British-occupied Egypt hosted the Middle Eastās first genuinely free press
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In that sense, free institutions have, alas, become something of a rarity. The ļ¬rst really free press that we ļ¬nd in the Middle East, where issues could be argued freely and openly and the government could be criticized, was in Britishoccupied Egypt from the 1880s onwards. That country, under Imperialist domĀ ination, nevertheless became a haven of refuge for people from all over the region who had something to say and wanted to be free to say it. That again, it seems to me, is a very important part of the heritage of the British Mandate. This tradition of freedom of expression, freedom of exchange of views, freedom of organization which were well established during the mandatory period and have survived pretty well since then. ā Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 825 (
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- The first genuinely free press in the Middle East existed under British occupation
#corroborates(1.00) ā Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 825