Magdi Mehanna (born

Dakahlia Governorate Dakahlia Governorate ( ar, محافظة الدقهلية ', ) is an Egyptian governorate lying northeast of Cairo. Its area is approximately 3,500 km2. Although the capital of the governorate is Mansoura, it got its name from the ancient to ...

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, 1956-2008) was an Egyptian journalist and the founding editor of ''

Al-Masry Al-Youm ''Al-Masry Al-Youm'' ( ar, المصري اليوم ', , meaning ''The Egyptian Today'') is an Egyptian privately owned Daily paper, daily newspaper that was first published in June 2004. It is published in Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic as is it ...

'' newspaper, where he authored a column entitled "In the Forbidden Zone." He also presented a

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with the same name on Dream TV. Before that, he worked as a reporter and columnist for the leftist '' Al-Ahaly'' and the

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''.

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1957 births 2008 deaths Cairo University alumni Egyptian journalists 20th-century journalists {{Egypt-bio-stub