Egyptian journalist Abdellatif El-Menawy has joined Arab News as a weekly political columnist, it was announced this week.
The seasoned media executive joins a raft of other high-profile writers on the newspaper’s Opinion pages.
The news comes as it was confirmed that El-Menawy has also been appointed managing director of Al-Masry Al-Youm, where he is set to update the Egypt-based media group’s publications.
El-Menawy has a long history in the Arab media, having worked on the launch of several private and governmental news channels.
The media executive began his career as a journalist in 1982, and later joined the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, where he became head of its Cairo office.
He has also served as editor in chief of Majalla magazine and later worked as head of Egypt’s state TV news under former President Hosni Mubarak.
His assignments as a journalist have included the war in Bosnia and he has reported from Sudan, Libya, Algeria, France, Hong Kong and Germany among other locations.
In addition to his work in media, El-Menawy has published many books, notable among them being “Tahrir: The Last 18 Days of Mubarak,” and “Copts, the Church or the Nation?”
El-Menawy has presented many news programs through several Egyptian and Arab channels, and interviewed many leaders, presidents and senior policymakers around the world.
He is one of the several new contributors to the Opinion pages of Arab News. Other writers include: Turkey’s former Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis; Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU); Frank Kane, an award-winning business journalist based in Dubai; and Baria Alamuddin, an award-winning journalist and broadcaster.

Source: Arab News