Media officials and journalism professors demanded the immediate tackling of violence associated with today’s Egyptian media at the 22nd annual International Journalism Conference that took place on Monday at Cairo University. The conference was organized by Gaber Nassar, president of Cairo University, Gihan Yousry, head of the university’s Mass Communication department, and Barakat AbdelAziz, deputy head of post-graduate studies at the university. Nagwa El Fawad, head of the National Research Council, stressed the importance of media playing a crucial role in dealing with the daily acts of violence, analyzing reasons for violence that emerges in media today, and encouraging effective solutions to protect audiences. “We need to discipline today’s media by implementing constitutional laws of 2014, hence controlling the culture of violence that we witness in daily life,” El Fawad said. Moataz El Sayed Abduallah, head of Cairo University’s Literature department and a professional psychiatrist delved into the reasons behind acts of violence in today’s Egyptian community. “Our Egyptian society is no longer forgiving and violence has a specific cycle that starts with discrimination, leading to radicalism, then hatred and later all three aspects are translated in acts of violence…
Media Officials Call for ‘Discipline’ in Egypt’s Media at Annual Journalism Conference
May 4, 2016
