The Impact of Globalization in Egypt

With globalization occurring Egypt is becoming one of the leading financial centers in the Middle East North Africa Region.

In Egypt globalization has played a role in economic restructure and reinterpretation of traditional values. The country has transformed itself economically from a administred economy to a free market economy, through the intervention of IMF and World Bank.

Many other issues such as climate change, HIV/AIDS, energy and economic development are being addressed with great success. Egyptian press has become a big part of these success.

With the success they're also many challenges ahead. It starts with religion and secular division along with upper aged people division with the youth. With the internet present it is changing how young Egyptians express themselves by merging Egyptian Arabic with English.

The State of Egypt's Media

Egyptian media is very influential in Egypt and throughout the Arab World.

This is thanks to a huge audience and the increasing freedom from government control. Freedom of media is guaranteed in their constitution but there were laws that still restrict this right. After the 2005 Egyptian presidential election Ahmed Selim, office director for Information Minister declared and era of "free Egyptian media".

Today Egyptian media gets much more freedom than its near past. Many of its talk shows which are mainly operated on private channels are criticizing the Government.

Egypt has two state-run national TV channels and six regional channels, but many viewers turn to pan-Arab channels for their news.

Egypt is a big force in satelitte TV. It was the first Arab nation to have its own satilitte. Its space channels are very popular in other Arab nations.

Over 5 million Egyptians had the internet in 2007. Bloggers have made themselves known with some of them actually helping with politics.

Now with more freedom, Egyptian media will only begin to progress more and more.