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Authors & Reporters
Meet the reporters and contributors behind published EgyptPulse.News coverage across Egypt.
Amira Tawfik
Transport & Infrastructure Reporter
Covers how Egypt moves — metro and rail expansion, the informal microbus network that carries most journeys in Greater Cairo, roads, ports and aviation. The beat treats commuting time as an economic indicator: a labour market only functions if workers can physically reach employers, so a transport project is judged on door-to-door journey time and on how many jobs a person without a car can reach, not on kilometres of track opened.
Dina Mansour
Health & Society Reporter
Writes about health and society — hospitals and public health, the cost of care, education, and the everyday questions readers put to a newsroom about services they depend on. The beat is anchored in what a policy means for a family: waiting times, fees, what is covered and what is not. Health claims are sourced to a medical authority or a published study, never to a press release, and the story says plainly when the evidence is thin.
Hana Abdelaziz
Property & Development Reporter
Covers real estate and urban development — housing supply and prices across Greater Cairo, Alexandria and the coast, the New Administrative Capital, developer finance, and the regulation that governs all of it. The beat is interested in occupancy rather than announcements: a project is assessed on units actually lived in, schools open and shops trading, because those are what turn built environment into a place. Marketing material is treated as marketing material.
Karim Mostafa
Technology Reporter
Covers technology in Egypt and the region — the startup scene, telecoms and connectivity, fintech, artificial intelligence, and the question of how any of it changes what people actually do. The beat is sceptical of capability claims and interested in deployments: what a system does in month four, not what it does in a demo. Vendor figures are reported as vendor figures. Where a technology has a labour consequence, the story names it, because the alternative is writing about automation as though nobody works in the industry being automated.
Layla Farouk
Gulf Affairs Reporter
Covers the GCC for readers in Egypt — the Gulf economies, the companies and sovereign funds that move regional capital, and the energy, investment and employment decisions that reach Egyptian households through remittances and jobs. The beat exists because what happens in Riyadh, Dubai and Doha is domestic news for the millions of Egyptian families with someone working there. Company reporting sticks to what a firm actually publishes and attributes it plainly; no revenue, headcount or contract value is estimated, because private Gulf groups disclose selectively and a confident guess is worse than an admitted gap.
Mariam El-Sayed
Culture & Heritage Reporter
Writes about culture and heritage — museums and archaeology, antiquities and conservation, cinema, music and literature, and the institutions that decide what of Egypt's past survives into its future. The beat treats heritage as a live subject with budgets, staffing and policy behind it rather than a settled inheritance. Conservation stories follow the money and the method, and reporting on a discovery waits for the institution to confirm it rather than amplifying the first announcement.
Nour Abdelrahman
Business & Economy Reporter
Reports on the Egyptian economy — the pound, inflation and Central Bank policy, banking and capital markets, trade through the Suez Canal, and the corporate decisions that move the country. The beat treats a macro number as the beginning of a story rather than the end of one: what a growth figure or a rate decision means for a household in practice, and who carries the cost of a given trade-off. Figures are always attributed to the body that published them, forecasts are labelled as forecasts, and fiscal-year data is never quietly compared against calendar-year data.
Omar El-Shazly
National News Reporter
Covers national news across Egypt — government decisions, public policy, the institutions that run the country, and the stories shaping daily life from Cairo out to the governorates. The beat spans announcements from ministries and parliament through to how a policy actually lands in Minya or Port Said. Reporting starts from the primary document wherever one exists: the decree, the budget line, the official statement. Where a claim cannot be sourced, it is not published, and where two official figures disagree, the story says so rather than choosing the tidier number.
Salma Ibrahim
Travel & Tourism Reporter
Reports on travel and tourism — the Red Sea and Sinai resorts, Nile cruising, Luxor and Aswan, hotel development, and the visitor economy Egypt depends on for foreign currency. The beat covers tourism as an industry with capacity constraints and seasonal economics, not as a brochure: arrivals are read alongside length of stay and revenue per visitor, because a record year measured only in headcount can still be a weak one.
Sherif El-Din
Energy & Environment Reporter
Reports on energy and the environment — solar and wind capacity, the electricity grid, natural gas and its role in both the domestic supply and the export accounts, water scarcity and climate adaptation. The beat measures the transition by electricity actually consumed from renewable generation across a full year, including still evenings, rather than by installed capacity, because the second number is easy to announce and the first is what changes a bill.
Tarek Ghanem
Entertainment Reporter
Covers entertainment — Egyptian film and television, music, festivals and streaming, and the productions and performers audiences across the region are actually watching. The beat follows the industry as a business as much as a culture: what gets commissioned, what it costs, who distributes it and why a release lands when it does. Coverage of individuals stays with their work, and nothing about a person's private life is reported because it circulated.
Yasmine Shaker
Food & Agriculture Reporter
Writes about food from the field to the table — wheat imports and food security, farming and irrigation, prices and subsidy policy, and Egypt's restaurant and dining scene. The beat holds both ends of the subject together, because the cost of bread and the water it takes to grow are the same story. Agriculture reporting starts from the water arithmetic, since water rather than land is the constraint that disqualifies most of the intuitive answers.
Youssef Farag
Sport Reporter
Covers Egyptian sport — the Premier League, the national team, African and continental competition, and the athletes carrying Egypt's colours abroad. The beat takes in the administration of sport as well as the results: club finances, federation decisions, facilities and youth development, on the basis that most of what determines a season happens before kick-off.