Mustafa Amin

Biography Mustafa Amin and his twin brother Ali Amin were born in Cairo, where their father was a lawyer.

Mustafa Amin made magazines for his family, neighbours, and schools since early childhood, and began reporting for the Cairo newspapers and magazines in 1928. He had a column in the weekly Akher Saa ("Last Hour") magazine by the time of graduation from the AUC in 1934. After his graduation from Georgetown in 1938, Amin served as editor-in-chief of Akher Saa for a year before moving to Al-Ahram ("The Pyramids"), the oldest and most prestigious Egyptian daily newspaper. During the 1940s, Amin served as a reporter and columnist, but in 1944 left his post as editor of El-Ethnin W El-Donya ("Monday And The World"), when he and his brother Ali founded the weekly newspaper Akhbar el-Yom ("News Today"). Within two years, they took over Akher Saa, and in 1951 founded two more weekly papers: Akher Lahza ("Last Trice") and Al-Guil ("The Generation"). Finally in 1952 they launched a daily newspaper Al Akhbar ("The News"). Amin and his brother were producing the five best selling news publications in Egypt prior to the nationalization of the Egyptian press by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1960.

In addition to his journalism, Mustafa Amin published autobiographical works, several novels, and also wrote film screenplays. He also lectured in journalism at Cairo University and the American University of Cairo. He founded the charity Lailat al-Qadar ("Night Of The Fate"), His twin brother Ali Amin also had two daughters, Fatma and Mona.