Al-Ahram Weekly
11 -17 February 1999 Issue No. 416
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875
Lutfi El-Kholi
1927 - 1999
The first thing that struck anyone who came into contact with Lutfi El-Kholi was the aura of strength and vitality that seemed to radiate from him, and which was almost as physically conspicuous as the halo of long grey hair that, in his late years, seemed to run constant riot around a broad and powerful forehead. His most remarkable feature, however, was his eyes. His gaze, sharp and piercing, lent his already powerful and deeply thought-out arguments an additional force which might convince, or enrage, but ensured they could never be simply dismissed. "He just seemed too strong to die," said one of the many who loved him, learning of his sudden passing away last Friday. With great sorrow, Al-Ahram Weekly bids farewell to one of our organisation's leading writers, who had been a major figure in the political and intellectual life of Egypt and the Arab world for close to half a century
The first thing that struck anyone who came into contact with Lutfi El-Kholi was the aura of strength and vitality that seemed to radiate from him, and which was almost as physically conspicuous as the halo of long grey hair that, in his late years, seemed to run constant riot around a broad and powerful forehead. His most remarkable feature, however, was his eyes. His gaze, sharp and piercing, lent his already powerful and deeply thought-out arguments an additional force which might convince, or enrage, but ensured they could never be simply dismissed. "He just seemed too strong to die," said one of the many who loved him, learning of his sudden passing away last Friday. With great sorrow, Al-Ahram Weekly bids farewell to one of our organisation's leading writers, who had been a major figure in the political and intellectual life of Egypt and the Arab world for close to half a century
