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The minimum wage for journalists in Egypt is EGP 1,200 ($68) per month, which a large number of journalists do not receive at present. (Shutterstock)

February 28th, 2018 - 11:37 GMT

With $51 Salaries: How Do Journalists in Egypt Make Ends Meet?

There are increasing challenges threatening the future of journalism in Egypt, with the financial situation coming at the top.

Egyptian journalists and photographers protest in front of their syndicate in Cairo on 30 September 2014 demanding the release of their detained colleagues. (AFP/File)

September 4th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Egyptian courts renew detention of four journalists for 15 days

Journalists protest the crackdown on press freedom in Egypt. (AFP/File)

August 29th, 2016 - 11:00 GMT

Egypt court orders release of journalist Amr Badr

The head of the Egyptian journalists union, Yahiya Kallash demonstrates with journalists outside the Journalist Syndicate headquarters in Cairo on May 4, 2016. (AFP/Mohamed el-Shahed)

June 26th, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

Egyptian Journalist Syndicate trial adjourned for the third time

Egypt's Press Syndicate chief detained for 'harbouring journalists'. (AFP/File)

May 31st, 2016 - 06:30 GMT

Amnesty International condemns the arrest of Press Syndicate head in Egypt

Journalists hold a banner reading in Arabic: "I am a journalist not a terrorist". (AFP/File)

May 30th, 2016 - 11:00 GMT

Head of Egyptian Press Syndicate under investigation; Refuses bail

Egyptians protest crackdown on journalistic freedom. (AFP/File)

May 15th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Egypt renews detention for two journalists

A protest in Egypt over the arrest and detainment of journalists. (AFP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)

May 3rd, 2016 - 11:03 GMT

Egypt government sends journalist strategy memo to... journalists: report

Ahram's editorial hit out at the interior ministry's "several mistakes in this past period, concluding with its unfortunate behavior against the right[s] of journalists and media workers." (Twitter)

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May 3rd, 2016 - 11:05 GMT

Egypt's Al Ahram newspaper blasts Interior Ministry in 'unprecedented' editorial

Thousands of activists, as well as several journalists, have been detained since former army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi overthrew his Islamist predecessor Mohamed Morsi in 2013. (AFP/Mohamed El-Shahed)

May 3rd, 2016 - 05:29 GMT

Egypt: Prosecutors order 15 day detention of journalists

Protests outside the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate in 2015. (AFP/File)

May 2nd, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Egyptian police raid Journalists Syndicate, arrest two

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October 19th, 2015 - 06:57 GMT

Egyptian youth mock parliamentary elections with hashtag

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