Egypt: Party tries to rebuild paper by hiring competitor's editor
Posted by Maddie Hanna on July 6, 2006 at 3:14 PM
In order to win back readers from Al-Misri Al-Yawm, Egypt’s liberal Al-Wafd party recently selected the competing paper’s former editor-in-chief, Anwar al-Huwwari, to head the party's publication.
Al-Huwwari will replace outgoing Al-Wafd editor-in-chief Abbas al-Tarabili, BBC Monitoring reported. The newspaper will likely be published in a new form with an increased number of pages.
Al-Wafd chairman Mahmud Abazah’s decision, the BBC reports, is an attempt to “pull the carpet from beneath the newspaper Al-Misri al-Yawm” and rebuild the publication’s popularity, which has waned in recent years.
Source: BBC (originally from Egypt’s Al-Misriyun)
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