About Mostafa Amin Mustafa Amin (Arabic: مصطفى أمين‎) (born February 21, 1914 in Cairo, died April 13, 1997 in Cairo) was, for decades, the best-known columnist and journalist in the Middle East. Amin is widely regarded as one of the Arab world's most influential intellectual figures. As the 1944 founder of the Akhbar El Yom newspaper organization, he is also seen as one of the fathers of modern Arab journalism. He died in Cairo. In 1944 he took the post as editor of El-ethnin , with his twin brother Ali Amin they launched the Saturday weekly paper Akhbar-el-Yom. Based on the style of American Sunday papers, it still boasts the largest circulation of any weekly paper in the Middle East and the Arabic-speaking world. Four years later the two brothers launched the daily Al-Akhbar, which some 50 years on is the most popular daily newspaper in the Arabic- speaking world, again with the largest circulation. Within two years, the Akhbar el-Yom group took over Akher Sa'a, then in 1951 founded two weeklies, Akher Lahza and Al-Guil, a colour magazine for the young