A 60 Minutes reporter almost raped to death while on assignment in Egypt has signed a new TV deal, four years after her horrific attack.

American journalist Lara Logan has signed a new contract with CBS News following a tough battle with her health related to the assault. She has signed a new two-year deal with the network, the New York Post reports.

Logan has had a difficult year after being repeatedly hospitalised with complications from her injuries stemming from a brutal sexual assault in Egypt in 2011.

Logan was CBS’ chief foreign correspondent when she was forcefully separated from her producer and bodyguard as she reported on the Arab Spring in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, surrounded by crowds celebrating the toppling of then-President Hosni Mubarak.

Encircled by a group of up to 300 men, she was stripped, beaten and sexually assaulted.

“There was no doubt in my mind that I was in the process of dying ... I thought not only am I going to die, but it’s going to be just a torturous death that’s going to go on forever,” she later said in an interview.

As her cameraman was changing a battery, Egyptian members of her film crew heard people in the crowd talking about wanting to take Ms Logan’s pants off.

“Our local people with us said, ‘We’ve gotta get out of here’,” Logan said. “That was literally the moment the mob set on me.

“For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands.”

She was eventually saved by a woman who put her arms around her.

In February this year, four years after the attack, Logan was again admitted to the hospital with the digestive disease diverticulitis and internal bleeding.

Her friend Ed Butowsky has said, “Very few people know how stoic and incredibly tough this lady is ... No idea the physical suffering she has been enduring.”

In an act of incredible bravey, Logan returned to the Middle East in March, filing a report on Christianity in Iraq, just a short distance from an Islamic State stronghold.

CBS declined to comment on her new contract.

Before the incident, Logan said she had not been aware of the degree of harassment experienced by women in Egypt and elsewhere.

“I would have paid more attention to it if I had had any sense of it,” she said.

“When women are harassed and subjected to this in society, they’re denied an equal place in that society. Public spaces don’t belong to them. Men control it. It reaffirms the oppressive role of men in the society.”