{One of the most famous and influential journalists in the Arab world, the Egyptian Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, has died in Cairo at the age of 92.}<\/p>\n
His name is most closely associated with nationalist Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1960s.<\/p>\n
Mr Heikal was the editor of Egypt’s state-owned newspaper, Al-Ahram, during that time, articulating the Nasserist ideology of “Arab socialism”.<\/p>\n
He also served as information minister and briefly as foreign minister.<\/p>\n
Following Nasser’s death in 1970, Mr Heikal was sidelined by his successor Anwar al-Sadat. And in 1981 he was jailed along with hundreds of government critics.<\/p>\n
He was released by Hosni Mubarak after Sadat’s assassination by Islamist militants later that year, but was kept at arm’s length by the president throughout his 29 years in office.<\/p>\n
But Mr Heikal remained for decades one of the most authoritative commentators on Egypt and the Arab world – as well as a historian of the tumultuous events of the Nasser area.<\/p>\n
Announcing Mr Heikal’s death on Wednesday, Al-Ahram said he been ill for three weeks, and had suffered fluid on the lungs and kidney failure.<\/p>\n
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi paid tribute to Mr Heikal, calling him a “journalistic icon”, while the cabinet said he had “massively participated in enriching intellectual life with his books, articles, political and historical studies”, Egypt’s ON TV Live reported.<\/p>\n
Source:BBC:[Leading Egyptian journalist Mohamed Heikal dies aged 92->http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-35595022]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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