Below is google translation of a piece for me that was published in Arabic in Almajalla Arabic website, and here is the link
http://www.majalla.com/arb/2013/01/article55241840
By: Bakir Oweida
In a career day and evening, obliges me predestination to memories Tohemena routes daily preoccupations they are folded over the years. Suddenly, it opens Claridge Hotel concierge door open nets memory in awareness CSS store. Adlv lobby Almabak perfume history, seeking some warmth after the sting Actoat London in cold January night, I feel frost December II England يوجع backbone body from head to toes, if a page of facts career journalist whisper urgently, as if she were screaming: Do not Remember Me?
Evening Wednesday, January 16, 2013 I was in Claridge’s, to attend a reception called Prince Faisal bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, Chairman of the Saudi Research and Marketing, which lah King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz days before (Monday) of the Principality of Medina.
The concert was in honor of Tariq Hamid, on the occasion of his departure site editor-in-chief “Middle East” and move the responsibility of chairing the liberalization of international Arab newspaper to Adel al, as of the first of the month. A nice gesture, and a beautiful tribute, deserve all the appreciation.
In the entrance to the inside saloon French, where the concert hall, glimpsed face to Ksmath familiarity remembers colleagues and colleagues accompanied, began greeting Khadija Bennis, which took years of secretarial office Othman Al-Omier, time his presidency for editing, and then moved to the office of Chairman of the Board time Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, may Allah have mercy on him. Khadija, the daughter of an ancient Moroccan family, affable personality, improved deal with coworkers and colleagues, as well as erudite reader to follow.
What I got the first corridor leading to the room so Talatna smile Jean Sangfeld, director of the Office of Adel al, and you’re late for the start of the reception, sped the pace a bit, and then took the initiative to apologize in advance. I know Ms. recent Sangfeld, however, quickly clear to those who offset for the first time, as happened to me last summer, Capacity culture, and the depth of management expertise, as well as the kindness of her personality.
Seemed clear, inside the hall, any of the characters is heading to each of the ceremony for the purpose of continued peace and thanks for the invitation. It had been an order of fitness, and he was not difficult to recognize the place and standing amid a combination legions of guests, emir Faisal bin Salman, a distinctive stature, as his father, Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz. And not characterized by human height including passport for attributes person, such as name and eye color, place of birth and history, but what is it, he or she is, of Mruat and work, at the private level before, too often from the same chivalry and nobility with family and properties , was also in the behavior towards society as a whole, and more broadly about the world.
On a personal level, I would say what I said because I sensed that chivalry and the nobility itself, and the simplest directory, it’s just simply instinct that it Mount both had a high degree of Creation: A good word, no more, no less, and I do not doubt that many others, know more than me, have said before me, and tell me now, I am not alone in this view.
Htaht away, apologized, is a codification of the Code, not the news, but completely failed to convince a major, whatever the justification, leave what I wrote for publication, so I go back to the ceremony.
The attendance of guests gathering of striking, the diversity of bringing together a wide variety included diplomats, economists, intellectuals, and journalists from different nationalities, as well as attendance of household workers in the Arab Press House London Holborn sailors. Of the ring to the circle, talking up your year, shuttling between journalism and politics, and this in the House of Commons if every reception. And jokes so they provide occasions for each eye observant journalist fertile material, especially when it comes to editors sociology, or what is called in newspapers West columns rumors GOSSIP
If you want to turn this blog into something like this journalist, recorded a few funny remarks, but each place of an article.
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Surprise question
Again, on the way to the hotel lobby, get ready to leave and ordered female employee Astodatha, as others, coat and hat, returned weighs on my mind, to go back to the mid-eighties, فاستعاد Archive story revealed CSS, if my front follows: Here, in this same hotel, Founder of 1812 under the name “Meevartz Hotel” before selling in 1854 to Mr and Mrs Kleirdj, CLARIDGE, from here Name (Klerddz) Badfah S property, I visited Professor Mohamed Hassanein Heikal to hold a dialogue journalist with the magazine “Solidarity”, which was founded by Prof. Fouad Matar, and issued its first issue in April 16 / April 1983, and continued to publish until January 1991.
What that sat in the salon suite (at the hotel 67 suites and 203 bedrooms in addition to the two wings on the surfaces) even surprised me great journalist saying: Before you ask me any question I ask you, do you think he should have been established newspaper in London?
Right, I was struck by the question, as far as what surprised me. I remember I Ahtmit silence, looking for the answer, if Prof Structure Iegelna: you made a mistake or I was not to create a newspaper here?
It was a way out for me, inadvertently he or did not mean, because when Khirna between two things, easy solution for me, I said, as I well remember: if I am allowed our teacher, I can say briefly that given the importance of your name, your balance, your culture, your experience, your experience, then your relationships, in case you made a mistake and I got together.
Provoked journalist in the structure, and stimulate professor Mohamed Hassanein, he asked: How can, I mean er made a mistake and I was?
I said: missed the sense that newspaper owner, publisher, and editor, is a professor structure must be its importance, especially in terms of expected privacy of its article news reporting or documentation, and in turn, in the context of your eagerness to stay paper and continuity, and to ensure ads have, in addition to distribution in most, not to say all, the Arab world, you will have to bargain, what the English call COMPROMISE and this was not necessarily affect your name, your balance, and your relationships, so I was as it moved away from this cycle.
I still remind her well, those contemplative view of a great journalist and was based on face to grip his hand, and then said: begin, please ask.
Introduced to my question began mentioning the defeat of June 1967, if Ikatni angrily:
You Ptattabrha defeat?
I said: Sure, but why?
He said: No, no, no, a big difference between defeat and setback … etc.
I put (etc.) here to ask permission to stop, has been a long story, so standards codes, but the tale rest, and controversial “defeat” and “setback”, with Professor structure, perhaps in a blog to come, and the way the journalist Great himself, he wrote his celebrated essay ” permission of بالانصراف “, then returned يقارع through the written word, audio, and video.
Remains, of course, and certainly, I do not expect to remember professor structure something from all this, and right without the slightest doubt.
bakiroweida 