
Coinciding with the victories of the glorious October 6 War, “Rose Al-Youssef Gate” publishes a “video” clip It was prepared by the Journalists Syndicate and published on its website. It includes the names of the military correspondents who reported the events of the glorious battles of the October War on the fronts of their newspapers, during the glorious days of the war.
The website of the Journalists Syndicate includes a documented report with valuable information and the role of the Egyptian press in the battles from the era of the ancient Egyptians until the October 6 War in 1973. And for the full details of the report:
"The Egyptian press in the field of honor"
Egypt has known the military press for more than five thousand years, that is, before others entered this field.
And from the pages of history we know The oldest military newspaper was engraved on two sides of the stone, and its editing was supervised by someone called “Ptah.” It was distributed to army commanders and a number of rulers, and the total number of copies reached approximately one hundred copies.
The Egyptian artist carved on the front of the newspaper the image of the Pharaoh “Mena” "Narmer", and around him were a group of prisoners whose heads were cut off and placed between their feet, And its materials included news of battles, memories of commanders, and the actions of soldiers.
The first Egyptian military journalist who became famous was the Egyptian commander "Woni" One of the men of Pharaoh “Pepi I” One of the kings of the Sixth Dynasty, he recorded the news of his battles on stone in a group of inscriptions on various antiquities.
Among the topics that this war correspondent dealt with was his campaign that he launched against Palestine.
A large number of Egyptian pharaohs and their leaders walked on the path, and the walls of temples and castles in Thebes, Memphis, Heliopolis, Abydos and other stories tell stories of victory. The Egyptians did not neglect development, so they later used leather and papyrus, in addition to carving on stones.
This page in the history of the military press in Egypt included the end of the dynastic era and the beginning of the foreign occupation of Egypt, but the stream of life returns again in the modern era to the military press.
"Egyptian Chronicle"
With the arrival of Muhammad Ali to power in Egypt, and the accompanying development that included all aspects of life, especially the army and the military industry, it was logical for journalism to appear Military campaign to follow the activities of the Egyptian army and its brave leader Ibrahim Pasha.
With the birth of the “Egyptian Gazette” newspaper, As the first Egyptian newspaper, it began to give its attention to news of Muhammad Ali’s army and its victories.
After the army reached 300 thousand soldiers and officers, and the campaigns and victories increased, the “Military Gazette” appeared, and was printed in print. The Diwan of Jihadism at the Beginning of the Levant Campaign in 1833.
Five ten numbers are issued monthly, as the references indicate. Then “Al-Qazata Al-Military” appeared, and the military press shrank during the era of Abbas and Said.
During the era of Ismail, two military newspapers appeared: “The Egyptian Military Gazette” and “The Egyptian Army Staff Journal.”
The first newspaper included the journalist “Abdullah Abu Al-Saud Effendi”, who can be considered the first civilian journalist specializing in military affairs in the modern era.
The first appearance of the Egyptian military newspaper was in “1865”,  Although this does not mean that the newspapers that existed at that time did not care about military news.
The pages of “Al-Ahram” newspaper were filled with With the news of the Turkish-Russian war, so did “Al-Watan” newspaper.
The other newspapers published by “Yaqoub bin Sanoua” also paid attention to the news of the Turkish-Russian war. Whether in Egypt or abroad, such as Abu Zamara, Al-Hawi and others, with news of the Urabi Revolution.
The most important military journalistic work during the Urabi Revolution was what was done by Abdullah Al-Nadim, the journalist and preacher of the Urabi Revolution. The man moved to Where the army was preparing to meet the British in Tal al-Kabir.
And among his newspaper, “Al-Latif,” which he edited while close to the military activity in the “King Othman” camp, Articles to arouse concern and challenge the English, in addition to describing the army’s revolt and the war battles. Cairo newspapers used to transmit war news.
After the British occupation of Egypt in 1882, the role of the military press diminished, and it was limited only to orders, publications, and bulletins issued by the Ministry of War and to some articles and research published From time to time in the newspapers of Al-Ahram, Al-Jihad, Kawkab Al-Sharq, Al-Diyaa, Mokattam, and Misr.
Most of these articles and research were signed by a "veteran" He is the Yuzbashi Ahmed Hamouda. In the year “1937”, this writer came out of his disguise and presented a specialized military magazine to Egypt, and it was the first magazine of its kind to appear in the Middle East.
"The Military Editor…and the Palestine War"
The magazine was registered under the name "The Army Magazine", and when the first rounds of conflict between the Arabs and Israel began in "1948", The Egyptian army and numbers of volunteers participated, and the need began to emerge for a war correspondent and a specialized military editor. Just as the Palestinian theater was a witness to the brilliance of the military journalist in the era of the Sixth Dynasty, it was also a witness during the second half of the twentieth century to the emergence of journalistic leaders. I practiced work and gained experience in the battlefield.
The banner was then passed on to new generations. These generations carried the responsibility honestly, and worked to the best of their ability for good military journalism.
Many are the efforts of the Egyptian war correspondent on the battlefields… from Palestine to Sinai and the Canal Zone to Syria, Algeria, Yemen, Sinai, and a third time in the Canal Zone during battles. Attrition. The front east and west of the canal during the October War. Syria and South Yemen as fields of operations.
In the War of Attrition and the Eternal October War, Mohamed Abdel Moneim, the military editor of Al-Ahram, was the only journalist who participated in the battle of the sword and the pen together. He was an officer in the Air Forces and Air Defense, and was summoned. For operations at the rank of major, he served as an officer among the ranks of the fighters, and at the same time recorded with his pen as a journalist the battles taking place. It was a realistic recording and an honorable role that was not available to anyone else.
In the plan to deceive the enemy before the October War, he did not The General Command found someone else to involve him in the deception plan with news published in Al-Ahram about the Ministry of Defense allowing officers to travel to perform Umrah. The command knew that he was an officer and committed, and spread the news without fanfare or boasting, and the enemy’s intelligence swallowed it up.
And during this follow-up. Two military journalists and photographers were martyred, namely journalist Bakhit Abu Al-Saud from Al-Massa newspaper, and photographer Hassan Abdel Qader from Al-Jumhuriya newspaper.
Others were injured by enemy fire, including Salah Qabaya, the war correspondent for Al-Akhbar newspaper, in the theater of operations. In Yemen, many of them participated in the operations in one way or another. Jamal Hamdi “Rosa Al-Youssef” was A prominent role during the revolution that broke out in Aden against the British occupation forces.
Ahmed Youssef, head of the photography department at Al-Akhbar newspaper, Antoine Al-Bir, photographer at Al-Ahram, and Salah Hilal, head of the investigations department at Al-Ahram, also lived under the Israeli siege. In the city of Al-Arish in June “ 1967”.
Abdo Mubasher from Al-Ahram also participated in operations behind enemy lines in Sinai, with Egyptian commando units, led by Ibrahim Al-Rifai.
He was the only civilian and journalist who volunteered to play this national role.
The record includes dozens of works for everyone whom God wanted to specialize in military journalism, each of them before working under The umbrella of danger, to perform his role faithfully to serve the nation and the reader.
The Egyptian military editor and war correspondent grows as a result of the capabilities that his depths carry, and he always works in difficult circumstances, and often swims against the current. And the difficulty of the field. It is represented by the nature of the men who work with them and who learn that the secret is a word and a content that means everything in their lives, and the difficulty of the field is represented by death that lurks in the footsteps of those who move above it. Despite this, there are still those who choose this difficult specialty.
With all the difficulties, the military editor had his honorable roleEveryone who took this path played his role and they all succeeded in presenting military material to readers, whether it was news or investigations. Whether it was criticism or analysis of military operations on land, sea and air, they contributed to enlightening public opinion about the course of events in various fields of the world, and they followed development in the field of military thought and military industries, and the matter did not stop there. Rather, some of them enriched the Egyptian and Arab military library, which Many people complain of a shortage of books and publications.
The least of them were able to become military historians in every sense of the word through the scientific research and serious writings they presented. Some of them became on the list of the most famous military editors and war correspondents at the global level, and the October battle was a real test of their competence and capabilities, and they all passed the test, especially during the glorious October War.