Lina Attalah
Guest Professors Forensic Architecture (2024-25)
Lina Attalah is co-founder and publisher of Mada Masr, an online news organization at the forefront of investigative journalism in Egypt. She works with a team of reporters who expose sensitive stories about power in the midst a harsh crackdown on independent voices. Through her work and that of her colleagues’, Mada Masr has remained one of the few sources of independent news as many Egyptian news organizations have succumbed to government harassment and controls.
In response to their reports, Attalah and her colleagues have been routinely harassed by security forces and operate under constant threat of arrest. Attalah’s most recent arrest came on May 18, 2020, when she was picked up outside Tora Prison in Cairo while interviewing the mother of Alaa Abdel Fattah, a British-Egyptian activist who has been behind bars for 10 years.
https://www.madamasr.com/en/
In response to their reports, Attalah and her colleagues have been routinely harassed by security forces and operate under constant threat of arrest. Attalah’s most recent arrest came on May 18, 2020, when she was picked up outside Tora Prison in Cairo while interviewing the mother of Alaa Abdel Fattah, a British-Egyptian activist who has been behind bars for 10 years.
https://www.madamasr.com/en/