Author

Sabah Hamamou

@Hamamou

Sabah Hamamou is deputy business editor at Al-Ahram newspaper, founder of Masrawyya—Egyptian Media Hub, a start-up website for new media. In 2006 she studied at Northwestern University as part of a fellowship for Arab journalists. She was a <a href="http://www.mjfellows.org/">Knight-Wallace Fellow</a> at the University of Michigan in 2009-2010. She is author of "Diary of a Journalist at Al-Ahram."

Egyptian Journalism: An Oddly Connected Mix of Old and New Media

‘… in this disheartening traditional media landscape, we find encouraging signs of independent media—in the truest sense of the phrase …’