Update: Al-Arabiya has continued to ignore our emails. Its ‘addendum’ did not correct the plagiarism and instead appeared to justify their copying and pasting. Egyptian Streets has emailed Al-Arabiya and continues to wait for any response Al-Arabiya News’ ubiquitous ‘staff writer’ has continued to unabashedly plagiarize content from Egyptian Streets (ES), despite ES’ attempts to inform Al-Arabiya’s editorial staff of such violation of basic journalistic ethics. On August 6, Egyptian Streets published an article, written by its Chief-Editor Mohamed Khairat, revealing the story behind the nine-year-old boy who accompanied President Sisi on the Presidential Yacht during the opening of the New Suez Canal. Several hours later, Al-Arabiya published the same story, copying and pasting the majority of the content from Egyptian Streets’ article. In fact, apart from the introduction and the removal of all references to 57357 Children’s Cancer Hospital in Egypt, Al-Arabiya’s article used word-for-word the phrases used by Egyptian Streets. Shocked that such a highly esteemed media organization would allow plagiarism, Egyptian Streets emailed Al-Arabiya News’ PR, Chief-Editor and all other publicly available email addresses to express its concern. In the email, ES asked Al-Arabiya to either properly…
