Dean of Journalists in Morocco, Mostafa El Alaoui, died at Rabat today, Saturday, at the age of 83.

Al-Alawi - born in 1936 in Fez (North) - is considered the dean of journalism in Morocco, where he started his career early in the country's independence in the 1950s, and issued a magazine "Al-Mashhad" that was widely followed as a successful media project at some point After independence.

He was kidnapped in 1963 and transferred to a secret detention center for the opposition known as Dar al-Muqri, due to the hostility of Ahmed Reda Kadirah, the friend of King Hassan II, his advisor and other officials.

He only found someone who had been ordered to kidnap him to be charged with being a supporter of the powerful leftist opposition represented by the National Union of Popular Forces, which included fierce opponents of the king's rule, led by the late Mahdi bin Baraka.

During his stay in Dar al-Muqri, Al-Alawi met with the ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, who was arrested on Moroccan soil during the support of the Nasser regime in Algeria during the war between the two countries, known as the Sand War in 1963.

Al-Alawi became famous for his distinguished relationship with the late Hassan II, and for his funny stories with him, and he told that one day he went to cover disgruntled demonstrations on the regime in the countryside, so the National Security Director came to him and asked him what he was doing there and he replied that he was covering the citizens' visit to a natural eye for the purpose of hospitalization called "the red eye" ".

However, Hassan II soon received him and addressed him by saying, "If you laughed at the Director of National Security, you wouldn't laugh at me, and if you don't tell me where I was, I'll give you all the details."

During Morocco’s hosting of one of the Arab summits with pure Moroccan funding without the help of the Arab countries, and during the press conference held by the king after the end of the summit’s works, Al-Alawi was surprised by a written question reaching him for his presentation in the symposium regarding who financed the summit’s works, and Hassan II replied, “Look at my minister’s face in Finance and you will know where to finance. "

Al-Alawi later discovered that the man who had been brought up by the question that Hassan II wanted to ask, he made a mistake in his direction and instead offered him to the director of the Arab Maghreb News Agency (official), presenting it to Mustafa Al-Alawi.

One day, Hassan II received, in a secret meeting, the members of the opposition National Bloc, and made them swear an oath to the Mushaf by not disclosing the holding of this meeting, but everyone was surprised by Mustafa Al-Alawi publishing the news in his newspaper, so he was not from the king except that he sent to Al-Alawi asking for the name of a swarm of news of the meeting Al-Alawi sent a reply to the king in a paper in which he wrote, "Sir, do you remember the day we met at the Bahia House in Marrakech and you told me that the respected journalist is the one who does not reveal his sources?"

Al-Alawi said that he was subjected to an assassination attempt in the early eighties of the last century, when a gunman stormed his office and threatened to silence him permanently, so Al-Alawi pounced on the man and directed the pistol he was carrying away from him, so the gunman soon fled after taking his weapon and was arrested later without revealing the full details of the case .

Mustafa Al-Alwi was a sworn enemy of the then powerful Minister of Interior, Idris Al-Basri, and he was critical of him through his newspaper.

On various accusations, it closed some of the newspapers issued by Al-Alawi, and the last newspaper he issued and remained until his death was the newspaper, “The Press Week,” which was famous for its simple style in dealing with media issues, just as it was famous for its last page in which Al-Alawi continued publishing his weekly column entitled “The Lost Truth.”

In addition to his great love for books, where he was known to be highly aware of the richness of his library, Mustafa Al-Alwi published several books, including "Journalist Diaries and Three Kings", and "The Oppressed King."