Tag: state propaganda

Big Brother Headlines

Posted on By 3arabawy

Whether it’s owned by the state, or “independent” businessmen, Egypt’s front page headlines are all coined identically by the army’s Department of Morale Affairs.

Identical Headlines

‘War on infidels’

Posted on By 3arabawy

It was a pile of trash already, but it’s even getting worse since Yasser Rizk became the CEO of Al-Akbar, Egypt’s second largest state-owned newspaper.

Al-Akhbar Front Page 28 March 2015

Just to give you a sample, above is Al-Akhbar’s front page on 28 March, breaking the news about the Egyptian army’s heroic efforts to “abort a terror strike” on a security check point in Sinai’s Sheikh Zuweid’s area, as the “Apaches bomb a Houthi cell in Rafah that includes Palestinians and Iranians!”

Al-Akhbar Front Page 3 April 2015

And today’s front page runs a headline announcing the “martyrdom of 15 [Egyptian army] fighters and the liquidation of 27 infidels!”