The core issue and the fundamental question is this: are we looking at a minister tasked with media affairs in an institutional, reformative sense? Rather, it asks: are we witnessing the appointment of a media minister in the modern, reformative sense? I have written extensively about media reform within the context of our current public sphere—as it stands—and despite the existing constraints on open discourse. However, if the goal is to appoint a media minister in the reformative sense, the mission is not to field questions, but to rebuild the system itself. If the objective is to reform the media, the task is not to polish the rhetoric, but to overhaul the infrastructure.

Source: Egypt Independent February 16, 2026 09:04 UTC