Khaberni - In developments following the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Egyptian State Information Service stated that hundreds of millions followed the event via a live broadcast, which was transmitted by thousands of channels and digital broadcasting platforms, in one of the widest media coverage of any cultural event in recent decades.
The head of the service, journalist Diaa Rashwan, said in a statement today, Monday, that media monitoring revealed the publication of 705 reports and articles in 215 major media outlets around the world, including "The Washington Post," "BBC," "France 24," "CNN," "DW," "Forbes," "National Geographic," among others, where 98% of the coverages were positive, depicting the event as an unprecedented civilizational achievement.
Followed by more than a billion people
Rashwan added that the monitoring and tracking of television channels and digital broadcasting applications on social media, conducted by the service around the clock over the past two days, revealed that the vast majority of television channels and digital broadcasting platforms audio-visually broadcasted long periods of the Grand Egyptian Museum opening ceremony, including major global news and political channels, as well as dozens of international news agencies in all languages.
Rashwan also pointed out that some major television stations broadcasted the entire ceremony with translations into foreign languages, adding that the positive global media coverage of the Grand Egyptian Museum opening over several days before, during, and after the ceremony, was followed by more than a billion people from populations around the world from all peoples, cultures, and languages, amounting to a priceless national gain that will have a significant impact in shaping the international perception of Egypt and boosting tourism to the country.
Rashwan also considered this global momentum and interest in this significant event as reflecting a unique state of peace, stability, and security in Egypt within a regional and global context.
Forming the global cultural scene
Rashwan added that the international media regarded the museum as a new message affirming Egypt’s pivotal role on the international stage, and that Egypt is proving today that it is not only the cradle of civilizations but also a fundamental pillar in forming the global cultural scene.
The international media also considered the Grand Egyptian Museum as an "architectural and cultural icon" that combines the essence of the past and the spirit of the future, and that the museum not only carries touristic or archaeological dimensions but also a civilizational and humanitarian symbolism, as it displayed for the first time the complete treasure of the Pharaoh "Tutankhamun," consisting of more than five thousand artifacts discovered inside his legendary tomb, in a display that astonished the world.
European media in the first place
The American media published 63 pieces amounting to 9%, while the European media published 254 pieces amounting to 36%, the media in neighboring countries published 44 pieces amounting to 6%, and 132 pieces were published by the Asian media, particularly Japanese media as the main foreign contributor to the funding of the Grand Egyptian Museum construction project, accounting for 19%.
Meanwhile, the African media published 18 pieces, most of which were relayed from European agencies, accounting for 3%, while the Arab media, especially Saudi and Emirati, published 194 pieces, accounting for about 28% of the total media pieces published internationally about the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum during that period.
