Word: akhbar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publishers of the largest and best string of newspapers and magazines in the Middle East, big (238 Ib.) Mustafa Amin and his identical (238 Ib.) twin brother Ali have rightly earned a reputation for being vigorous democrats and courageous reformers. Their weekly Akhbar el Yom (News of the Day-circ. 150,000) and five other publications hammer at government corruption. Yet just before dawn one day last week, eight Egyptian army officers armed with Tommy guns and acting in the name of reform swooped down on the brothers' Cairo home and arrested them. Readers of their papers were astounded...
...Amins have long believed that before democracy can come to the Middle East corruption must be rooted out. When they started Akhbar el Yom in 1944, they went after the violently nationalist Wafdist Party, provided chapter & verse to prove that it had been stealing wholesale for years. During the paper's first year, the government confiscated it 21 times. Their modern, $3,000,000 Cairo plant has been bombed and attacked by Wafdist hoodlums at least eight times and the twins themselves have twice been jailed. Last year when the Wafdist government proudly announced a plan to distribute land...
...slender King Farouk had come home from school in England (the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich), to replace his recently dead father, plump Fuad I. Wrote the New York Times correspondent: "Farouk has won the hearts of his people by his democratic manner." Last week, the independent newspaper El Akhbar of Cairo updated the story: "Today, history records the name of an oppressive and unjust King ... A King who used the influence of the monarch to flog the backs of the liberals, who imposed misery and slavery on the country and forced the country to call his tyranny justice...