Īfter being banned to publish their second edition by the editor in chief of Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt Independent acquired its own license and resumed publishing its weekly edition separate from Al-Masry Al-Youm in 2012. It had evolved from the English edition of Al-Masry Al-Youm, which was previously published as a weekly supplement to the newspaper. On 24 November 2011, the first print edition of Egypt Independent was published.
Egypt Independent is an online newspaper that formerly published a weekly 24-page English-language edition of the Egyptian newspaper, Al-Masry Al-Youm.