Shaaban Bilal (Cairo)
Scenes of sadness and collapse dominated the farewell of the Egyptian media, Wael Al-Ibrashi, who passed away yesterday at the age of 58, after suffering from the consequences of the emerging Corona virus for several months.
Today, the funeral of Wael El-Ibrashi, in the city of Sherbeen, Dakahlia Governorate, witnessed the tears and collapse of his family, friends and relatives, after the funeral prayer in Sheikh Salem Mosque in his hometown, where the late great had recommended that he be buried in his family’s tombs.
The wife of the journalist Wael Al-Ibrashi collapsed during his funeral, while the people of the city of Sherbeen gathered to bid farewell to the late with words of sadness, lamentation and tears.
Officials, media professionals and celebrities were absent from the funeral of Wael El-Ibrashi in Dakahlia.
Wael El-Ibrashi was one of the brightest members of his generation of Egyptian journalists who graduated from the Rose El-Youssef newspaper school, headed the editor-in-chief of the most prominent Egyptian newspapers, joined the media battalion, preparing for the most successful television programs at an early age, and then succeeded in presenting a comprehensive television investigation through the “Haqiq” program. On Dream Channel, the first and most popular private channel in the past twenty years.
Al-Ibrashi succeeded in transmitting the “Ten Evening” program on the “Dream” channel as well, a qualitative and professional leap after the media, Mona Al-Shazly, and he was able to maintain the “highest viewer” degree for the program, to emphasize the importance of purposeful media in linking serious viewers to the screen.
Al-Ibrashi surprised his viewers with a calm, sedate look on the “Channel One” screen of the official government media, to bring back the Egyptian and Arab viewers, in another proof of the ability of the sedate media to attract viewers.
Wael El-Ibrashi was born in October 1963 in the city of Sherbeen – Dakahlia Governorate. He joined the Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University, where he graduated in 1985, and joined his early career at the Rose El-Youssef Press Foundation.
Wael Al-Ibrashi had contracted the Corona virus in December 2020, and the virus damaged his lungs, but he had recovered a little about 3 months ago, before he had a health setback again.
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