Pakistan’s struggle with censorship and control on expression is an ongoing story. Over the years, journalists and editors across the country found ways of responding to threats by accepting, subver...
Declan Walsh
Declan Walsh is the Cairo bureau chief for The New York Times.
Educated in Dublin, Walsh started his career at The Sunday Business Post in 1998. A year later he won an Irish national media award for Social and Campaigning Journalism and moved to Kenya to work as a freelance journalist. Based in Nairobi, Walsh travelled widely across sub-Saharan Africa to report for The Independent of London and The Irish Times. In 2004 he joined The Guardian as the paper's correspondent for Afghanistan and Pakistan and moved to Islamabad, Pakistan. In January 2012 he joined The New York Times as its Pakistan bureau chief.
He reported in his column Abroad in America on the 2016 American presidential campaign in much the same way he would cover an event overseas.
He is the author of the August 2017 long-read article entitled Why was an Italian graduate student tortured and murdered in Egypt? on the case of Giulio Regeni’s disappearance in Cairo. More recently he has reported extensively on the war in Yemen and the revolution in Sudan.
Egypt: how to defend press freedom under political repression. #ijf20talk by Lina Attalah
#ijf20talk by Lina Attalah. Moderated by Declan Walsh.
The panel will consider whether mainstream news reporting promotes war, and if so why. According to Bette Dam the media should hit pause, stop using biased sources, and urgently reconsider the way the...
Egypt, where President Al-Sisi has recently been re-elected with 97 percent of the votes, is a country where human rights violations - even forced disappearances, torture, executions - are multiplying...
The 2011 Tahrir Square protests in Egypt, in addition to ushering in hopes of democracy also opened a window of opportunity in the search for media independence after decades of dictatorship. But the...
In an era of alternative facts, the truth about Islam has fallen by the wayside. With Islam one of the most controversial and misunderstood issues of our time, the task of telling the truth from the ...
