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Friday, March 17, 2006
2:01AM

The Arab press

By AuthorIssandr El Amrani |
Two good stories on the Arab press came out recently: this IRIN one looks at the regional situation, whereas this one looks at the situation in Egypt specifically. It quotes one analyst as saying the estimated debt of state papers amounts to $1.4 billion. Incidentally, when I was in Morocco I read that the Arab Union of Journalist was going to set up a press freedom watchdog in Rabat. It's being done with the help of the Ministry of Communications there, and the head of the AJU is former Al Ahram supremo is Ibrahim Nafie, so I'm not sure how credible it'll be. Still, I suppose it's a start.
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