53 Information Network

Information Network

Traditional:

Egypt Independent: This newspaper is one of the few foreign owned publication companies in Egypt that focuses on providing Egyptian news and news that focuses on news involving Egyptian affairs in the MENA region and on the international scene in English without any political ties to the Egyptian government. The website focuses on providing news covering dynamic events in the country, starting in 2009 and becoming a print newspaper in 2011 following political protests and riots. So, while Egypt Independent is mainly structured around a news website but also functions in real print and focuses on covering higher quality coverage on political, social, cultural, and economic issues.

It is accessed at https://egyptindependent.com/ and on twitter @EgyIndependent

I chose this site for its consistent coverage of Egyptian for a spread of topics without any ties to the government or hindrance of censorship, which is a problem with Egyptian media. To stay up to date, I have bookmarked the twitter page and the news site’s article pages.

Asian News Monitor: This online news source is a news stream source found in online journals that focuses on news articles covering Middle Eastern and Asian news stories. The source gathers and stores media coverage from various sources that deal with issues covering economic, cultural and political issues in the area of coverage. The source is in English and is found in several online journal databases.

It can be found in https://www.proquest.com/internationalnews1 and other similar databases

I chose this media because of its consistent uploading of news covering the area, especially Egyptian news that has ramifications for the rest of its region.

New Media:

Al Jazeera Blog (English): The blog site for Al Jazeera news publisher in Arabic and is easily translated into English. The site is a blog site sponsored by Al Jazeera which is an Arab focused news service that provides sourced articles and is updated regularly from many sources and publishes them to avoid censorship by governments.

The site is at ://www.aljazeera.net/blogs/

The Guardian (Online): The news source provides free online and independent news online in English and is based in London. News covers many topics from countries all over the world. I chose this website because of its independence and the coverage of egyptian political news without consequence of state retaliation.

The guardian is found at https://www.theguardian.com/us

Social Media:

Twitter user @moneimpress: I chose this social media source because of the up-to-date coverage of on the ground of egyptian news and political happenings. Abdelmoneim Mahmoud leans towards critical of Egypt’s crackdown on journalism and political protesting. I chose this source to get a personal source of news and opinion about Egypt’s actions from an Egyptian journalist.

Data Sources:

United Nations Human Development Report 2021/2022: This data report covers the human development covering data that indexes the development of human rights, gendered equality and rights, and the overall security of human welfare and action.

I chose this report because of the extensive information on the human well-being of people all over the world and compares states’ ability to provide for their population. It provides a framework for comparing the state of Egypt and its performance ability.

Pdf can be found at: https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2021-22

Audio:

Radio France Internationale (English): This media site provides audio podcast coverage of news over the world in French and in other languages. I chose this option because the site consistently provides free public news over global and regional issues in audio format and is regularly updated online.

The website address is at: https://www.rfi.fr/en/

I found these sources by going through the international library sources found on the class carmen page. For most of the sources, I chose to use the international newsroom source that is provided by the university library proquest database. I then chose news and online publications that covered any news involving locations in Egypt and sourced from Egypt. This provided articles and then chose from sources that provided consistent information on topics dealing with Egyptian news not sponsored by the state. The other source was the United Nation human development report and that was found from a different library link from the university library.