During the International Petroleum Technology Conference “Aegis 2022” last Monday, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi invited CNN anchor John Defterios to moderate a dialogue session at the conference and witness the developments taking place in the country. Defterios is a former CNN broadcaster currently working as a consultant for APCO Worldwide, specialising in public relations. Despite Al-Sisi’s invitation, the reality of Egyptian and foreign reporters tells another story. Imprisonment is the fate of field journalists For years, Egyptian blogger Mohamed Ibrahim, known as “Mohamed Oxygen”, roamed the streets of Egypt carrying his camera to convey people’s pain and dreams, publishing them on his blog and his YouTube channel, which 386,000 people follow. However, Al-Sisi’s regime considers his videos “a threat to … Continue reading Sisi calls on CNN, but national and foreign press are not welcome in Egypt