![]() The French ship Dignité Al Karama was the only ship in the flotilla that managed to approach Gaza. The paper reported that flotilla activists welcomed the paper's initiative to sail from Egypt. The flotilla's ships were stalled in Greece after Greek authorities refused to let them sail. In July, 2011, Al Masry Al Youm publicized its initiative to host the Freedom Flotilla 2 in Egypt and to have the flotilla's ships sail for Gaza from an Egyptian port. The same year the paper sold 250,000 copies. In 2012, the paper's online version was the 26th most-visited website in Egypt based on the Alexa data. Further, it harnessed the energy of young journalists, giving them incentives to produce good work. It has successfully responded to the Egyptian media market as a whole and not a single political party, like many Egyptian opposition papers, and was unafraid to take on hard-hitting topics, like governmental news outlets. As of 2009 it was regarded as the most influential newspaper in Egypt. After 3 three years, it was challenging Al-Ahram for the status of being the national paper of record. The 2005 circulation of the daily was 50,000 copies. It has been said that the paper's launch "helped inaugurate a new opening for independent media in Egypt.". It initially circulated primarily amongst Cairo's intellectual elite, providing objective news coverage in the belief that good news would beat sensationalist reporting found in other Egyptian print media. Until Mohamed Salmawi served as editor-in-chief of the daily when Ali Al Sayed was appointed to the post. Magdi El Galad is one of the former editors-in-chief of the paper. The publisher of the daily is Al-Masry Al-Youm for Journalism and Publication. In 2004, its establishment was finalized, and on 7 June 2004, it published its first edition. Hisham Kassem is also a founder of Al Masry Al Youm. Maggie Nassif participating in a symbolic tree-planting ceremony in the garden of the Commission.The newspaper was founded in late 2002 by Salah Diab, an Egyptian businessman whose grandfather (Tawfik Diab) was one of Egypt's most renowned publishers in the 1930s and 1940s. The anniversary event concluded with Minister Abdul Ghaffar and BFCE Executive Director Dr. The Ambassador and the Minister noted that the two countries would continue to partner with one another, both through the Fulbright Commission and outside it, to expand educational dialogue, scholarly research, and mutual understanding. Egyptian Fulbright alumni include ministers, scientists, economists, doctors, lawyers, professionals, writers, artists, and experts from virtually every field.” Ambassador Beecroft noted: “Education is one of Egypt’s highest national priorities, as it is for the United States, and Fulbright is at the very center of the U.S.-Egypt educational relationship. Khaled Abdul Ghaffar spoke at the event, met with reporters, and congratulated the BFCE staff and its Board of Directors on the 70th anniversary. Ambassador Stephen Beecroft and Minister of Higher Education Dr. Department of State-funded program began worldwide in 1947 under the leadership and initiative of the late Senator William Fulbright, who envisioned the Fulbright program would “bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion to world affairs.” Since 1949, the BFCE has been the busiest Fulbright Commission in the region, awarding study, travel, research and teaching grants to over 6,000 Egyptians and 1,000 Americans. Cairo – Maintaining and expanding educational exchanges between Egypt and the United States was the key topic of discussion at a May 21 gala reception and media event hosted and organized by the Binational Fulbright Commission in Egypt (BFCE) to mark the 70th anniversary of the prestigious Fulbright scholarship program.
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