"Everything has an end, even dreams", whispered a friend saying goodbye to me at Beirut airport on the last day of three weeks I spent in Lebanon in the mid-nineties. Borrowed from a song of Fairouz, the sentence was brief and painful. I could not answer, as if everything froze inside me. My reply was long embrace close to my chest without uttering a word. Then I turned around heading to board my flight returning to Cairo.
That Scene returned to my memory this morning on the last day of the editorial work in Aswat Masriya (AM) which was established by the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) that announced last Saturday closing the website after nearly six years of operation. Since the beginning, the project was distinguished through providing a professional example for unbiased covering of the Egyptian affairs applying the international press standards of accuracy, impartiality and maintaining the same distance from all parties. TRF provided the site services for free to the Egyptian media. The site has succeeded in establishing loyalty with the public.
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