Media globalization in Egypt

Egypt has more than 500 papers. Egyptian print media is one of the oldest in Arab world. The first newspaper was founded in 1798 on French language during the military expedition of Napoleon Bonaparte.
In 1828. During the cabinet of Muhammad Ally appeared the first local newspaper on Arab language - "Al-Vakaja al-Misryja". It was published by the authorities of Egypt. In 1867 was founded first national newspaper "Vady an-Nile". Since that moment the process of edition of newspapers began to rise increasingly: by the beginning of the XXth century there were about 80 newspapers in Egypt.