His visionary belief creates a modern yet very anciently rooted designs and exploitations that serve as pathways between the past and the future within the present. The fight against all odds starting with changing the architectural perspective and culture in the Egyptian market has been a never ending battle. But being the resilient and strong minded person that he is, Ashraf Abdel Mohsen is always determined to reach his goals and never surrendering to the mainstream mindsets on a daily basis not just through his architecture & art but all the way through life.
Starting the journey in 1990 when Cube was formed, the road to reaching the stars always had and still has its ups and downs.
This may sound crazy and unreasonable to many but if you dig deeper into the meaning behind it you’ll realize that it makes perfect sense and it already happens with every new trend and each new product in our everyday life. Local media on Thursday quoted Deyab as saying that he "has not been subjected to any pressure" from authorities to backtrack on his paper's position.The man who always follows the concept of bringing back the future. "El-Masry El-Youm holding onto its independence and professionalism is required today more than any time before." The paper’s website also ran camera negative photos of the interior minister, as did numerous outlets in the country, in a sign of protest.ĭeyab concluded his column by vowing not to repeat the paper's “mistake.” The paper's online edition has, until today, run a slogan at the website's header reading "No to gag order…No to restricting Journalism," in accordance with one of the decisions by the syndicate referring to a prosecutorial gag order into publishing news about the journalists’ arrest.Ī logo bearing the same slogan had been emblazoned on its print edition for several days following the meeting, but has since been removed. "The paper intertwined with the syndicate, adopting its stances entirely without criticism and based its editorial stances on one side." The two journalists are accused of “publishing false news” and “inciting to overthrow the regime.”Ī general meeting held days later by the union and attended by over 2,000 journalists resulted in a list of demands at the head of which was the dismissal of the interior minister.Įl-Masry El-Youm’s chief editor, Mohamed El-Sayed Saleh, said his paper would abide by the union's demands and wrote an editorial last week addressing President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in which he denounced the raid and attacks on journalists.ĭeyab, however, said the paper has "taken political positions not at the core of its work or professionalism" by demanding the dismissal of the interior minister and an official apology from the presidency. "I believe El-Masry El-Youm has deviated from its principles of independence and professionalism in following up on the recent crisis between the press syndicate and the interior ministry," read the front-page editorial in Thursday's print edition.Įarlier this month, police raided the syndicate in downtown Cairo and arrested two journalists, a move that sparked outrage among media outlets. In a first since the daily's founding over 12 years ago, Salah Deyab wrote an editorial where he criticised the newspaper's “political coverage” of the ongoing row between journalists and police. The owner of Egypt's independent El-Masry El-Youm daily criticised his own paper's take on the recent crisis between journalists and the interior ministry that was triggered by a police raid on their union earlier this month.
VIDEO: 'Break the gag order,' Egyptian journalists chant at general assembly meeting at union HQ
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