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...MOSTAFA AMIN PUBLISHERS OF AKHBAR EL YOM...
...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...
...hundreds of Egyptian villages, such stories from Akhbar el Yom are read by one literate person to dozens of illiterates who gather around in regularly formed groups called "reading rings." The papers are understandable to even the simplest fellah because the Amins and their staff have developed a clear, simple Arabic style that is already being imitated all over the Middle East. They live up to their boast that "Akhbar el Yom helps you" by supplying free legal help to readers, and pay their staff the highest newspaper wages in the Middle East...
...Yom Kippur in this year 5712 was drawing to a close. In the synagogues of the world the chant went up: Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord...