The late Sudanese journalist Mahjoub Mohamed Saleh died yesterday, Tuesday, at the age of 96 (social media sites)
Sudanese journalist Mahjoub Mohamed Saleh, described as the dean of Sudanese journalists, passed away yesterday, Tuesday, in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, at the age of 96 years.
The late Muhammad Saleh was born in 1928 in Khartoum, where he received his initial and later studies, graduating from Gordon Memorial Secondary College, which later turned into the University of Khartoum.
Journalist Muhammad Saleh began his journalistic career in the year 1949, and in 1953, Saleh, along with journalists Bashir Muhammad Saeed and Mahjoub Othman, founded the newspaper “Al-Ayyam”, the first issue of which was published on October 3 of the same year, and he held a number of editorial positions in it. . He also published the English-language newspaper "Sudan Times", in partnership with the South Sudanese writer and politician Bona Malwal.
Muhammad Salih joined the Sudanese National Liberation Movement, abbreviated “Beshadtu,” at the end of 1946, through which he carried out his political activity against the British administration. “Beshadtu” then transformed into the anti-colonial front and then into the Sudanese Communist Party. In 1947, he joined the College of Arts, and in In 1948, he was elected deputy secretary of the University College Student Union Committee, and he became secretary in 1949. For leading a student strike, Mahjoub was expelled, along with his two late leftist colleagues, Mustafa Al-Sayyid and Al-Taher Abdel Basset, from the college, according to Sudanese journalist and writer Siddiq Mohisi, who mourned him in an article entitled “The Departure of the Last Pyramids of the Press.”
Mohisi quotes the late journalist as saying, “I started journalism at the bottom of the ladder and got involved in field work as it was necessary for any journalist of my age to do. After I got involved in the political community and expanded my circle of political and social sources, I was sent in 1952 to Britain with a grant from the British Council to spend a journalism course.” For 6 months in the Daily Express newspaper and some regional newspapers, this was the first step in gaining international experience.”
With great sadness and sadness, the Sudanese Twitter platform mourns
Professor Mahjoub Muhammad Saleh, whose soul was poured out in Cairo today, let us lose knowledge, a courageous pen, and a rich memory in the history of journalism, culture, and media.
We extend our condolences to all the Sudanese people, to their honorable family, to their colleagues and to their students
We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return pic.twitter.com/o1XvJAu4Ky
- Sudanese Tweeters Platform (@SUDTwittForum) February 13, 2024
He continues, "I returned from Britain to apply what I had learned from the arts of journalism, especially accuracy in publishing the news and its elements, which were not known in the Sudanese press. Thus, I got rid of the constructive language in formulating the news, relying on directness in arriving at the meaning, and there I also learned how to turn the news into an investigation." Journalist, and what is the difference between a personal interview and a journalistic investigation?
Mohamed Saleh was known for his leadership positions in the Union of Arab Journalists and the Union of African Journalists, and won the Golden Pen Award from the World Press Foundation, and the Human Rights Award from the European Union. It is noteworthy that the late Muhammad Salih was one of the journalists interested in the issue of South Sudan, the issue of democracy, human rights, and the development of the journalism profession.
Muhammad Salih wrote a number of books, most notably “Highlights on the South Sudan Issue,” “The Future of Democracy in Sudan,” and “The Sudanese Press in Half a Century.” He was also elected as a member of the Sudanese Parliament in 1965, in the democratic rule that followed the Sudanese October Revolution, which overthrew the rule of Lieutenant General Ibrahim Abboud in the Sudanese army.
In an official obituary he issued, the head of the Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, described the late Mohamed Saleh as a symbol of the Sudanese press and a patriot who dedicated his life to serving national issues, interested in public affairs, and participating in a number of national organizations and platforms concerned with Sudanese affairs inside and outside the country. . He considered him one of the pioneering figures who advanced the progress of Sudanese journalism and deepened its connection with public opinion, as he put it.
Al-Burhan said that the late Muhammad Saleh was an impeccable writer and journalist, and one of the documented references in the history of Sudanese journalism, according to him.
The head of the Sudanese Congress Party, Omar Al-Dagir, wrote, praising “the history of the great deceased and his national and enlightenment duty in the prime of his life, and he lived faithful to this duty since he was a student at Khartoum University College, from which he was expelled due to his political activity against British colonialism from his position within the leadership of the Student Union.”
Farewell, Dean of Sudanese Journalism
Professor #Mahjoub_Mohamed_Saleh closed his eyes and fell asleep, his last nap, after decades of diligent work in the journalism profession, which he spent enlightening and preaching about a decent life and defending its conditions, leaving a void that will be difficult to find someone to fill in the foreseeable future.
The great deceased realized his duty... pic.twitter.com/sRlgasyEHU
— Omer Eldigair (@omereldigair) February 14, 2024
He pointed out that his famous space, “Voices and Echoes,” is a high-level school in the art of the journalistic article, as it was not chasing events and excitement or stopping at the crosshairs and margins, but rather was characterized by objectivity. Sobriety is concerned with the causes and roots - without fear or help - digging into the depths of opportunities and challenges and searching for a bright horizon.
Source: Al Jazeera