He points out that pursuing censorship does little for the ruling SCAF than make it appear old-fashioned and fearful. Springborg discussed the incident himself and shared his comments from the original piece-coup and all- on the Web site of Foreign Policy. The details have now been reported inside of Egypt and abroad, on the Web site of Al-Masry Al-Youm (where the entire issue can be downloaded, though in its edited form) and in the British newspaper The Independent. Naval Postgraduate School, and his piece, an opinion column, was called “Is Field Marshal Tantawi reading the public’s pulse correctly?” The issue seemed not to be with the total content of the piece, but, Attalah said, the last two paragraphs and specifically the use of the word “coup.” Attalah and Springborg agreed to revise the piece, omitting that word. The author was Robert Springborg, a professor at the U.S.

( Al-Ahram wins in the first category.) Buoyed by the success of the first edition, the staff started working on a second called “First there was a revolution…” It included a piece on whether or not high voter turnout was helping to redeem the image of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces, an article on secularism at the polls, and a review of a new restaurant serving Swedish meatballs near Tahrir Square.īut on the eve of publication, the editor-in-chief of Al-Masry Al-Youm, Magdy Galad (who also has his own television show and, some say, political ambitions and ties to the military), voiced concern over an opinion piece.

With a readership of at least two hundred thousand, the Arabic edition is the second-most popular newspaper, and the most popular independent newspaper, in Egypt. While they waited for a license, they decided to distribute the Egypt Independent as an insert in the Arabic edition of Al-Masry Al-Youm.

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