Blog Plagiarism hits Egyptian Bloggers · Global Voices
Marwa Rakha

Is there such a thing as blog plagiarism? Egyptian bloggers argue both sides of the fence on Facebook and on their blogs after a newspaper started quoting bloggers – without their permission.
Bella Shereef created a group attacking El Shorouk Newspaper for quoting bloggers without their permission and for editing the excerpts they quote saying:
The group currently has no admin and the newspaper created a survey and asked the readers to share their opinion of the blog pages in the paper.
Bella wrote on the discussion board:
Bent Al Kamar wrote on her blog:
She also posted links to other disapproving bloggers here, and here.
On the other hand, several bloggers did not find anything wrong or incriminating with El Shorouk Newspaper's practices.
Mohamed Hamdy wrote:
Shaimaa El Gammal responded by sharing a piece of news about The Printed Blog in the US:
Last but not least, Lasto Adri of Global Voices wrote: