Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Le Monde Sans Egypte*

We have an Arabic edition from Le Monde Diplomatique which is published as a monthly supplement of Al Akhbar newspaper and I noticed that the supplement rarely includes any articles about Egypt from near or far. Of course I should have known better , it turned out that Al Akhbar can remove all the articles and topics concerning Egypt they see inappropriate according to an agreement with the French Publisher !!  Of “inappropriate” means all the articles criticizing the current political , economic and social situations in Egypt.

This is according to the Chief in editor of the Le Monde Diplomatique’s Arabic edition who revealed to Al Masry Al Youm this dirty little secret !!

Here in French a list of articles and reports published in original Le Monde Diplomatique and I do not see why they would be censored and removed !!

With my all respect to the French publishing house but if I were in their shoes I would say big No. For God sake this is a newspaper dealing with geopolitics not a Cosmopolitan magazine so it would be censored to fit a conservative society  !!

*“Le Monde sans Egypte means the world without Egypt”

2 comments:

  1. Dear Sirs
    The partners of Le Monde diplomatique editions arabes in each country have the right to publish or not any article, according to the country laws and to their policy. However, when we know that such articles are not published in one or many countries we make them freely available on our web site...
    All the articles mentioned in your search on the French edition above are available in arabic on our web site, as well as exclusive articles of the arabic edition... check it, make a misr search on www.mondiploar.com
    Samir AITA
    Editor in Chief

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  2. @Samir Aita , thank you Mr.Aita for clarification

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