*He used to write news and it became news..*
We continue with the story of the great journalist, the late Hamdi Nasr, who passed away the day before yesterday. He is a man who came to us and showed great professional success in all journalistic fields and its professor. He is a diverse journalistic school to be emulated. One of the things that I will never forget is that I was close to him and consulted him a lot as he had extensive experience. May God have mercy on him, I had many encounters with him. What a beautiful time he lived with wonderful memories and fragrant stories from and about our beautiful and honorable past, as he contributed to writing about the men of the nation. He is the comprehensive journalist who excelled in all branches of specializations. Before that, he was the second head of the sports section in Al-Ittihad newspaper in 1981. I lived with him during my studies at the university in Al Ain, where I was a correspondent for the newspaper at the time, and he was the head of the sports section. On every occasion he appeared, “Abu Muhammad is counting on us,” poems in Nabati poetry as he is one of the original Bedouin inhabitants of Sinai. I remember his poem at the ceremony honoring the pioneers of sports journalism, which was held by the Sports Media Association and hosted by Al-Nasr Club in May of the year 2015, which coincided with the 70th anniversary of the founding of the first club in the country. For your information, he represented us in the General Assembly of the Asian Sports Press Union, which was held in Thailand in 1978, and Kuwait won the presidency through Abdul Mohsen Al-Hussaini, as he was accompanying the Olympic delegation to the Asian Games. Such pens, which worked hard, sincerely and devotedly, are not repeated. They worked in a difficult time, when the capabilities that we see today in our press were not available. They dug into the rock, made an effort and were the basis for the development of sports journalism. The credit goes to the generation of values and principles. The documentary works that the late Hamdi presented to the country, we hope that today’s generation will read them. I remember the late colleague, the private one-on-one interview that he conducted at that time in Al-Ittihad newspaper with colleague Yasser Abdul Latif, where they conducted the first press interview of its kind in the royal plane of the late Prince Faisal bin Fahd, on the grounds of the Amiri Airport in Abu Dhabi, during an inspection tour of Zayed Sports City Stadium, before the start of the sixth Gulf Cup competitions, in the year 82
He used to write news and became news
