Cairo: Veteran Egyptian journalist Mokram Mohammed, a vociferous critic of the Muslim Brotherhood, has died in a hospital in Cairo, his family said. He was 85.
Mohammed was the elected head of the Egyptian Syndicate of Journalists several times. In 2017, he became the chief of Egypt’s media regulator, the Supreme Council for Media, a post he held until June 2020.
The Egyptian government mourned Mohammed, who journalistic career spanned around six decades. “We have lost one of the Egyptian press landmarks, who devoted his pen during his long, dedicated career to defending the nation’s causes with all sincerity,” the government said in a statement. “With his pen, he contributed to society’s enlightenment against a lot of misleading fallacies,” it added.