Reda Edward, the new chairman of popular independent daily Al-Dostour, sacked 11 reporters this week for exceeding the number of days off allowed under the terms of Egypt's labor law.
Edward only fired upper-management reporters, however, saying (...)
Al-Sayed al-Badawy, leader of the opposition Wafd Party, has accepted a recommendation by the party's executive board to allow Ibrahim Eissa, former chief editor of independent daily Al-Dostour, to write for the party's daily newspaper, (...)
Al-Dostour reporters on Tuesday staged an open sit-in at the Journalists Syndicate headquarters after the paper's new board manager, Reda Edward, canceled a meeting with the syndicate's head, Makram Mohamed Ahmed, for the second day in a row.
Those (...)
President of the Wafd opposition party Al-Sayed al-Badawi on Sunday sold all his shares in independent daily Al-Dostour to Reda Edward, executive chairman of the newspaper's board of directors.
“I just wanted my money back,” said al-Badawi. “And (...)
The crisis involving independent daily Al-Dostour escalated on Thursday with nearly 150 journalists and opposition figures staging a demonstration in front of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate's downtown headquarters to protest the sacking earlier (...)