Lina Attalah (Arabic: لينا عطاالله) is an Egyptian media figure and journalist.

She has published articles in Al-Masry Al-Youm, Cairo Times, The Daily Star[6] and the Christian Science Monitor and for the Thomson Reuters news agency.

[7] In November 2019, Attalah was briefly detained by Egyptian security services after Mada Masr, of which she is chief editor, published an article[8] about plans for president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's son Mahmoud el-Sisi to be transferred from the General Intelligence Directorate (GIS), one of the three Egyptian intelligence services,[9] to the Military Intelligence agency and assigned to a diplomatic position in Moscow in 2020 in response to Mahmoud's media visibility having a negative impact on president el-Sisi's image.

[11][10] On 18 May 2020, in what was described as a "growing crackdown on freedom of expression linked to Covid-19," Attalah was arrested outside Tora prison in Cairo while interviewing the sister of detained journalist Alaa Abd El-Fattah.

[14] Attalah is a frequent public speaker and has been invited to address UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day, Storyful in Australia, the Arab Media Forum, and a host of other events.