Egypt’s Sisi delegate attends funeral of prominent journalist Markam Mohamed Ahmed

CAIRO – 16 April 2021: President Abdel Fattah El Sisi Friday delegated Major General Mohamed Fayed to attend the funeral of prominent Egyptian journalist Makram Mohamed Ahmed, who passed away Thursday at the age of 86, reported the state-owned news agency (MENA).

 

 

The funeral was held at Al Rashdan Mosque in Nasr City, Cairo, after Friday prayer. It was also attended by dozens of journalists from different media outlets.

 

Makram Mohamed Ahmed died after a long illness at the age of 89. Few days ago, he suffered a health problem and was transferred to a hospital. 

 

Ahmed was born in 1935 in Menoufia governorate. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in the Philosophy Department of the Cairo University in 1957.

 

He started his journalistic career as an editor at the state-owned Al-Akhbar newspaper and then as a correspondent for Al-Ahram newspaper in Syrian, then a military correspondent in Yemen in 1967, then he became the head of the investigative department at Al-Ahram newspaper, where he later assumed positions of assistant editor-in-chief and then a director.

 

In 1980, Makram was appointed at the head of the board of directors of the governmental Dar Al-Hilal Foundation, then the Editor-in-Chief of Al-Musawwar Magazine.

 

In the period between 1989 and 1993, Ahmed occupied the position of head of the Journalists’ Syndicate. He was a supporter of late President Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled by the Egyptians in the January 2011 Revolution.