Congrats!

I’d like to send a big MABROUK to Ad-Dostour labor correspondent and friend Mustafa Bassiouny, who finally joined the Press Syndicate with his colleagues yesterday.

In a relatively short time period, Mustafa managed to ascend the ranks of the country’s labor correspondents, and in my view, has become the top in his field with the best coverage of the industrial action. I call Mustafa to tell him about some strike going on, only to find him there by the factory already!! I ask Mustafa about a conflict in a factory, and just like a computer, he starts reciting the history of the factory, when it was built, how many strikes happened before, salaries of workers, bonuses, this, that, this, that… He’s a labor-encyclopedia walking on two legs. I envy him!

[Above: Mustafa in front of El-Sayyed El-Badawi Mosque in Tanta, during a trip organized by left-wing journalists to report on armed clashes between peasants and landlords in the Nile Delta Gharbeia province. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy, April 2005.]

Mabrouk ya Darsh!