Late journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal’s personal library to be transferred to Egypt’s Bibliotheca

Late journalism icon Mohamed Hassanein Heikal’s entire personal library will be transferred to Bibliotheca Alexandrina under an agreement Heikal’s widow signed yesterday, Ahram Online reports. “Under the agreement, Heikal’s books, personal papers and belongings, in addition to his desk, will be kept at the Bibliotheca on public display.” Heikal, a veteran journalist and commentator who passed away in 2016, had been former President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s advisor and ghostwriter and became a source of advice and wisdom to subsequent rulers and observers of Egypt.