Lina Attalah: Keynote speaker at Masahat 2024

We are beyond excited to announce that Lina Attalah is the first keynote speaker at Masahat Festival 2024 . Lina is publisher and founding editor of Mada Masr, a Cairo-based news website at the forefront of investigative journalism in Egypt. She leads a team of fearless reporters who expose high-level corruption and misconduct in the midst of the country’s harsh crackdown on independent voices.

Attalah is the recipient of the 2020 Knight International Journalism Award presented by the International Center for Journalists to honor outstanding journalism that has an impact.

She has been the driving force behind Mada Masr since it launched in 2013. In 2017, she was recognized as a “New Generation Leader” by Time magazine, which called her the “Muckraker of the Arab World.”

Lina has been a journalist working in the region for the past two decades. She edits, sometimes writes and likes to speak with artists.

We have been following Lina’s work for yeas and we are honored to have her give a keynote on Saturday 21 September at Masahat festival 2024. Lina will also participate in other workshops and talks during the festival.