CairoTuesday, July 05, 2005
Egypt on Monday replaced editors who have served state-owned publications for nearly 20 years.
The Shura Council, which is responsible for the publications, retired the editors above the age of 65.
Safwat Al Sharif, the council's chairman, said the changes were made to select young editors.
The shake-up saw the replacement of Al Ahram's Ebrahim Nafae, Akhbar Al Youm's Ebrahim Saeda and Al Jumhuria's Sameer Rajab.
The three are Egypt's leading state-owned newspapers.
Osama Sarai was named editor of Al Ahram, Mumtaz Al Qut for Akhbar Al Youm and Mohammad Ali Ebrahim for Al Jumhuria.
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