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EGYPT / Applications open for the Mediterranean Journalist Awards

The Anna Lindh Foundation for dialogue between cultures is inviting submissions for the 10th Mediterranean Journalist Awards. Each year the Mediterranean Journalist Awards reward the work of journalists who “tackle inter-cultural problems between and within Euro-Mediterranean societies”. This competition is open to all journalists from the written press, television, radio and on-line media, from one …

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EGYPT / The Competition Authority judges beIN Sports “illegal”

The Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) has dealt a blow to beIN Sports, the Qatari bouquet of sports channels, by annulling its contract with the Egyptian operator Cable Network Egypt. According to the ECA’s decision, made public on July 12th, beIN Sports may have “violated Article 8 of the Law on the Protection of Competition by …

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EGYPT / Candidate call for the 2017 MAHD Film Lab

The Egyptian production company Felucca Films and the Swedish Institute in Alexandria are launching the second MAHD Film Lab, a training and assistance programme for young scriptwriters and directors. The MAHD Film Lab is open to all scriptwriters and directors, Arab or European, currently working on a project for a first or second feature-length drama. …

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EGYPT FRANCE / The CMCA collaborates on Bokra Sawa’s new project

The Bokra Sawa association is offering a multimedia workshop for young people from Marseilles and its surrounding areas. The workshop will build on the use of new media and digital tools to document the role of women in the public space and thus train participants in street journalism. The project began in January in Alexandria …

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EGYPT / Call for films for the 6th Luxor African Film Festival

Submissions may now be sent in for the 6th festival of African film, held in Luxor from March 16th to 22nd 2017. Any African film by an African film-maker and produced in 2016, regardless of its length, can compete. There are three sections: feature films, feature-length documentaries and short films. There is also an international …

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EGYPT / An ONTV journalist thrown out of the country

Late in the afternoon of June 27th Liliane Daoud, a Lebanese-British journalist and presenter on the Egyptian private channel ONTV, was given just a few hours to leave Egypt. According to her lawyer the police went to her home and took her straight to the airport, without giving her time to pack or say goodbye …

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EGYPT / The government hopes TV series will fight drug-taking

On May 12th the Egyptian Minister of Social Solidarity, Ghada Wali, announced that the government will set up a grant of EGP 1 million (about €100,000) to produce a television series during Ramadan to help fight drug abuse in the country. The grant will be funded jointly by the Ministries of Social Solidarity and Youth …

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