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MIRETTE MABROUK: I'm going to try and keep this
quite short in case people want to ask questions, but
what we're really looking at is this, has the changing
media landscape in Egypt affected national politics,
and if so, how do we move forward if we're interested
in democratic reform because that's really what we're
looking at.
Back in 1952 with the beginning of the coup
d'état, three officers turned up at the television and
radio broadcast building and they're still there. The
media is incredibly important when you're addressing a country when you're telling people what to think, how
to live, what questions they ask, it's enormously
important. In 1960 the media in Egypt were completely
nationalized because they had to belong to what later
became the Arab Socialist Union, and it wasn't until
1970 after President Gamal Abdel Nasser died that
President Anwar Sadat allowed A, the reintroduction of
political parties other than the ruling party of
opposition parties, and B, allowed them to print
newspapers, and that was in 1970.
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