Hosny Guindy: A tribute

Quiet flows the Nile

The editor of Al-Ahram Weekly since its founding in 1991, died on Sunday at the age of 63

By Mohamed Hassanein Heikal

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In Hosny Guindy's passing I feel a tremendous loss -- the loss of a friend, a colleague and a true journalist. As a friend he was loyalty itself, as a colleague, efficiency itself. As a journalist he was relentlessly steady in his pursuit of the profession and its higher values in ways, and at a time, when such a pursuit was perhaps not very profitable, and often frowned upon.

In Al-Ahram Weekly Hosny and his editorial team succeeded in creating a unique formula that far surpassed original expectations, combining local, regional and international perspectives and responding to different tastes and needs in such a way as to make the newspaper appeal to a wide readership, not just locally but abroad.

Hosny was a quiet man, in a very distinctive way. Quiet in the way the Nile flows quietly across Egypt, bringing life, good and prosperity to the land.

Hosny is not lost to us for while a man may die his example does not.