Changes in major leadership posts of press foundations in Egypt
Egypt, Politics, 7/5/2005

The Egyptian Shoura council, the official owner of the Egyptian government newspapers, issued on Monday a decision for changing the chief editors and heads of boards councils for major press foundations in Egypt for the first time since more than 20 years.

News reports in Cairo said that the aim behind this operation is to pump new blood in these establishments, after heads of boards council and chief editors in these foundations had overstayed by several years the "retirement age in keeping their posts ( over 65 year old)."

The Egyptian Shoura council decided to appoint Salah al-Ghamri as a chairman for the board council of al-Ahram foundation, and Osama Saraya as a chief editor for al-Ahram daily instead of Nafe ( 72 year old) who has been the chief editor for al-Ahram since 1979 and its board chairman since 1982.

Muhammad Ahdi Fadel was appointed as the board chairman of Akhbar al-Youm establishment, Muhammad Barakat as the chief editor for al-Akhbar daily and Mumtaz al-Qit as a chief editor for Akhbar al-Youm weekly. Ibrahim Sadaah, however served as the chairman of the establishment board and al-Akhbar al-Youm paper since the beginning of the 1980s.

The Shoura council also decided to appoint Muhammad Abu al-Hadid as the chairman of the council for Dar al-Tahrir foundation and Muhammad Ali Ibrahim as the chief editor for al-Joumhoreyah ( Republic ) paper, after Samir Rajab ( 66 year old) ) was the board chairman and the chief editor of al-Joumhoreyah since the beginning of the 1990s.

Abdul Qader Sheheib was appointed as chairman for the Dar al-Hilal council and chief editor for al-Musawar magazine, issued by it, instead of Makram Muhammad Ahmad ( 70 year old) who assumed the two posts also since the beginning of the 1980s.

Abdullah Hassan was appointed as chairman of the board council and chief editor of the Middle East News Agency MENA in succession for Mahfouz al-Ansari who exceeded the retiring age for assuming the two posts ( above 65 year old).

These changes came two days before the supreme administration court is to consider two cases filed by journalists from the two Egyptian media establishments of al-Ahram and Akhbar al-Youm to remove their two chiefs because they exceeded the retirement age.

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