Egyptian author Lotfi El-Kholi dies after life full of political changes and initiatives

The Egyptian political intellectual and author Lotfi El-Kholi, 70, died yesterday due to his affliction from a severe pneumonia.

El-Kholi is considered one of the most prominent Egyptian intellects who was greatly controversial in his political life due to the severe change and continuous initiatives. One of his most modern phases was the international alliance for peace in Copenhagen.

Lotfi was born in 1929, graduated with a law degree in 1949 and practiced to be a lawyer till 1963, then he joined El-Ahram newspaper at the same year and became the editor-in-chief of El-Taliaa newspaper from 1965 to 1977 where he was responsible for foreign affairs in the Soviet Union.

He participated in establishing the leftist Assemblage Party and was appointed as the secretary general of the National Committee for Enhancing the Palestinian Uprising, and he became the leader of Asian and African authors' union.

He also joined the Egyptian communications with the leaders of the Algerian revolution at the end of the 1950s and headed the opposition campaign against the Camp David accords, then came his declaration of Copenhagen as a large transitional stage which his foes considered as encouraging normalization with Israel.