An Egyptian journalist was able to retrieve chapters from the memoirs of an Egyptian fighter who was martyred in the October 1973 war. He was held by an Israeli soldier who posted some of them on Facebook. The journalist led a long battle in the delta and Cairo in parallel with another indirect effort inside Israel to collect the memos. It is hard for the journalist to get to know the fighter who has the memoirs, whose death was revealed in the battle of the Dafarswar, and to his colleagues and his family.
The preface to the memoirs published by the daily Akhbar Al Youm today, for the first time this week, showed that the beginning of the newspaper's attempt to restore it was in September 2013 when the Israeli journalist specializing in Israeli affairs, Muhammad al-Leithi, accidentally read a communication page "A former Israeli soldier named Oded Baroun keeps a diary for an Egyptian soldier and wants to bring him back to him if he is alive, or to his family, if he has died," said Israeli journalist Jackie Khoji.
The memo added that the publication was simple, and that the Israeli soldier who was seeking to return the memos was not known to those who returned it, because he had no information about the Egyptian soldier except his first name "Sayed", and his residence "Tanta", not published in the publication published in September 2013 Only eight pages of notes, but also revealed the owner of the memoirs for talent, and a wide view, and the pages contained the names of four colleagues of the Egyptian soldier and their birth dates and begin a story for each of them.
The task of holding the mission is that this soldier is from Tanta, the country of the well-known mystical country known as Sayyid al-Badawi, who is named hundreds after his name every year, The position was released after the author of the journalist's first adventure, Sayed Mohammed al-Arabi, after seven unsuccessful attempts, which narrated - that is, the Arab - that Sayed was writing many shakil, and understood politics and literature, and paints, and that his full name Sayed Bastoise.
"After a year and a half of your acquaintance with the Arab, he did not reach anything new. He decided to publish his findings under the title" Kashkol tournaments held by Israel for 42 years. "He appealed to the Bastouisi family to take the initiative, The reporter reported that he had contacted him, which, fortunately, did not disappoint him. He was contacted by the brother of Sayed Bastouisi, Nabil Bastouisi, to open new horizons in the story.
The memoirs reveal that Nabil Bastouisi revealed for the first time that his brother is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, that he was martyred in the Delfressur. In addition to the memoirs in Israel, he left seven shackles in the family home in King Saleh. "The raids did not interfere with our preoccupation with food, but even increased our appetite," says the martyr in the chapter "The Chinese Farm" devoted to this battle, in a sarcastic reference to the challenge and disregard of Egyptian soldiers for the severity of the situation.
The owner of the memo reveals that after finding Sayed's books in Manial, he wanted to include them in the same manner as the Israeli soldier. However, his position, ie, the position of the "professional pre-professional" in his words, which rejects normalization with Israel, is an obstacle. By relying on a friend - a Hebrew translator and translator - a friendship relationship «Facebook» with Jackie Khoji.
It is noteworthy that the return of the memoirs, according to the pages, caused a wave of sadness again in the house of Sayed Bastouisi, despite the passage of years, where his brother, the seventeen brother Nabil burst into tears when seen.
"I have been working on restoring Mr. Bastouisi's memoirs for four years, beginning in 2013 until the end of 2017, where I almost lived (the martyr's life)," said Mohammed Al-Leithi, who is credited with collecting the notes. Through his friends, relatives and family, and his memoirs filled with many literary works, which indicated that it was the project of a great writer, where his memoirs included several plays and short stories, and he would become a professional artist paints in many ways ». "When I entered Sayyed's house, the paintings he had painted for the whole family were hanging on the walls and they kept them so far," he said.
"I tried to record this story in a book based on the will of martyr Sayed, who wrote in the memoirs that he has a lot to do after the end of the war, but he was martyred and his story remained in oblivion for about 45 years until he led us to write his story, I wrote his story for the public to read, in various ways. I wrote it at the beginning as a journalist in Al Watan published on three episodes. Then I recorded his story in this book, in addition to producing a documentary film that was published in conjunction with the great October Victory celebrations. Last, the motive of all this was the master himself, every thread in the investigation I was out with In restoring these memos I feel that the martyr is from his position to show me his story and bring it back to life.
The story of "Sayed Bastouisse" in the framework of its production as an investigation in the newspaper «home» won the second place in the award of the media club for excellence of journalism at the Danish Institute, and won the first place in the competition of journalism excellence Egyptian Journalists Syndicate in 2018, and was one of the topics that won the award Arab Press 2018 - Youth category.