypt’s mobile wallet transactions jump 160% in 2021, 10 Jan 2022 "Mobile wallet use in Egypt climbed 160 percent in 2021 with a total of 227 million completed transaction."
Daily Dot, Why does the Egyptian government keep jailing this blogger?
"Fattah, who is 39, is currently being detained under suspicion of joining a terrorist group, funding a terrorist group, disseminating false news undermining national security, and using social ...
| Posted on: | Category: Egypt internet,
Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram Outage Impact
The National, WhatsApp down: how parts of the Middle East came to depend on the messaging service, 5 Oct 2021 "When WhatsApp went down on Monday, Dar Al Ifta, one of Egypt’s foremost Islamic advisory ...
"China has been hiring social media influencers since as early as 2020 to spread pro-Chinese propaganda in Egypt and ...
The Arab Weekly, Egypt papyrus makers keep tradition alive with help from Internet "“At first, we were just selling locally to those who came to us, but after Covid, we thought that we could reach more people, and even foreigners, through the internet,” ...
BBC News, Esraa Abdel Fattah: Egyptian activist released from prison
"She was one of the first Egyptian activists to use social media to help organise anti-government demonstrations, earning her the nickname "Facebook Girl". She was later nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize ...
Vice, ‘I’m in Constant Horror’: Student Jailed Over Printouts of Facebook Posts
"Vienna-based student Ahmed Samir Santawy went on hunger strike after he was sentenced to four years in Egypt's strictest prison. His fate now ...
Reuters, Activists assail jail terms for Egyptian influencers "Amnesty International has accused authorities are deploying "repressive new tactics to control cyber space" in the TikTok cases."
DW, Tech-savvy Egypt targets TikTokers and digital dissidents
"Egypt's cybercrime law was written to fight extremists and terror organizations that use the internet to promote their ideas among youth. So why is the government going after ...
Middle East Eye, Egypt: Hadid sisters join calls to free TikTok influencers
"On Wednesday evening, the Hadid sisters shared an informative post about the influencers, following an Egyptian court’s decision to sentence them to prison ...
Bahira Amin, Rest of World, The Facebook page searching for Egypt’s missing children
This is a really important article, with plenty of depth, so check it out: "Choice of platform also matters. While Instagram reports an Egyptian audience size ...
Ihab Ziban, DW, In Egypt, online group Qawem saving hundreds of women from sextortion, 20 June 2021
"Technology has facilitated ...
Middle East Eye, Egypt jails man for harassment spree that sparked #MeToo movement
"An Egyptian court Sunday sentenced a man to eight years in prison for sexually harassing three minors and drug possession, in a case that sparked outrage on social ...
BBC News, Marwa Elselehdar: 'I was blamed for blocking the Suez Canal'
"Rumours about Ms Elselehdar's role on the Ever Given were largely spurred by screenshots of a fake news headline - supposedly published by Arab News - which said she was involved in the Suez incident."
Al Jazeera, Egypt jails alleged paedophile caught on CCTV after online fury
"“Security agencies were able to detain the person in question … to determine the circumstances of the incident that spread on social networking ...
The National, Egyptian court acquits actress accused of contempt of Islam
There's a social media dimension to this case: "An Egyptian court on Sunday acquitted actress Rania Youssef of indecent behaviour in public, corruption, ...
ABC News, In Egypt, a push to get more orphans families, fight stigma - "... elements of Egyptian society have not historically been aware of or enthusiastic about the practice of parents taking orphans into their homes and families, sometimes attaching a stigma to children assumed to have been born out ...
Middle East Eye, Egypt: Animation artist arrested for video commemorating revolution
"Egyptian authorities arrested caricature artist and animated film director Ashraf Hamdi on Sunday evening, after he published a video marking the 10th anniversary ...
It's hard to believe a decade has passed since the tumultuous events of the so-called 'Arab Spring'. Some retrospective materials have (re-)emerged in relation to Egypt. 858 links to a timeline of events from ten years ago in Egypt, part of the 'Friday of Rage' resource.. Martin Chulov of the Guardian ...
BBC World Service, The Fifth Floor, 'Ten years after Tahrir Square'
"It has been 10 years since the Egyptian revolution, which forced President Hosni Mubarak from office. But what has happened since? And are the people who were involved in the revolution satisfied with the ways in which ...
BBC News, Egyptian woman arrested for baking 'indecent' cakes
"Dar al-Ifta wrote on Facebook that products featuring sexual representations were "an assault on the value system and ...
BBC News, Egypt court overturns TikTok stars' jail sentences
"A court in Egypt has overturned the prison sentences of two women who were convicted of posting "indecent videos" on TikTok last year."
BBC News, Egypt singer Mohamed Ramadan faces lawsuit over photo with Israelis
"A prominent Egyptian singer who was photographed posing with two Israeli celebrities at a party in Dubai faces a court hearing in Egypt next month."
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BBC News, Egypt releases satirical blogger Shadi Abu Zeid "Abu Zeid began publishing his satirical program, The Rich Content, on YouTube and Facebook in 2015."
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