Veteran writer Salah Eissa dies at 78

CAIRO - 26 December 2017: Veteran writer and journalist Salah Essa died on Monday at the age of 78 after a long battle with illness.

Eissa was the last secretary general of the Supreme Press Council, which is now replaced by the National Press Authority.

He started his career as a short story writer and a leftist political and social thinker and worked as a journalist in Al Gomhouriya newspaper in 1972.

He was the chairman and editor-in-chief of a number of newspapers and magazines, including Al Qahirah and Al Ahaly.

Eissa passed away at Maadi Military Hospital.